Real Madrid’s ‘real problem’ may not be the bench – It is inside the dressing room

Real Madrid’s ‘real problem’ may not be the bench – It is inside the dressing room At some point, patterns stop being coincidental and start becoming reality. For Real Madrid, another trophyless season is forcing a difficult but necessary question: Is the problem really the managers, or something much deeper? In less than 12 months, the club has already cycled through three managers, and now even Alvaro Arbeloa finds his future hanging in the balance .

If he departs, which is a certainty, he will become the third managerial casualty in a single year, meaning by the summer, the team will have its fourth manager in nearly a year. This is a statistic that points towards instability at a structural level rather than isolated failures. Mbappe’s arrival and further destruction When different managers fail under similar circumstances, attention inevitably shifts towards the players.

In that context, the arrival of Kylian Mbappe appears to have been a turning point, but not necessarily in the way many expected. On paper, signing one of the world’s best players should elevate a squad. Instead, it seems to have disrupted an already delicate balance.

Before Mbappe’s arrival, the hierarchy within the squad was at its peak. Players like Vinicius Jr. and Jude Bellingham were naturally emerging as leaders, driving the team forward through strong performance.