No Retreat, No Surrender - El Espartano Alvaro Arbeloa Manager Thread

It's annoying, but I want him to be a success. So if it works, it works.

 

I guess Arbeloa's speeches worked with Vinicius then?

Eveyone needs to reread the last few pages of this thread and the Vinicius thread. Shameful

 

Memories of that Mbappe fanboy who kept crying about fans in the forum lol. Think he got banned after a point.

 

Amazing how much recency bias affects the overall picture.

 

Best football we’ve played in a while

more please

 

Just start supporting the team.

It was so clear what Arbeloa was trying to do with Vinicius and the team and you guys kept shitting on it non-stop because you had a specific agenda. Hopefully you will join us now.

 

How do you know we aren't supporting the team?

How do we know you aren't RMRules?

 

It was beautiful offensive play. I haven't seen combinations up front like that for a while. I really think the team was shackled by Xabi

 

Join you in being so impulsive that you call Vinicius mentally challenged in one post and then cry incessantly about criticism of him? This forum had better trolls who keep at it for years like fierro lol.

 

Tbf

we had the rock and roll football comments early with Xabi too

I hope this was a sign of things to come and not a one off

 

We don't know what will happen in the future but the style of football is already a million times better.

The big difference is that the team spirit and togetherness is back. That is down to the change of manager. Big difference between a manager and a coach

 

If Arbeloa can motivate the players to enjoy sharing the ball with each other, the team will improve dramatically:

- make runs for each other
- use overlapping runners
- make the extra pass close to goal for tap ins
- take fewer touches (Vini, Mbappe, Jude especially)

 

The joy is definitely back in the players, they look like completely new players. Defensively we need a lot of work but hopefully with time those automatisms will sit in place.

 

Or it could be the new manager bounce.

Too early to tell.

 

True maybe I'm getting too excited but I don't care. We need some positivity. The amount bullshit the media has thrown at us recently has been exhausting.

So much for a "crisis". 1 point away from Barca and 2nd in the CL. And yes I know Xabi played his part in that early on too but we need to look forward now.

 

Forgot his name but I remember who your talking about lol

 

Huge win. Hoping Arbeloa can keep this momentum going.

 

He did the most basic smart thing a Madrid coach can do ,, stop feeding the hysteria, protect the matchwinner, demand unity, let the football answer. It worked.

The shameful part is how many people wanted the bernabeu turned into a punishment chamber instead of a weapon against opponents.

Those takes aged like milk left on a radiator. Hardly surprised.

Classic downplaying the joy like it's a temporary viagra pop instead of arbeloa actually unlocking the squad's balls after xabi's reign of blueballed tactics.

 

I think he set the team up as best he can considering the circumstances yesterday. Ceediy goes to him for the win.

I'll say this though, I hope he doesn't keep playing on Gonzalo at RW, completely a waste of his talent.

 

Wasn't Arbeloa all about "love and unity" in his first game vs Albacete too? And Carlo was similar in that trophyless 24/25. And we all know how some players repaid him.

What was actually different now is that a historic booing just happened on the weekend. Reminding certain players which shirt they're wearing. It's not surprising at all that some want to deny the effects of that wake-up slap, and pretend this was all down to Arbeloa handing out lollipops at team meetings.

However, let's see how long this new energy lasts. This was one game, and Arbeloa's 3rd in charge. A bit early to make statements on Arbeloa as a manager. It's pretty obvious he's brought on to patch the dressing room situation up a bit and hold on until Florentino's real appointee comes in. Doesn't mean Arbeloa isn't a temporary manager, but it also doesn't mean he couldn't turn out to be decent.

 

Monaco wasn’t won because fans discovered the ancient art of booing. It was won because the game state opened, the team executed & Vini played like a superstar again. Confidence came from performance rather than being jeered at home like a pantomime villain.

The narrative people spin for romanticizing boos like they’re some tactical innovation is truly hilarious.

 

Boos were partly due to embarassing exit against 2nd division relegation contenders. Superstars played like shit against players who earn in a year what former makes in a week.

 

Getting this team to raise the intensity during Champion's League nights is the easy part.


It's maintaining the same effort against the lower to mid table La Liga teams is where Arbs real challlenge is.