The transition from leadership to the exit slope is a process that other players have gone through, who tried to hold the position, just as the Brazilian now intends to do.
Nobody wants to leave Real Madrid. It is a historical reason that supports this feeling and is embodied in the expression: “Besides this club it is very cold.” The consequences of a departure, whatever they may be, affect all names. Cristiano, Casemiro, Benzema, Ramos, Asensio … even legends, like some of the names mentioned above, have a complex reset. That is why Rodrygo's attitude is to hold on to his number, his position or whatever it is, of course. Also because of the salary and the circumstances, which can hardly be offered outside of Real Madrid in its current form.
The short-term suspension of Xabi Alonso
Rodrygo has so far received public messages that do not go beyond the waiting time. “Nothing happens with Rodrygo. The World Cup Club was a different context, because of the competition it was. We can leave it behind. Today it was only one game, which is important this season and I count on Rodrygo, it is not necessary to read too much in the future. If he can respond with more certainty in three months. The air.
Even in the speech of the white coach, the decline of Rodrygo's stock in Real Madrid is perceptible. Initially, the Basque coach gave him a chance. Although it was only one clubworld cup competition for him to decide that Rodrygo would not be a player to include in his short -term project. He started against Al Hilal, the debut match of the White Club in the US. He did this as part of the usual 4-3-3 formation during the campaign in the past and where Xabi Alonso returned at the beginning of the 2025/2026 season.
“He had important minutes for him, and Rodrygo will be important. Everyone must be prepared, because in tournaments such as the Club World Cup, those who come as starters are just as important as those on the couch,” said the Real Madrid coach after that first failed start. His gestures in the reaction, however, suggested that he had not found the reaction he expected in the Brazilian. Then he barely gave him a few minutes against RB Salzburg, with the game already decided.
Rodrygo de Yin, Mastantuono de Yang
He had the opportunity to play at the end of the quarterfinals against Borussia Dortmund, given that the draw had already been decided. Rodrygo came up in the 86th minute, just when the game flared up, with a goal from Beerier, the sending of Huijsen and a penalty that undone almost everything that had been achieved until that moment. In fact, the red card shown to the Spanish international would be the beginning of the end for Real Madrid in a tournament where they left through the back door after the thrashing against PSG. Rodrygo therefore did not reach the comeback he hoped. It was also not a catalyst for the importance of other clubs.
At the moment Rodrygo is like Schrödinger's cat. He is just as much from the inside as Real Madrid outside. Inside, because his contract, which was renewed at the height of his career in 2023 and is valid until 2028, that is. But at the same time he is outside, at least of the plans of Xabi Alonso, for whom the goal against Tyrol did not serve as a sign of recovery in the preseason. Training sessions are decisive and on that hierarchical scale Brahim started in the 'pole position', although his limited impact in his debut could open the door to Mastantuono.
The Argentinian lives a situation against that of the Brazilian. He has landed on his feet and is the player with the most attraction, both for Xabi Alonso and for the white fans, who have already mentioned Rodrygo as transferable. Only a few sticks to the memory of the descaling football player of European nights who burst the white history with a brace against City, one of the many teams he is linked to. Although to date the only one who called, not a formal attempt, Tottenham is.
The loss of Ancelotti, his big lawyer
Other players went through the spotlights of Gauss's Bell. One of them was exactly the one whose Rodrygo would take the right flank: Marco Asensio. The Balearic player was never an absolute starter, a condition that the Brazilian managed to hold in, and paradoxically it was the start of his decline. Both functioned well as substitutes or secondary players. The Mallorcan eventually left because he wanted more minutes and an important role, something that was not guaranteed to him at Real Madrid, which according to Xabi Alonso will be controlled this year by the principle “nobody has a permanent position”.
Isco went through a similar situation and felt “that he no longer had to be there”, but he spent nine seasons through connected to the White Club. Because there is far from placing a player on the market to transfer him for amounts such as those of the Real Madrid to receive for Rodrygo, with a value of 100 million. Others could not even claim themselves to get credit for a possible signature, as was the case with Illarramendi. There have been several false bets in the history of the White Club, such as Munitis in the day.
Sometimes the revaluation was unexpected, with Amavisca one of those signing sessions with little expectation that became fundamentally with his participation. In the case of the Cantabrian there was a fundamental factor that also applies to the situation of Rodrygo. The left -hand player from Laredo flourished under Valdano, but when he lost his protection, his participation decreased after the Argentinian.
The big proponent of the Brazilian is exactly in the Canarinha. A Carlo Ancelotti who protected him and kept him at the beginning of eleven until the circumstances all made it. Now he plans to take him to a selection name with Brazil without pressure more than minutes, exactly what he did not do in the first list he offered, when he was aware of the form of Madrid's '11', he chose not to call him. A decision he will now make with Militao and Vinicius, to protect them and to relieve minutes.