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0:05Real Madrid have changed [music] head
0:07coach three times in 12 months.
0:19On Sunday, they lost the derby and they
0:22collapsed [music] exactly as they did
0:23under the other two. So why does this
0:26team keep breaking no matter who stands
0:28on the touch line?
0:36The result leaves them fourth, six
0:38points behind Barcelona in September.
0:40And they walked into that stadium off
0:42the back of a season with nothing in the
0:44cabinet. No league, no Champions League.
0:46It was the second season in a row they
0:48finished without any of the three. The
0:50three men in those 12 months could not
0:52have been less alike. Jabi Alonzo was
0:55hired as a system coach. Alvaro Arbaloa
0:57got the job because he already knew the
0:59room and was expected to hold it
1:01together. And Jose Mourinho arrived to
1:03impose authority on it. Three completely
1:06different theories [music] about what
1:07was broken here. FA and it's Ronald Dalo
1:11who lifts the trophy into the Barcelona
1:14sky.
1:15>> And the panic is justified. Two full
1:18seasons have now passed without a single
1:20one of the three trophies that actually
1:23matter at this club. Mourinho was handed
1:25a three-year contract [music] in the
1:27middle of that by a president who had
1:29just been reelected on a promise to end
1:31it. Every one of those theories was
1:33about the man in the dugout. And every
1:35[music] one of them failed against the
1:37same squad. Different tactics, different
1:39languages, different personalities, same
1:42collapse in roughly the same month of
1:44the season against roughly the same
1:46opponents. Because at this club, the
1:48coach is the cheap variable. The roster
1:50is the fixed one. Three managers in 12
1:53months. At some point, you have to
1:54wonder whether the problem is wearing a
1:56shirt. And Sunday contained one moment
1:58that proves all of this. In about 4
2:00seconds, almost nobody mentioned it
2:03because on the surface it looked
2:05completely ordinary. So what happened in
2:07the 53rd minute?
2:11Madrid was still level in that derby
2:13until the 53rd minute. Then a center
2:15back was sent off and Mourinho
2:17immediately made a substitution that
2:19should have started a fight. So why did
2:21nobody say a single word about it? Dean
2:24Heitson went off for pulling Giuliano
2:26Simeone down as the last man [music]
2:28with Simeone running clean through on
2:30goal. Grimmaldo scored the penalty.
2:32Jonathan David added another on the
2:34hour, his third goal in three matches,
2:36finishing a low cross from the same
2:38Simeone who had won the penalty minutes
2:40earlier. Rudiger got one back near the
2:43end, heading in a Bernardo Silva cross
2:45past Oblak. He had come on as defensive
2:47cover.
2:53But go back to the moment that red card
2:56appeared. Mourinho took Venicius Junior
2:58off and Argula with him. The most
3:00scrutinized player in Spanish football
3:02came off in the 53rd minute of [music] a
3:05Madrid derby and nothing happened
3:06afterward. No statement. Nobody briefed
3:09a journalist about it overnight. And the
3:11football that followed was the worst
3:13this club has produced in over a decade.
3:16Madrid managed 0.32 expected goals
3:19across the 90 minutes. That is their
3:21lowest figure in any La Liga match since
3:23February 2015. 11 years with Mbappe,
3:27Venicius, and Bellingham on the pitch
3:29for most of [music] it. Three of the
3:31most expensive attackers on Earth. And
3:33between them, they generated less than a
3:35third of one goal. Losing a man explains
3:38part of that and only part. Good teams
3:40going down to 10 still make chances
3:42because they shorten the pitch and then
3:44wait to break. Madrid could not do
3:46either. They had quality in every line
3:48and nobody whose job was to reorganize
3:51the other nine because this exact night
3:53has already happened at this exact
3:55ground with a completely different
3:56manager and a completely different
3:58system. So how similar were they really?
4:08Atletico won 5-2 at that same stadium in
4:11September 2025. Julian Alvarez scored
4:14twice. Alonzo was in charge and the
4:16result ended his unbeaten start. [music]
4:18So what did that night have in common
4:20with Sunday? Two things and both of them
4:23matter more than the score lines. The
4:25midfield could not govern the game.
