Another episode has been revealed that reveals the atmosphere in the Real Madrid dressing room this season, involving Álvaro Carreras and coach Álvaro Arbeloa. And it all started in the Whites’ first meeting this season with Benfica.
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The situation was told by José Félix Díaz, editorial director of the Spanish daily As. «There is the game with Benfica in the league phase of the Champions League, and in the following game with Rayo Vallecano, the only player in the eleven who does not repeat his starting role is Carreras, who did not even play», he said, with Valverde occupying the left-back position in that match.
After this meeting, there was a more intense exchange of words between the former Benfica player and Arbeloa: «There was a conversation, and Arbeloa ended up telling him: “Take the coaching course and then you decide who plays and who doesn’t. For now, I’m in charge.”»
At the beginning of May, Carreras was involved in two more controversial episodes: he couldn’t hide a smile when he realized that he was the third left-back in the squad hierarchy, for Arbeloa; later, in Spain, it was reported that Rudiger had attacked Carreras.
Still in the same intervention, José Félix Díaz sought to excuse Arbeloa a little, pointing to the difficulty of Real Madrid’s reality as one of the reasons behind the disappointing season.
«Arbeloa had disagreements with Carvajal, Ceballos, but Arbeloa is in a climate of total war. Objectives were not achieved, there were injured players, so it was not the time to bring someone with so little experience to a professional level, as he had only trained at Real Madrid Castilla for a few months. Arbeloa may have made mistakes, but he is not the only one to blame, this needs to be very clear,” he explained.
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