Alejandro Moreno

I'm just saying.

It's such a typical move for an incoming manager when things don't go your way to say, guys, it's not on you, it's on me.

It's on me.

You're trying to buy some sort of equity with the players, and the players know.

You know, who knows?

Robert Sanchez knows that he has made a mistake.

So all of this, it's more for press conference material than it is for what actually goes on inside the locker room.

Look, while there has been a slight improvement from Levante as of late, this is still Levante going to Santiago Bernabéu.

And as I've said many a times in situations like this, somebody has to pay for the broken plates.

It's a very Spanish expression.

And Levante seems like just the right candidate for it.

Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabeu, unless they are at their very, very best, whatever that version is, there's gonna be a mix of

Boos, cheers, a mixed bag of whenever Vini touches the ball, is it gonna be boos, is it gonna be cheers?

There's gonna be a mix of feelings.

And those feelings will grow one way or another depending on the sort of performance that they have on the field, regardless of what Arbeloa is doing on the sideline.

On the field.

The players.

And they know this very well.

I'm not telling them something that they do not know.

If they want this stadium to get behind them, it has to be, and it's an early start, by the way, for Real Madrid, which is usually in this sort of games, daytime kickoff, they're usually slow to get going.