4:27Atletico took the ball into the space in
4:29front of Madrid's defense and nobody
4:31stepped out to claim it. Five goals
4:33conceded in a derby is not a defensive
4:36accident. It is what happens when a team
4:37can be walked through the middle of the
4:39pitch as often as the opposition feels
4:41like trying. And Valverde was playing
4:43right back. [music] 12 months and two
4:45managers apart, the same player was
4:47patching the same hole in the same
4:50building. If you watched both of those
4:52games, you saw the identical picture
4:54[music] twice. A coaching quirk does not
4:56survive a change of manager and a change
4:58of system. A squad that keeps producing
5:01the whole does. Madrid have lost twice
5:03in the league this season. Away at Betis
5:05where Valet saved a late Mbappe [music]
5:07penalty, then the derby, and you can see
5:09what those two defeats have in common.
5:11Both came against sides that knew
5:13exactly what they wanted the game to
5:14look like and simply [music] refused to
5:16let Madrid dictate the terms of it. They
5:18have beaten everybody who let them play
5:20and lost to everybody who refused. put a
5:23real plan in front of them and all that
5:25quality has produced one saved penalty
5:27and the worst attacking display you will
5:30see from this club all season. Madrid
5:32are magnificent against teams who agree
5:34to lose. So the club had a problem it
5:36could see clearly and it reached for the
5:38only lever it ever pulls. It changed
5:40[music] the man in the dugout. Then it
5:42did it again. So what kind of coach do
5:44you hire to fix that?
5:55Alonzo arrived from [music] Leverkusen
5:57where he won a German league title
5:59without losing a single match. He did it
6:01with one shape drilled into the squad
6:03until it ran itself. That was the entire
6:06reason to hire him. So how many shapes
6:08did he use at Real Madrid? 15 in 19
6:11league games. That number tells you more
6:13about this era than any single result in
6:15it. A system coach does not need 15
6:18answers. A man resolving the same
6:20problem every [music] week needs them
6:22and he never lands on the same one
6:24twice. And the problem was always the
6:26same three footballers.
6:33Mbappe, Venicius, and Bellingham all
6:35want the same strip of grass, roughly 40
6:38yards of it, and they all want the ball
6:39arriving there. At Leverkusen, Alonzo
6:42had players who were signed to fit
6:44[music] a pattern. At Madrid, he had
6:46players who were signed because they
6:47were the best available and the pattern
6:49had to be invented around them
6:51afterwards. So Alonzo kept rebuilding
6:53the shape around them instead of making
6:55them fit one shape. A coach hired for
6:57his method spent 7 months abandoning it.
7:00He does not change formation 15 times
7:02because he is curious. He does it
7:04because the team in front of him comes
7:06apart in a different place every week
7:07and a formation is the only thing he is
7:09actually allowed to change. They bought
7:11the man with the system, then took the
7:13system off him at the door. He still won
7:1624 of his 34 games in charge, a win rate
7:19above 70%. And then [music] he made one
7:21substitution in a match his team was
7:23winning and it finished him. So what did
7:25he do?
7:36Madrid won a classicalico at the Bernabu
7:38in October 2025. Alonzo took Venicius
7:42off in the second half of it, which is
7:44the most ordinary decision in football
7:46management. So, what made that one
7:48different? Venicius did not sit down. He
7:51went past the bench straight down the
7:53tunnel and reportedly told people inside
7:55the club that he wanted to leave. Days
7:57later, he issued a public apology to his
8:00teammates, to the club, and to the
8:02supporters. He did not mention the
8:03manager. And you have to understand what
8:05this particular player represents inside
8:08that building to see why nobody
8:10corrected him. Madrid had spent the
8:13previous [music] year fighting a Bondor
8:15argument on his behalf in public in
8:17front of the whole sport. A club does
8:19not campaign that hard for a footballer
8:21and then back a coach against him 7
8:23months later. That
8:24>> [music]
8:24>> omission tells you exactly how this
8:26building works. The apology reached
8:28everybody except the one man who had
8:30made a completely normal substitution in
8:32a match his team was winning. Alonzo was
8:35sacked on 12th [music] January, the
8:37morning after losing the Super Copa
8:38final 3-2 to Barcelona. 233 days in the
8:42job. See that sequence as a rule and you
8:45have the whole club. The football
8:47decision was correct. The political cost
8:49of it was fatal. He took a winger off in
8:52a game he was winning and it cost him
8:54more than losing would have. So, the
8:56board decided the problem was that a
8:58foreign method did not fit the [music]
8:59room, which meant the next hire had to
9:01be somebody the room already trusted
9:03completely. So, how did that one go?
9:16Araloa was promoted from [music] inside.
