Bad habits: January 15, 2025

Bad habits at the Bernabéu

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Who is to blame? Who is praised for success blamed for failure. He who is praised for creating conditions of success is blamed for the conditions of failure.

harmful habits

Carlo Ancelotti has a tendency to allow bad habits. There have been reports in the past about his training regimes, most infamously at Bayern.

We would do well to remember the narrative surrounding his departure from the Bernabeu in 2015. There were complaints that he was a soft touch and allowed literally the best team in the world to fail. So I defended Carlo.

Tchouameni is not a bad player. I have my reservations about him, but none that classify Aurelien as a bad player.

It is irrational not to promote Asencio, who is actually a central defender instead of Tchouameni, who plays out of position. If Tchouameni has lost his form in midfield, let him fight for his place there. Whether Tchouameni will become a full-time centre-back that should be clear, but even then he should fight for his place there now that Asencio is there.

More bad habits

The Swiss army knife that covers the cracks of poor management. Fede Valverde’s ability to be in two places at once can make any coach look like a genius. Ultimately you are asked to do too much and against well-drilled teams your self-confidence and effort will fall short due to a lack of tactical structure and consistency.

Fede and Camavinga had to watch two or three players at the same time against Barcelona. On any given Sunday, Barcelona will look to overwhelm the opposing midfield. This is not a great idea. It’s almost as permanent as the color of your shirt.

The two had to cover spaces in front and behind as if there were no other Real Madrid players on the pitch.

These types of problems are not new with Carlo. These are bad habits; pernicious habits, covered up by the brilliance of players like Valverde who have transcendent moments and performances. Over time, that low playing percentage leads to average performances that result in average results and poor performances that result in losses.

Bad habits and their results

Losing a final is not new. This will happen again in the future and with even better performances. Once in a while a picture is worth a thousand words. Real Madrid wins and then loses and then is determined to win again, that is the nature of champions. But this image is an image of Real Madrid so far this season. This image is the result of Bad Habits.

Bad habits in the future

Carlo Ancelotti has a negative view of young players. This is obvious in the way he talks about them. People have praised Carlo for the development of Vinicius. Not Zidane, who stayed to train with him and helped his work ethic and protected him from the media when he was recovering.

Nobody believes Carlo would have done anything for 18-year-old Vinicius. Vinicius, 18, was not as good as Mbappé or Jude Bellingham. I still needed time.

We can see in real time how Carlo treats you if you’re not like 18-year-old Mbappé or Jude Bellingham. Your talent or commitment means nothing to him. He is so derogatory that he has said out loud that young players do not deserve minutes but the reality is that the young players of La Fábrica and even more so of the Real Madrid first team deserve minutes, they have been identified as the cream of the world. American football. They absolutely deserve minutes and your job as Real Madrid coach is to give them minutes and help them become suitable solutions for the first team.

Sick of it!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

There are teams that we laugh at for not being able to afford superstar players and turn to youth players or cheap alternatives. When it’s our turn everything is an injustice. We refuse to pay for a new center back because we suddenly control the market value of the players or what other clubs should charge. We discarded youth players for not being good enough to the point that at MM it was taken for granted that there is absolutely nothing at La Fabrica that can help the first team. To me it was nonsense and it still is. Fortunately I no longer have to argue because Raúl Asencio has done it expertly and he is not even the most talented young man in our youth categories. If we have to play with full-backs from the youth team, then we should do it. Necessity in this case becomes the mother of invention, so to speak.

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