Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and The Big Thing.

It's the show where we take a deep dive on a big story in the beautiful game.

On this episode, we're focusing our attention on Rao Madrid and their coaching situation.

As you're no doubt aware, Chabby Alonzo departed the club by mutual consent on Monday,

following defeat at the Super Cup Classico, bringing to an end a brief and slightly disappointing coaching tenure. We're going to look at what went wrong, why he was hired in the first place, what his friend Arvello Arbelo is going to bring, and what their long-term coaching plans are, if there are any. My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today. Hello, Taylor Rockwell. How are you? I am well, Ryan Bailey. I have not been fired unceremoniously by Round Madrid or had a forced parting of ways. So at the very least, I'm doing better than Chabialanto right now. Maybe that's in the future for you. Don't give up. You never know. I mean, at the rate, they're cycling through managers. You never know. Yeah, your turn will come indeed. Joe Lowry, hello. How are you? Hey, I'm great. That whole parting by mutual consent thing is so funny, Taylor. I totally agree. Like, there's just obviously not true. Like, if there was mutual consent, this would have gone down so much differently. Clearly,

Ra Madrid was like, hey, Shabby, if you don't say that you're leaving by mutual consent, we are for real going to fire you and drag her name through the mud. And then he has no other choice. But to leave, I find the framing of all this to be hilarious. As I understand it, Joe, sometimes it's written into the contract that if sacked they like can't dispute the PR around it so that it has to kind of, you have to go along with it to make sure you get your full payout. I don't know if that was the case here because Chabby Alonzo has not really towed that line in the way he's been acting. I don't know. I think there could be a scenario where Alonzo walked into the office. They said, we want to fire you. and he said, oh, great. I wanted to be fired, and they just hug, and then they walk away.

Oh, the Ruben Amara.

It's it. Alozzo walked into the office, they said, we want to fire you. And he said, oh, great. I wanted to

be fired. And they just hug. And then they walk away. Ah, the Ruben Amar. With it? Yeah. There you go. That could happen. Mutual content. Graham, Ralph and hello. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Yeah, I'm interested in how they, how they convey this whole story in the movie retelling of this season at Real Madrid. Of course, Sabby Alon so will be played by Jason Bateman, of course. They're the same person. Nobody's seen them in the same room. Correct. So I'm looking forward to that. Very good. Will it be all dark, like Ozarky, do you think? Yeah, it has to be. Jason Bateman will play the same character who's played in every single thing he's been in since Dodgeball. Brian Cox will be Florentino Perez. It'd be great fun. Why is Chabuanty Lonsor calling everyone pal?

This is weird. and every single thing he's been in since Dodgeball. Brian Cox will be Florentino Perez.

It'd be great fun.

Why is Chabby Onso calling everyone pal? This is weird. Anyway. That seems like a pitch for a movie that I would not want to see and then slowly really want to see. Similar to Moneyball. Like Moneyball on paper, I was like, I don't know how you make that into a movie. I think young and exciting manager coming into his former club to reinvigorate and revolutionize and then very quickly falling out. It's basically the damned United part two, isn't it? They can get the whoever did the Saipan, the Roy Keenan Mick McCarthy movie, which I haven't seen, gets terrible reviews and I can't wait to watch it. They can just get, it can be like a sequel.

It can be like true detective. They'll be a football and true detective, different cast, different story, and you just keep going round. I like that. There we go. TSS Productions has got another idea on the board. We're going to have to start producing some of these at some point. Tm. There we go. Yeah. No one can take it. It's ours.

Unless we give it to you by mutual consent.

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Let's get into it, shall we.

Jabby Alonzo fired at Real Madrid after 233 sweet, sweet days in charge.

A coach, of course, who showed so much promise in his tenure by Leucus and in the Bundesliga.

But his tenure here in Spain, or in Spain was marked by some big losses, I'd say.

The Man City lost, the Liverpool lost in the Champions League, the Derby defeat to Atlatico Madrid.

Being beaten at home by Celta Vigo that time was a bit of an indignity for the team.

But Graham, it's interesting, his win percentage.

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