9:18Madrid youth player, Madrid first team
9:21player, a man who had lived in that
9:22building most of his adult life. He was
9:252 days into the job when Madrid went out
9:27of the Copa del Rey. So [music] who
9:28knocked them out? Albasete, a second
9:30division side who beat them 3-2 in the
9:33round of 16 and the room split under him
9:35anyway, which was the one thing he had
9:37been hired to prevent. Valverde and
9:40Chumeni had an altercation at Valdabis
9:42in May. Valverde went to the hospital
9:44with head trauma and was [music] told to
9:46rest for up to 2 weeks. The club finded
9:48both players the following day.
9:50Valverde's own account is that he
9:52knocked [music] a table over and the
9:53story grew well past what actually
9:55happened. But the size of the incident
9:57is not the point. The point is that it
9:59happened at all in the week of the match
10:01that would decide the title under the
10:03one manager who had been hired
10:05specifically because he understood these
10:07players. 3 days after that, Barcelona
10:10beat Madrid 2 to zero and the league was
10:12gone. Arbaloa managed 28 games and won
10:1518 of them. He was gone by the end of
10:17May. So the outsider with a system
10:19failed and then the insider who spoke
10:21their language failed too. Both of them
10:23inside the same season with the same
10:25players in almost exactly the same way.
10:28One was told his ideas did not fit the
10:30squad. The other was hired because he
10:32fit the squad perfectly and it made no
10:34difference to the results at all. They
10:36tried a stranger, then they tried a
10:38[music] friend. The squad ate both,
10:40which left one theory nobody had tested
10:42yet on this group of players. Not
10:44tactics this time and not familiarity
10:47either. What was left was something a
10:49great deal older than either of those.
10:51So what was it?
10:58Professional
11:00top.
11:01>> Mourinho signed on June 10th for 3 years
11:04after a president had been reelected
11:06[music] on the promise of sorting this
11:08out. He is theory number three and it is
11:11the oldest theory in the sport. So what
11:13is it? Authority, fear, [music] where
11:15fear is useful, set pieces, a hard
11:18defensive base, and the referee treated
11:20as something to be worked on rather than
11:22simply obeyed. And he set the standard
11:24himself [music] in August before a ball
11:26had been kicked. But finishing a Real
11:28Madrid season without trophies is not a
11:31successful season. He said that with two
11:34blank seasons directly behind the club,
11:36his own last league title is a decade
11:38old now, Chelsea 2015.
11:41And there is one detail about this
11:44appointment that almost nobody brings up
11:46even though he lived it himself. He has
11:48already run this experiment at Real
11:50Madrid. In his first spell, he dropped
11:52the club captain Aika Casillas for Diego
11:54Lopez. The dressing room split. A large
11:57part of the stadium turned on him and he
11:59left at the end of that season. So of
12:01all the coaches in world football, the
12:03man now in charge knows better than
12:05anybody. You could name what happens
12:07here when you leave an icon out of the
12:09team. Seven league games later he has
12:11lost at Bettis and lost the derby.
12:14>> Is fit again after a muscle injury and
12:17he will be on the bench. The Canadian
12:19Jonathan David trying to keep up his
12:22>> and one more thing went on Sunday that
12:24should bother him privately. Before that
12:26match, Diego Simeone had a worse record
12:28against Mourinho than against any other
12:30coach he has faced in La Liga. Even that
12:33edge is gone now. The one man in Spain
12:35who could never beat Mourinho just did
12:37it in [music] a derby. So that is a
12:39system coach, a club man and an
12:42authority coach, three philosophies, one
12:45roster about 12 months. And all three of
12:48them walked into the building and
12:50inherited [music] exactly the same
12:51thing. So what is it that they
12:53inherited?
12:57Every coach at this club is handed a
12:59squad with quality in every single line
13:01and handed a squad with nobody in it
13:03whose job is to run a football match. So
13:06how does that happen at Real Madrid? by
13:08stacking rather than choosing over and
13:10over for years. [music] The attackers
13:12sit on top of each other in the same
13:14area of the pitch. There is no
13:16midfielder whose role is to own a game
13:18rather than cover for one. Valverde gets
13:21asked to do about three jobs at once,
13:23[music] which is why he keeps turning up
13:24at right back in the biggest matches of
13:26the season. He is the emergency solution
13:28to [music] every structural problem this
13:30squad has, which is a compliment to him
13:32and an indictment of everybody who built
13:34the team around him. Watch him for one
13:37full match [music] and you can see it
13:39happening. When he went off injured on
13:41Sunday with Lee Kangin's studs in his
13:43ankle, Madrid [music] lost the only
13:45player capable of covering for the gaps.
