May 25, 2015 Florentine
Perez announced in a laconic press conference the dismissal of Carlo Ancelotti. “It was not a decision easy but it's time to give a new
impulse to the team to conquer new titles “, said the white president of the Italian coach, whom he described as” sir and gentleman. “
Just four and a half months earlier, on January 4 of that same year, the manager's words to the coach had not had the same praiseworthy mood. That day Real Madrid lost in Mestalla (2-1) and ‘Carletto’ replaced Gareth Bale At 70 minutes to enter James, with the final result already on the scoreboard.
“To remove Bale is to attack me”
Some time later, Ancelotti himself revealed in his book ‘Calm leadership: winning hearts, minds and games’, that after that game “the general director of the club (José Ángel Sánchez, Florentino's right-hand man) called me to tell me that the president wanted to talk to me”.
And he continues: “I was told that Bale's agent had complained for this fact (the substitution of Welsh) ”. And to the question of the top leader what he was going to do about it, Carlo assures that his answer was blunt: “'I will not do anything'. From that moment, my relationship with Florentino Pérez she was never the same again. But he couldn't change the system when we were already in the middle of the season, ”he stresses.
Some time later, the newspaper AS published that Florentino would have uttered a lapidary phrase about this case: “To remove Bale is to attack me. He is a strategic player for us”. Ancelotti had signed his sentence. And he signed it in February 2019, when in an interview with Il Napolista, in his time as Naples coach, he detailed that in that match against Valencia Bale “I had to pass the ball to Benzema, who would have scored a simple goal, but threw. If there is something that drives me crazy, it is selfishness in the field. I took it off and there was the war. ”.
'Remote control' questions
The portal elconfidencial.com also published on April 12, 2017 information on the messages crossed between Florentino and Alejandro de Pedro, involved in the 'Punic operation' and responsible for the creation of diariobernabeu.com, a digital medium supervised by the presidency of the white club.
In said information, sms between Pérez and De Pedro included in the judicial summary of the aforementioned plot were reproduced. On January 16, 2014 there is an SMS in which De Pedro tells Pérez: “Presi, this morning the coach was asked, as I told you”, with a link that led to a YouTube video in which an editor of diariobernabeu.com asked Ancelotti: “Is it an excessive luxury that Gareth Bale is not a starter in every game, as it happens with Cristiano Ronaldo? ”. Question to which Carlo responded, according to the aforementioned medium, with a laconic “good”.
In the aforementioned book, the Italian assures that he received pressure from the club “to work more“Alluding to the training hours of the squad, which according to some UEFA statistics was below the average of other 'bigs' in Europe.
'Recadito' to Florentino from Bayern
“I thought the opposite, I understood that the players should rest after a stage of injuries and fatigue,” the Italian justifies himself in the book, in which he concludes this chapter with a sentence that is not wasted: he assures that the club “I had more faith in numbers than in my work ”.
Perhaps for all this, Ancelotti left another pearl dedicated to Florentino when in September 2016, when he took the reins of Bayern, he declared in an interview with the newspaper L’Équipe that the main difference between the Bavarian side and Real Madrid was that “Here I have a president (in reference to Franz Beckenbauer) who was a player before and who understands more easily what is happening”. This Wednesday, the Italian will be officially unveiled as Real Madrid's new manager for the next three seasons.