{"id":196014,"date":"2025-10-02T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196014\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:56:08","slug":"xabi-alonso-slammed-over-handling-of-real-madrid-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196014\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso slammed over handling of Real Madrid superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last 24 hours, there has been a lot of talk surrounding a supposed rift between Real Madrid vice-captain Fede Valverde and head coach Xabi Alonso<\/a>. The Uruguay international was an unused substitute during the Champions League victory over Kairat Almaty on Tuesday, having supposedly refused to play at right-back<\/a> in the absence of injured pair Trent Alexander-Arnold and Dani Carvajal.<\/p>\n

Valverde has since denied these claims<\/a>, but it has not stopped people giving their thoughts on the matter. And one person to side with the player is journalist Roberto Gomez, who criticised Alonso\u2019s handling of the Real Madrid midfielder when speaking on Radio Marca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has annoyed me is Xabi Alonso\u2019s attitude with the Real Madrid captain. Some days he is at full-back, others in the centre, others on the bench. I don\u2019t like that the Real Madrid coach makes that determination with such an important player, who is the captain as Valverde.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been years since I\u2019ve heard a Real Madrid player talk about commitment and attitude that he doesn\u2019t play, alongside Bellingham, seems to me to be an internal bill after what happened at the Metropolitano. It feels very vindictive, what he has done to Valverde \u2013 for me, it has no name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federico Valverde of Real Madrid looks on during the LaLiga EA Sports match between Real Madrid CF and RCD Espanyol. (Image via Denis Doyle\/Getty Images)Valverde has not featured as much under Alonso<\/p>\n

In the last couple of seasons on Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s tenure, Valverde was the one constant in Real Madrid\u2019s line-ups. He started \u2013 and usually played every minute \u2013 every match, but Alonso has been keen to manage his minutes in the early stages of his tenure at the Santiago Bernabeu.<\/p>\n

It had been a fantastic start to the season for Real Madrid, but after the Madrid derby defeat at Atletico Madrid, there are cracks starting to show. Alonso will be keen to stop these in their tracks as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the last 24 hours, there has been a lot of talk surrounding a supposed rift between Real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-196014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}