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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Iyo Akimwalere.

Well, last week, David Ornstein said the managerial market is about to explode.

Karel Madrid, sacking Jabby Alonzo.

So what next for him and also what next for the club?

All right, with us today in the studio.

We've got James Orncastle.

We've also got David Ornstein.

And in Madrid, we've also got Dermot Corrigan as well.

So Dermott, let's start with Jabby Alonzo because shock news, man, last night he was relieved of his duties as real Madrid coach did you see this one coming

he was on the wire for a couple of months ever since a bust up with finisius in the classical last

october there has been murmuring so florentino pairs wasn't so happy with alonzo it looked like he had

ridden out the storm they beat at latico madrid in the super copa Saudi Arabia last week. They lost narrowly to Barcelona in the final. And even some people around the club thought that he'd done enough to stay of execution maybe to give a little bit more time to try and implement his ideas at the club. But not Florentino-Paris. He hasn't been happy with Alonzo. Looking back now, he was never

really happy with Lonzo. He needed to be convinced to hire him last summer. And yeah, the axe has

fallen and it's been handed over to our below and now to take over. This is Real Madrid and the coaches

don't rule the hierarchy, the only, well, Florentino Perez, essentially, at the top of the tree, and of course,

the players do. And I was at a dinner after the Real Madrid Arsenal Champions League game

in the knockout stages last season. And we were talking about this very subject. How do you

replace Carlo Ancelotti? Because he was perfect for that group.

And, you know, if you hear or speak to people who are privy to these sorts of things,

stories about Tony Cruz giving team talks and Danny Carvajal arranging the tactics with Cruz

for the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley.

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