Manolas Smirk on Real Madrid and Barcelona

Kostas Manolas, better known as Barcelona's executioner, after eliminating the Blaugrana team from the top European competition in the Champions League last season in the 82nd minute of the match, has become a hero for Real Madrid.

The current Roma player has offered an interview where he talked about his future. The center has made it clear that if given the opportunity to integrate into the ranks of the Concha Espina set or the table of the Ciudad Condal, it would be very difficult to say no. 

When asked if he was ready to stay forever in the Italian club, the Hellene hesitated. "Well, if a team like Real Madrid or Barcelona arrives, we will see, because only Totti has been able to reject it, but there is nobody else who does not think so", he guaranteed.

"It would be necessary to assess the conditions but it is not easy for anyone to leave Rome, they have not called me to discuss a new contract or raise the clause, I have 4 years of contract left and I do not think it is so low", he explained about his current situation in Italy.

THE 'PLAN A' OF REAL MADRID IF YOU IGNORE JULEN LOPETEGUI

The set 'merengue' ignited the alarms with the defeat before Levante and before the classic with Barcelona.

Although Manolas took away from memory a nice ovation from Real Madrid. The soccer player before the shock only had praise for the merengue club. “He’s the best club, he has the best players, he's the best team in the world, and it’s no coincidence that he has won three Champions League consecutively, nobody has done it and it will be for nothing. Real Madrid has been champion, "he confirmed in a nod to the white entity.

Real Madrid lives high moments with its most recent results in the Julen Lopetegui cycle, which takes just a few months of work, but with which the 'meringues' have reached several negative streaks and begin to wander to half of the table.

The Lopetegui process did not start in the best way in the white team and raised controversy by the way in which the news was released just before the debut of Spain in the World Cup Russia 2018, still being the national Iberian coach.

Florentino asks for explanations to Lopetegui to mature his decision

If Lopetegui continues on the bench it is because Florentino does not want to acknowledge the mistakes made and is not convinced that Antonio Conte - the main candidate - could fit

Pérez asks Julen Lopetegui for explanations after the defeat against Levante. The president needs to know what or what are the problems for the team to lead five games without winning -Sevilla, Atlético de Madrid, CSKA Moscow, Alavés and Levante-. A meeting that took place just after the match at the Bernabéu when the president had a face to face with the technician to know the problems and solutions. 

A necessary summit so that the president does not make a hot decision and check to what extent the coach is able to overcome and overcome this crisis. The next match is on Tuesday, also at the Bernabéu, against Viktoria Plzen. Lopetegui works to anticipate this appointment while waiting for the club to mature and deepen a decision that is described as difficult because it does not have a clear candidate to take the bench immediately. 

It is time to know if Florentino Pérez is more aware of the sports project than the infrastructure of the new stadium, all its logistics and business lines. It is time to know what goes through the head of the president of Real Madrid to find solutions to another disaster. The problems are aggravated on the lawn with a new defeat. 

The victory of Levante (1-2) aggravates the sports situation of an impoverished squad and a coach who receives a deadly thrust. Real Madrid is a terrific and unfortunate team. With a dangerous dynamic that needs urgent measures and, as often happens in these situations of crisis, the manual passes by firing the coach. Lopetegui writes another chapter of an announced death that began with the shameful defeat in the Sánchez Pizjuán. 

The day that Sevilla gave a wiggle in the first part to some players without tension, intensity or character. Since that game, everything has been worse. 

Florentino, in the armchair of the box of the Bernabéu, raised his glasses, took his mobile phone -minute 29, with 0-2- and wrote a message. The image only needed to appear with the thumb down. He did not like what he was seeing. A fragile team, accelerated. With Kroos, Bale, and Benzema on the bench. Vinicius in the stands. An Earth team with an eleven in which Lopetegui opted for a lead with Asensio, Lucas Vázquez and Mariano.

This is not the team that falls in love, fascinates and excites the fans. But this is the planning that Florentino Pérez has wanted. Pretending to believe that a team without Cristiano Ronaldo can get ahead without signing a contracted scorer is paid sooner or later.