13:49[music]
13:57Masttoano, the one spare number 10 in
14:00the building, went to Florentina on loan
14:02in August. There was no lane for him to
14:04play in. And Corttois [music]
14:06has spent years making the structural
14:08damage look smaller than it really is
14:10because a great goalkeeper turns chaos
14:12into a clean sheet often enough to delay
14:14[music] the diagnosis. Take him out of
14:16any of the last three seasons and the
14:19numbers you are looking at get
14:20considerably uglier. Corttois has
14:22personally [music] been covering for
14:24this project for years and nobody has
14:26thought to thank him for it. Madrid
14:27found three coaches and the squad failed
14:30all three of them the same way. So what
14:31would the fourth man need to be allowed
14:33to do?
14:37A football club is fixable when three
14:40conditions hold at once and Real Madrid
14:42fail all three of them. So what is the
14:44first? That the roster can actually be
14:46rebuilt. Perez was reelected in June and
14:49his mandate runs to 2030. The man who
14:52assembled this squad has just been
14:54instructed to keep assembling it and the
14:57three players at the center of it are
14:58the least movable assets in European
15:01football. Mbappe is the project.
15:03Venicius is the brand and Bellingham's
15:06best position sits on top of both. None
15:08of them can be sold and none can be left
15:10out without it leading the news that
15:12night. So Madrid's stack rather than
15:15choose. And the cleanest proof that this
15:17is a squad problem rather than a mood
15:19problem is Alonzo's record. He built
15:21[music] the best attacking system in
15:23Germany out of one shape. Handed those
15:25forwards. He could not find a shape at
15:27all. He tried 15 of them, but the first
15:29condition is not what gets managers
15:31sacked here. The second one is so what
15:34is the second condition
15:38that the president will let a coach
15:40bench a star and survive it? Alonzo
15:43never even benched one. He substituted
15:45one and 3 months later he was
15:47unemployed. So why did Mourinho get away
15:49with doing the same thing on Sunday?
15:51Because a red card had just handed him
15:53an alibi. He was down to 10 men. So
15:55[clears throat] taking a forward off was
15:56arithmetic that you could check from
15:58your own couch. So the permission exists
16:00in one form only. A Madrid coach can
16:03take [music] a star off when he can
16:04prove he had no choice. He can't do it
16:07because the shape is better. And that
16:08version has been tested twice. It cost
16:11Alonzo his [music] job and it cost
16:12Mourinho one here 13 years ago. A coach
16:16here gets about 8 months [music] of
16:17credit and you can't spend it on a
16:19formation that needs a year. He is
16:21allowed to bench a superstar. He just
16:22has to get one cent off first. [music]
16:25So the roster can't be rebuilt and the
16:27bench can't be used which leaves the one
16:29condition the players control. So will
16:31they take a smaller job?
16:36When Hujesen went off, Madrid had 40
16:38minutes to build a second structure
16:40[music] with 10 men. They could not do
16:42it and the reason was on that pitch long
16:44before the red card. So what was already
16:46wrong? No player in that team holds a
16:48job that still works if the other 10
16:50stop doing theirs. The 11 were
16:52disconnected before the card, and the
16:54red card only removed [music] the
16:56pretense. And you already know this
16:58room's attitude. Venicius apologized to
17:00the dressing room and the supporters and
17:02left the coach off the list. The room
17:05apologizes [music]
17:05to the room, never to the man who gets
17:07sacked. This squad has now learned that
17:09twice in one season. It survives
17:12managers. The case for it is real.
17:14Mbappe scores at close to a goal, a
17:16game, and Huin is one of the best young
17:18center backs in Europe. On paper, this
17:21is a title winning squad. Paper is
17:23precisely what the last two seasons
17:25were. The [music] greatest team in the
17:27world, right up until somebody tackles
17:29them. So, there are three locks here and
17:31no manager [music] holds a key to any of
17:33them. So, what happens when the fourth
17:35theory runs out?
17:38They find a fifth theory. A coach can't
17:40install a system his front three won't
17:42play. The president won't sell his own
17:44problem. And that room has already eaten
17:46two staffs. The fix is one team sheet.
17:49Leave a star out for a month, say why,
17:51and survive it. Nobody in that building
17:54is allowed to write it. If they sack him
17:56by Christmas, who walks into a different
17:58job?

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