According to Marca, the decisions of coach Carlo Ancelotti will be examined during an interview between the Italian coach and his president, Florentino Pérez, after the new humiliation suffered (2-5) against Barça, Sunday in the final of the Spanish Super Cup. Real Madrid could also act on the transfer market.
“Debacle”, “collapse”, “shipwreck”… The Spanish press did not have harsh enough words to directly describe the performance of a Real Madrid in distress on Sunday evening, once again swept aside by its Barcelona rival, in the final of the Spanish Super Cup. A Real Madrid short of resources collapsed collectively against Barça and will keep a painful memory of this nightmare on television. The second this season against the players of the German Hansi Flick.
Humiliated, Real was no match, “not because Ancelotti’s plan failed, but because Ancelotti had no plan”, asserted this Monday morning the daily El Pais. The coach’s case will be studied, indicates Marca, referring to a high-level meeting planned in the coming days between the club’s staff and its coach. President Florentino Pérez and his right-hand man José Ángel Sánchez will meet with Ancelotti soon. In order to understand what happened and take appropriate measures.
Recruitment of Trent Alexander-Arnold still on the table
At the final whistle, in Jeddah, Florentino Pérez tried to give the image of a president detached from the result for the cameras, commenting on the very heavy defeat of his club with great lightness, as if all that mattered little , Ultimately. The reality is obviously very different, reports Marca. The manner, perhaps more than the lost title, was painfully experienced by Florentino Pérez, whose Real has just suffered a new slap in the face, two and a half months after being knocked down at home by this same opponent (9-2 for Barça in all confrontations this season).
What can Real do in the immediate future, other than hoping that the staff and players will be more inspired in the coming weeks, with qualification for the Champions League play-offs to be secured, and a La Liga title to follow? fetch? Real Madrid can act on the transfer window and intends not to remain immobile on the market, Marca understands. If there must be reinforcement, Real Madrid will study until the end the possibility of finding a new right-back, the profile of Lucas Vazquez not offering all the guarantees, we learn from the Madrid daily. The Madrid club could come back for Liverpool player Trent Alexander-Arnold, whose contract ends this summer.
