"Xabi Alonso was sacked in January, but the coach started to leave Madrid at the beginning of November. By then, the divorce between the squad and Xabi Alonso was already noticeable behind closed doors. A distancing that the day-to-day life at Valdebebas was taking to the limit until it blew up. "I didn't know I was coming to train at a kindergarten!", exclaimed the coach during a training session."
"It was not the typical warning to get his players' attention, nor was it a one-off outburst at work, it was a cry of desperation, of weariness and almost of boredom. Xabi had long been annoyed because his players were not following him in the demands he wanted to put on each and every one of the training sessions. Above all, in the tactical demands. Bad faces, poor attitude, whispering... Until he could not take it any longer and said something that was the beginning of the end."
Xabi Alonso was sacked in January, with his exit already beginning to take shape in early November. A clear divorce developed between the squad and the coach behind closed doors, producing growing distancing at Valdebebas until tensions exploded. During a training session Alonso exclaimed, "I didn't know I was coming to train at a kindergarten!", a sign of mounting desperation. The coach had grown frustrated by players not meeting his tactical demands, showing bad faces, poor attitude and whispering. That confrontation marked the opening of a wound with the squad that never healed and culminated in his dismissal.
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