Real Madrid: In the Benitez case, Perez decided to ride in the front line – Eurosport.fr

         Since Saturday, since the Real sank against his enemy Barcelona (0-4), Madrid speaks only of him. Him ? This is Rafa Benitez. The future of the Spanish technician merengue bench is written with a huge question mark. The issue will return insistently Monday at the stroke of 19:30 Florentino Perez will hold a press conference. The statement issued by the Madrid Monday lunch club does not specify the object. But Real president inevitably evoke the coach folder.
       

         The trend is to a holding Benitez, the coach that Perez was inducted last summer, replacing Carlo Ancelotti. Yet the Spanish press already imagine Benitez “condemned”. She already affirmed Sunday morning. She puts a layer on Monday, in the image of Marca. The Madrid daily explains that the former coach of Chelsea and Inter Milan can not lead this Real. That divorce is consumed with her wardrobe. Marca ahead 4 reasons:
       

•                . 1 Benitez is not “connected” to its players: “week after week, the gap has widened”
               
•                . 2 “His method of work is not appreciated” : Benitez would be too “obsessed with tactical work.” And do not count would “sensations” of his players.

             

•                 3. The “print” is incomparable with that left by Carlo Ancelotti sacked last June, a year after bringing the tenth League Real champions in Madrid.

             

•                 4. His open support to Dr. Olmo, the recent disputed diagnoses, undermines the slightly more: Players wanted an outright ban access of the locker room at the club doctor

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“The players do not support it, nor those who do not play or who play”

         Citing a close cloakroom, Marca goes even further: the rupture beyond the simple case of Benitez. It also concerns the technical staff. “ The players do not support it, nor those who do not play or those who play.” now, lunches divide the two clans. Unlike last season, “the technical staff eats almost alone”, writes Marca .
       

         Symbol of that divide, Cristiano Ronaldo under cover by the least little affection he has for his coach. Sunday, The Gazzeta Dello Sport going to recount a meeting between the Golden Ball and Perez. An interview in which the Portuguese would have posed an ultimatum: “This is Benitez or me!”
       

         Difficult to certify that this interview took place. Not likely, too, that Florentino Perez confirms at the stroke of 19:30. But the Madrid president knows criticized: it was he who installed the merengue bench Benitez this summer. He decided to ride in the front line. Presumably to maintain public confidence in his coach. By Saturday, results masked the fracture with cloakroom.