Yep, sooner or later. All I know is we've had a million coaches, million staff members, and different presidents but are getting THE SAME RESULTS. All this switching up does nothing but unsettle and make things worse for a club with the completely unreachable and ridiculous demands which fans have lofted on them. There is one constant through all this though. Just one, MD. They demand the impossible, and if you can't do it? "Off with your head". We will never have consistency with our management, we will never aspire for more than we have already accomplished in the past 5 years with how we are doing. They demand the damn near impossible, but fuck sleeping in the bed you laid out for yourself! Just throw a coach or a new player at the problem. Fuck patience! Do it now! now! Trophies! Galacticos! Team spirit! New coaches! Team chemistry! Win every match! Play attractive and cohesive, without consistency! Spend Spend Spend, all the while some how giving Castilla players a chance! Yes do all these and more! IMPOSSIBLE. They demand it, we always fall short due to their ludicrous demands and end up firing coach after coach. The problem hasn't been the coach at Madrid. It's the SHIT atmosphere. Firing a coach won't fix this. Oh and if we do, we might as well do an overhaul. That's right fire every part of management (Calderon & Pedja included), then fire every part of our senior team (force Guti, Raul into retirement, sell Salgado, etc). Then START THE FUCK over from scratch really instead of throwing a person under the bus only to get the same SHIT results. Bingo. However soon the lofty expectations of the fans will bring us another president, a year later another coach, and this twisted trend will continue. However there will always be that constant, eh Major? The most telling thing about our club, the fans, the management and so on is the fact that at the sign of the first real crisis, we folded like shit. Hey, things are always rosy when you win. It's when you lose your real character is shown. It's when a man is down, the man shows his real character and worth. It's not when all is doing well, it's when adversity strikes we can see ourselves for what we really are. How do we look, you guys tell me?
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/ed...971/spanish-debate-the-burden-of-the-bernabeu Goal had an editorail on the expectations of the Madrid fans. nice read in general, but... I hate it when the hournalist don't get their facts straight. It throws the whole piece they write into toilete if you ask me. P.s. I was not going to link the whole article just becasue of that, but it was along the same lines that youngstar87 so I did.
Just read Tomas Roncero's '7 deadly sins of Schuster' article and all I can say is wow. That guy is and has always been a incompetent idiot, who only God knows why he still has a job reporting anything. He is nothing more than a fangirl to a certain part of the Madrid base which he feels is perfect and does no wrong. However he's like a Sean Hannity, saying mindless rubbish regarding anything else. "Give this a read" WTF? Aren't you the same one who's been asking for Schuster's head for some time now?
Like paupers. Managerially and, right now, sportingly. Quite funny when you consider the name of this club is "Royal" Madrid. But history shows that this club has been anything but royal when it comes to keeping a coach for anything more than 2-3 years. I think the only success story has been Del Bosque. So much is expected from this club and each year it's the same pressure of having to fulfill each and every one of those expectations you listed...win La Liga, win CL, win the CDR, dominate your opponent in every game and do it all by playing attractive "Ooo Ahhh" football with star players. I think that's what separates Barcelona and Madrid from the big 4 in England/Italy. In Spain, it's just not enough to win and I don't think this mentality will ever change.
Let me say one thing. If i, or any every other member of this small Real Madrid fan community with a job, had been even half as much of a tit as Schuster has been in the past year, we would all have been without one. This is the same person that said "I don't know if I'll keep doing this for long, i just want to see if this is the right thing for me", on TV, after his first ever post Champions League match interview against Werder Bremen at the Bernabeu. If he gets fired, he only has himself to blame.What goes around comes around, and you can only use success as a way to save your job for as long as your success holds on. With the same thing in mind, Calderon can only save himself for as long as he can keep the Club in a 'solid' financial shape and delivers titles.Without that, the only thing he can show is him making a fool out of himself. In a way Calderon and Schuster are very much alike if you think about it.It is not that surprising that they both understood/understand each other quite well.
I just want to add that for those who say "firing the coach is not the answer", you are probably right in general terms. However, this is not a context-free experiment. We are not considering firing *the* coach, we are considering firing *this* coach. Put the whole thing into context. There are situations in which firing the coach works. I believe this to be one of them. The difference is that Calderon's is an elected, not executive position. Calderon should serve 4 years, and be evaluated on the merits of those four years, because that is the whole point of electoral terms, in any field. It is an absolutely crying shame that this man is being pounced upon because the team is incidentally doing badly, specially after the more than decent job he has done in the past two years (against by predictions and my vote, BTW). As happens in politics, the only reason to recall an elected official is if the organization they lead is in absolute, prolonged and irreversible shambles. This is not the case with us. Calderon has two leagues to his name, an almost complete renewal of the team, and a ******** up this summer. There have been RM presidents that have cruised by on much worse balance sheets.
Every word in your rant is bloody right. Never read or here something anything more precisely descriptive of the SH*T we tend to throw ourselves in year after year.
+The Basketball team has been doing quite brilliant as well(even though they didn't start well this season).
You read the article, it's interesting and well structured indeed. Then you move to the comments of who are supposed to be Madridistas only to find the same old crap ... Throw X out, get rid of Y, RM are not allowed to be 4th. In my opinion, fans and media are the most ridiculus elements in the club. Not the out-of-form players, not the weekly-changed managers, not even Calderon or Pedja. It's Marca, As(s) and US.
Damnit, what's going on??? All that keeps rattling through my head is laudrup calling Schuster a douchebag from the beginning. .
He's basically saying that he still believes in the team, the project and the coach and that they're just going through a tough moment.