Real Madrid does not contemplate the replacement of Carlo Ancelotti, who has a contract with Real Madrid until June 2023, a bond that has the option to extend for one more year. The club will not take stock of the coach’s work until the end of the season in the certainty that the sporting objectives will be met. Madrid maintains an advantage in the League Championship that makes them optimistic and has the Champions League quarter-final tie ahead of them against Chelseacurrent European champion.
Beyond the fact that Barça’s win has logically made the club feel very bad and that the coach’s approach is responsible for the defeat (among other considerations, such as the lack of spirit of the squad or the null success of Vinicius, for example) at the Bernabéu they are not going to rush. Ancelotti will fulfill his contract except for an unexpected debacle in the last third of the season. The pause and the confidence that will be given to the coach will not be given to the players. Bale, Isco and Marcelo, who are ending their contracts, will not continue in the squad, and Jovic and Hazard, among others, will be looking for a way out.
Madrid has memory and is grateful. He appreciates that Ancelotti gave up a three-year contract with Everton for a total of 35 million to accept an express offer from Madrid for one less season (with the option of one more, yes) and for half the money than he was charged in England. The only thing that Ancelotti asked for was that the clause be withdrawn by which any coach who signs for Real Madrid accepts that in case of dismissal he will only receive what is left of the season in which he is relieved and not the entire salary for the rest of the seasons for which he signs. Ancelotti lowered his salary and the duration of the contract, but in return he demanded that this condition be removed.
In addition to that contractual gesture, de Ancelotti appreciates that he accepted two challenges with Madrid: replace Mourinho and then Zidane. She did it in 2013 and last summer. But, in addition, he is also considered a winning coach with good locker room management. Something common to all technicians is reproached: trainer attacks. So far this season he has had two: when a plague of injuries led him to put Valverde at right-back against Villarreal (Carvajal was in the dry dock and decided on the Uruguayan instead of Lucas Vázquez, which has not happened again) and against Barça, when he changed his system and played with Modric as a false nine.
Those unexpected changes in the role of the players are what are most disturbing, along with the team’s lack of punctual verve, what happened in the first half of the game against Real Sociedad and last Sunday, in both parts, against Barcelona. But beyond these flaws, which are less serious and fewer in number than other Real Madrid managers have had, Carlo Ancelotti is considered to be doing a good job. But he must endorse it with the League title and, if possible, put the icing on the Champions League.