Given the adverse circumstances, in Spanish media began to circulate a version in which the position of Lopetegui is in doubt and Florentino Perez would have chosen the new Madridista strategist, in case the crisis ends up exploding.

If Lopetegui continues on the bench it is because Florentino does not want to acknowledge the mistakes made and is not convinced that Antonio Conte - the main candidate - can fit. The Italian coach has a lot of personalities. Sometimes, conflictive. The remedy can be worse than the disease in these cases and this is what makes the president of Real Madrid doubt. Changing a coach is not easy for Florentino because he is in debt to Lopetegui after not finding the substitute he wanted from Zidane and throwing himself into the hands of the former coach. Lopetegui went through the back door of the National Team and these favors are usually rewarded by the president of Real Madrid.

Real Madrid plays against Viktoria Plzen on Tuesday at the Bernabéu and the dynamic is ugly. Lopetegui is increasingly difficult to follow because the next league match is the Camp Nou. The problems are serious in all the lines. Real Madrid lost and made only one goal. Marcelo broke an eight-hour streak without scoring. The equipment is not compact, it has problems in the definition, an alarming sensation of being lost and without tension. A problem that has to be analyzed by Florentino. This is not Real Madrid.

Only Marcelo and Mariano are saved

The defeat against Levante is an X-ray of all the problems that beset Lopetegui. It still fails to get the players plugged in at the start of the matches. Morales advanced to Levante -minute 7- in another defensive error. This time it was the turn of Varane, overcome, weak and clueless on a long ball that Morales won to beat Courtois on his way out. The second goal also has like a negative protagonist Varane and the VAR.

The Frenchman touches the ball lightly with his hand and, in a rigorous decision, the referee decides to post a penalty after hearing the referee team that reviewed the action on the monitors. The misfortune accompanied Madrid from 0-2. A goal annulled by the VAR -minute 17- after a header from Sergio Ramos to the crossbar and an offside by Asensio. The ball went into the rejection of Marco Asensio, but the position was illegal. Mariano crashed another header to the crossbar -minute 34- and the goalkeeper of Levante -Over- began to become the hero of the team with successful stops to the insistent white attacks.

Lopetegui had bet to put Isco in the eleven. A risk after an appendicitis operation that has not been completed for a month since his intervention - September 25 -. Isco was losing his footing due to lack of form. The Madrid generated danger with the acceleration of Marcelo by the left, its ascents and centers. Of what little salvageable with the impetus and the fight of M Mariano, that went to all the balls and everything. Defraud Asensio, Lucas Vázquez and Modric.

Collectively the team had no spark or stuck. Defensively it has broken down. Even Sergio Ramos is far from his best version. In the second part, the coach put all the artillery in the field: Bale, Benzema and his personal best of Ceballos to remove Isco. Madrid came many times to the area of ​​Oier but did not translate the chances in goal. Desperate for a hobby that peppered the team and a president who has something to say or decide.

The Italian Antonio Conte, an expert from Juventus of Turin and Chelsea from England would be the main option to reach the bank of the 'Casablanca' before a possible resignation of the current coach.

Antonio Conte, a former Chelsea coach, would be the strongest candidate to reach Real Madrid.

The information from the newspapers in the Peninsula suggests that Florentino Pérez had already begun negotiations to have Conte ready, who has been unemployed since his departure from Stamford Bridge, where he was replaced by Maurizio Sarri.

However, Conte's style of play, related to the defense and associated with an attack due to speed and surprise, would not be to the liking of the Santiago Bernabéu boxes, although this does not seem to be an obstacle for the top manager ' merengue'. Real Madrid occupies the fifth place in the standings of La Liga de España with 14 points and, if some results are given, his fall would only stop until the seventh position, something unimaginable for a club of such immense prestige.

The Viktoria Pilsen of the Czech Republic in the Champions League and Barcelona for the Spanish classic are shaping up to be judges and executioners of the Madrid side, leaving the head of Lopetegui served.