Real Madrid have made their decision on the manager to replace Carlo Ancelotti when his contract expires at the end of the current season.
According to reports, the Spanish powerhouse have chosen the current Bayer Leverkusen head coach Xavi Alonso as the club’s manager for the 2024/2025 La Liga campaign.
Carlo Ancelotti is required to depart the Santiago Bernabeu outfit next summer following a report linking him to Brazil’s national team managerial job.
The former Liverpool player, Xavi Alonso has been doing excellently well in his first managerial job in European football with Bayer Leverkusen and he emerges to be a good coach.
It is unnecessary to say that the former Spain midfielder has not won any silverware with the Bundesliga club side at this moment and it will be difficult for him to secure any trophies with Leverkusen, notably, he has displayed enough capability to be evaluated as a very good prospect to lead Real Madrid shortly.
Xabi Alonso has been a first-team head coach for less than a year after he took over Bayer Leverkusen from Gerardo Seoane last summer
The former Bayern Munich midfielder spent six seasons with the Spanish giants as a player. During his time with the club, he won La Liga in 2012 and then the UEFA Champions League two years later during Ancelotti’s first stint at the club.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup winner called it quits on professional football after three years with Bayern Munich and managed the Real Madrid youth team before he took over Real Sociedad team B side.
The 41-year-old who spent five years at Liverpool has made an unexpected impact after he became Leverkusen’s head coach, guiding the team to sixth position in the Bundesliga and the semi-finals of the UEFA Europa League last season.
The German club side have made an excellent beginning to the new season. They are second to champions Bayern Munich only on goal difference with 13 points from their opening five matches.
The Liverpool legend also attracted interest from several European club sides with Tottenham Hotspur keen on his service before the London outfit went on to appoint Ange Postecoglou after Alonso put pen to paper on a contract extension in August that will run through the summer of 2026.
The former AC Milan player has secured several European major trophies in his career. He won La Liga in 2022 and held up his second UEFA Champions League title with Real Madrid in the same year along with the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.
Real Madrid won the Spanish Cup last season but settled in second place behind Barcelona in La Liga and were demolished 5-1 on aggregate by Manchester City in the Champions League semi-final.
Los Blancos have gathered 15 points in six La Liga games so far this season behind Barcelona and Girona after their perfect run in the league came to an end with a 3-1 defeat at the hands of city rival Atletico Madrid on Sunday, 24th of September.
What’s next for Carlo Ancelotti?
The Italian manager will be looking forward to bouncing back from their recent loss when they face Las Palmas in La Liga on Wednesday, 27th of September.
