Meetings in small groups! Xabi Alonso speaks clearly about the situation in the dressing room
Article by Aurelian Botezatu – Published Sunday, November 30, 2025, 2:18 p.m. / Updated Sunday, November 30, 2025, 2:19 p.m.
Several Spanish publications have recently reported on a change in Real Madrid's dressing room. After the draw with Elche (2-2), coach Xabi Alonso reportedly held small group discussions with the players to resolve any potential tensions. It seems, successfully!
Xabi Alonso: “That's what I've always felt”
In the press conference before the game with Girona, scheduled for Sunday evening, from 22:00 Romanian time, Xabi spoke about the true relationship he would have with the dressing room and especially with the stars Vinicius jr and Jude Bellingham.
“I've always felt that the team is united,” Alonso said: “We all know what the goal is: to have a chance to win something at the end of March, April, May. We're together through thick and thin.
These things happen in football teams. We have a good relationship in our daily life. Despite everything they say and what some people want, we have a very solid dressing room.”
Xabi Alonso says he has a “good relationship” with Jude Bellingham
Apart from Vinicius, who booed him on the pitch in El Clasico when he was substituted, it was written that Bellingham would also be unhappy and have difficulties with the coach. Alonso claims, however, that there is no tension between them: “I have a very good relationship with him. He has the will to learn, to help, to become more efficient.
I like this type of player, who comes and asks questions to improve. We'll see where it fits best. He has that initiative and can play in different roles.”
Xavbi Alonso on Vinicius: “I feel sorry for him”
Vinicius? The Athletic wrote that the Brazilian does not want to extend his deal due in 2027 as long as Xabi Alonso is on the Real Madrid bench. But after the 2-2 draw with Elche, the coach didn't leave the slightest impression that there was any tension between him and the South American striker.
Xabi Alonso: “I'm very sorry that he had a goal disallowed. It was a well-worked phase and it would have been good for him to score. He has a tremendous influence on our game“.
