Alvaro Arbeloa News and Analysis

Xabi Alonso did not last long as Real Madrid manager, and even though he was hyped up as the perfect successor to Carlo Ancelotti with experience as a top midfielder for Los Blancos when they won La Decima, his reign, in hindsight, was a nightmare. While Alonso is clearly an excellent coach and will always be able to boast about going undefeated with Bayer Leverkusen to break up Bayern Munich's record hegemony in Die Werkself's first ever Bundesliga title triumph, he was anything but a great fit for Real Madrid. In addition to alienating star players like Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham, and Fede Valverde, Alonso did not exactly show up as the master tactician that he was at Leverkusen, with his ideas both proving ineffective and falling on jaded ears. Real Madrid players are prais...

Real Madrid did not initially hire Alvaro Arbeloa to be a permanent solution at manager, but rather a stabilizing force with experience at the club who could smooth over the acrimony building up in the club after Xabi Alonso essentially treated the club's star players like a bunch of overgrown children. Well, mission accomplished. After being battered by Atletico Madrid in the first Derbi of the 2025/26 season, Real Madrid came roaring back and battled past injuries and adversity to christen the Santiago Bernabeu with a 3-2 victory over Los Rojiblancos in a thriller. And in the aftermath of the game, all anyone can do is wax poetic about Arbeloa. According to a new report from MARCA, via The Madrid Zone, some of Real Madrid's most important players are pushing hard for Arbeloa to be ...

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Real Madrid players know the counterintuitive truth about Alvaro Arbeloa and Xabi Alonso

5 Real Madrid stars are pushing for Alvaro Arbeloa to stay permanently