The club said the president will talk to the media at a hastily scheduled news conference on Monday, two days after the 4-0 defeat to Barcelona prompted widespread calls for his resignation and for the departure of coach Rafa Benitez.
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“I don’t smile with defeat from other teams, I smile with my victories, that’s why I don’t smile a lot in the last few months”. The important thing is to be happy day-to-day with what I am doing.
Asked if he stayed in the summer with a view to managing the first team in the future, he said: “I stayed because of Castilla”. I finished up feeling that there was something missing.
“I am quite stubborn and when I don’t meet an objective, I feel I have to keep on with it”.
Real Madrid fans vividly showed their dissatisfaction, frantically waving white “goodbye” handkerchiefs and loudly jeering. “I still have a long way to go”. There may be a clamour to usher him in quickly in the wake of the Clasico result, though. It’s true neither of them have been up to the standards of last season, but they are managed by Rafael Benitez.
Real Madrid have closed ranks and will back Rafa Benitez, despite the manager having reportedly lost the support of the dressing room. It’s also noted in the piece the Real Madrid stars are often left bemused by the tactical instructions the manager looks to pass on.
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Writing in an article for the Daily Mail, the current Sky Sports pundit revealed that Liverpool’s players used to insist that Benitez would have to change his ways of communication with his team if he were to ever move to the likes of Real Madrid.
