Real Madrid will be confronted on 19 August with Osasuna, the last LA Liga match in round 1 of the 2025-26 season. Xabi Alonso gets his debut season in the Santiago Bernabeu and is greeted with a great atmosphere.
Alonso has many decisions to make regarding the starting line -up. There are four new signing sessions and two senior players who return from Let -offs of long injury that insist to start the game.
Alonso spoke with the media prior to his first La Liga competition that was responsible for Los Blancos. Read on to know what he said.
Mastantuono
“The first time I spoke to Mastantuono, I was surprised by his personality. At that time I was very confident. He had no dizziness about the step to come to Real Madrid. Because he has arrived, that maturity and quality is noticeable. You can see that he is going to integrate quickly, both in the dynamics of the game”. “
Has the expected level been reached?
“We are taking steps. What level is difficult to measure, there is no thermometer to know, but we are going to take steps. I am sure we have a few more, but the most important and fundamental ideas that we already introduce during the club World Cup and now we have influenced in these two weeks. From there we will make the tour. It is good.”
Are you considering a way out?
“I count on all of us who are here. I want them to be one hundred percent, we need it. We need the necessary attitude and energy and I count on everyone.”
Competition in positions
“I am clear that it is a very good competition and I really like that in every position that we have two players who can play, who want to show that they deserve the position. Then I will have to decide. Sometimes I have to deal, but I think we have many double positions. Many games and we need that level.”
The match
Plan “as you say, it is already immobile. Our request was mainly the health of the players, to respect their period after the long season and to have a little more preparation and it would have been nice if we had received that support. In the end it was no more than the wish. Tomorrow we look forward to the stadium and for the people to enjoy themselves”.
The competition match in Miami
“I agree with the club's statement. At the start of the competition we all knew what the rules we competed were and if the rules have changed, this must be unanimous for all participants. At the moment it does not fit and all participants of the competition should have been asked earlier”.
Is there busy for Lamine Yamal?
“I don't know how much busy, but it has developed a lot in this short time that it has been there. He is an important player for both Barcelona and the national team and we will have to face him”.
Consistency in all lines
“It is a matter of all lines that are aware. It is clearly important that the strikers are not hung on the laps; not only those names, but all those who are going to play in those positions. But in the same way as we attack the defense line, then attack each other, the laps are usually more difficult or with larger distances. Nowadays it is very important to be on the height.
Promise the fans
“I am more a doer than a saying, promising instead of doing football, usually does not work. We work and people are enthusiastic, that is being observed. We are also looking forward to it, we want to start this new project, with new players, a new coach that we have in the stadium. We have to earn it and we want to walk where we can get in May.”
The team
Boss “It must be natural, intrinsic, it must come from them organic. We have communicative players who are contagious and who make their place in a short time. That is very important to make everything more connected. When there is communication, the partner helps himself. That is no more than the leader it is more to be, but he is more than a natural way.”
Referee
“We start the season now and we will see how it goes. Hopefully we don't have to talk too much about the referees and I don't want to talk too quickly.”
Rodrygo
“There are many rumors in the summer, but I have seen him well, I count on everyone. All that I count what I want to feel for for the team, for the team and I want it to be 100% and that is what worries me now and occupies me now.”
Mallorca-Barcelona controversy
“I think it's not up to me to comment on what happens in other games. I heard what Jagoba Arrasate said and I think he explained it very well.”
Mastantuono's contribution
“Yes, he can get minutes. It will offer quality and energy, it has been committed. Defensively he has a good momentum, in the short time I have seen that he has that Argentinian spirit, warrior and then he has quality. He is combative and has a spectacular left foot both of set pieces and in the last pass; his definition is very good and he is young.
Will Brahim have minutes?
“I saw him well, I already knew him how different he can be, how he understands the position, he knows how to generate different things, how he relates well to his teammates. In short spaces he is very good, he is ambidexter, he defines very well.
Mastantuono's favorite player
“I can see that it makes sense that his favorite player is Messi; being Argentinian and being left is no surprise for me.”
The memory he has of the fans
“The memory I have was very good. I even came back to play for Bayern in a Champions League match and the relationship was good, I felt the affection. Now the role is different, but I am expected, motivated and enthusiastic to feel that connection with people again. Time is over.