Another setback could mean the end of the line for the coach, no matter what the president says.
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The 43-year-old, who is now in charge of the club’s B side Castilla, said in AS: “Replace Benitez? That’s how Real Madrid works”, Balague said, as per SkySports. If I stay at the club it is to coach Castilla. “And I think it will be unfair as given the chance, time and confidence, then he can improve pretty much any side in the world, as he showed with many teams in the past”. “I still have a long way to go”.
The gamble on the Spaniard’s fitness does not appear to have paid off, with Ramos enduring a night to forget as Madrid went down 4-0. It is true that we need a positive result from Bayern, but that only has an impact if we win, so let’s focus on what we can do. Things are fine at the moment. Madrid had been leading the league and was winning games easily despite a series of injuries to its regular starters.
Benitez said Los Blancos would be giving maximum effort to recover their gait having gone 14 matches unbeaten before the defeats to Sevilla and Barcelona in La Liga. Pressure had been mounting since the defeat – Madrid’s fourth in the last five games against its main rival.
The contest for a Europa League place, by finishing third, will be between Shakhtar – which is away to PSG in their final game – and Malmo, which plays Madrid in Spain.
Perez, 68, acknowledged “we had a very bad match” against Barcelona, saying he understood the fans’ anger. Saturday’s loss left Madrid six points behind Barcelona after 12 rounds. But before the game, others had criticized him for playing too defensively.
“He has a good relationship with the players and he has a good relationship with the board and with me”, Perez added.
“I will do the best possible job for the fans”.
“It’s hard to put your finger on it, but Rafa’s all about team, he’s not really a fan of individual players, he’s all about his philosophy as a team”. He has never said anything about anyone, he is a good guy, all that comes out about me wanting to sell him, meeting with people, is people wanting to destabilise the club. What we have to do is stick together to keep on doing as well as we had beforehand.
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“Of course we are looking at all players – not just Ronaldo”.
