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#2 Fans need to be more patient with the coach
Real Madrid is a club so used to success that a stretch of 5 matches without a victory will be remembered as one of the darkest periods in club history, but is this really coming as a surprise to us?
Last year after the win in Cardiff, Zinedine Zidane quit the club claiming; “I spoke to the president to explain what I thought. I think it is the moment, for me and for the squad. I know it is a bit of a strange moment but I think it is the right moment. This is a team that should keep on winning and it needs a change for that. After three years, it needs another discourse, another working methodology, and that’s why I took this decision.”
His words ring true now more than ever. The club needed a revamp, and whilst lifting the European crown for the third consecutive year was definitely a historic moment, the same team was 23 points behind the league leaders last year. Over the last few seasons, the club has lost a lot of quality players and has not replaced them with players of the same calibre. Instead, they chose to go for unproven youth which barring the case of Asensio, Ceballos has so far not worked out so well.
This is a side handed over to a coach who left a lot to be with this club, with more issues than he could fix magically over just one summer. Our squad, whilst still one of the world's greatest, is now ageing, and adequate cover and replacements have not been made to replace the ones who are gone or those who are slowing down.
Before we all start pointing fingers at the person at the helm, we must look at the problems that were at the club before he arrived, and give him the opportunity to transition this club from what it used to be to what it can be.
