Xabi Xabi la vie

[Hansern]

Helps if you read his tweets in the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Or Herr Flick from 'Allo 'Allo!

 

[JohnnyRocket]

Xabi's always struck me as a thoroughly decent, down to earth human being, and real student of the game. He must have hated what he was dealing with over there.

 

[Modo]

And he turned us down to manage that pile of steaming shit.

 

[refugee]

Xabi's always struck me as a thoroughly decent, down to earth human being, and real student of the game. He must have hated what he was dealing with over there.

He can't be that thoughtful. Dreamy could have worked out he was going to have to deal with similar issues.

 

[Hansern]

View: https://x.com/jamesstatman/status/2010768469323624449?s=46

 

[tomasjj]

He can't be that thoughtful. Dreamy could have worked out he was going to have to deal with similar issues.

Do you think he called Rafa for advice first?

 

[refugee]

Do you think he called Rafa for advice first?

Probably sent him a letter made from cut up newspapers.

 

[tomasjj]

Probably sent him a letter made from cut up newspapers.

I once did send a black mail one like that to get a job.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Maybe We need to do the same with Slot.

Winning the title here with Liverpool > anything Xabi has done.

 

[refugee]

I once did send a black mail one like that to get a job.

Did you get it?

 

[tomasjj]

Did you get it?

I did. I got the idea when I was stoned as fuck, playing PS 1 with my friends.
We used to sit a whole night and smoke and play multiplayer racing game.

 

[Dreambeliever]

This simply isnt true though. Flick and Xabi had the exact same start to their managerial careers at Barca and Real.

Xabi has the 4th best win percentage of any Real Madrid manager in the 21st century.
So far this season his Real team was 4th for pressed sequences, 2nd for high turnovers forced and 1st for shots from these turnovers. All this with the likes of Vini jr and Mbappe being difficult to manage.
They are top for conceded goals even with all the injuries, so his defensive side of the game has been good.

No way this can been seen as a failure.

If you read all the stuff that happened behind the scenes you'd understand. Perez tried to force people onto his training staff etc.

Not being top of the La Liga, not winning the World Club Cup and losing a domestic trophy to Barca = failure at Real Madrid regardless of how unfair that is.
Nobody will ever look back at this spell and say it was anything other than a failed move for him. Well except you clearly 😅

 

[Dreambeliever]

To be fair. Thay dressing room is toxic.

Vini Jr, Mbappe, Bellingham, Rodrygo.. to name but a few egos.

Its well rumoured that towards the end Ancelotti just let the team do what they wanted and regularly had stars miss a training session or two.

Alonso tried to stop that, plus implement a more pressing system. Which the Real players didn't want.

Am I surprised it ended like this? No.
But to say he failed after half a season when Real are still in the CL and 5 points off the top is hyperbole.

Every man and his dog knew that before he went there.

And if you think being second in La Liga to Barcelona and losing a trophy to them is anything but failure at that club then I don’t think you’ve been paying attention. The bar is higher there than anywhere. They’ve sacked managers in the past for winning the league. Xabi was a failure in Madrid terms.

 

[Woland]

Winning the title here with Liverpool > anything Xabi has done.

That's incorrect dude. What he did at Leverkusen was amazing. I don't even like the guy but I've gotta respect him.