{"id":16567,"date":"2025-12-01T10:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=665331"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:35:30","slug":"xabi-alonso-dismisses-dressing-room-rift-rumours-urges-real-madrid-to-stay-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/xabi-alonso-dismisses-dressing-room-rift-rumours-urges-real-madrid-to-stay-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso dismisses dressing-room rift Rumours; Urges Real Madrid to \u201cStay United\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid head coach Xabi Alonso has strongly refuted circulating rumours suggesting that several senior players in the squad are unhappy with his management and want the club to move on from him soon. Speaking after Madrid\u2019s latest fixture, Alonso insisted that the team is fully committed and united, pushing back against claims of poor attitude or internal friction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa Liga is still very long. I don\u2019t agree on players having a bad attitude, not at all,\u201d Alonso said, addressing the speculation head-on. His comments come after a series of reports claiming unrest within the dressing room, with suggestions that some players were dissatisfied with tactical decisions and training methods.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso, however, made it clear that he sees no signs of negativity within the camp. Instead, he praised the squad\u2019s resilience, especially after a challenging run of fixtures that has tested Madrid both physically and mentally. \u201cI really liked the players\u2019 character tonight. We need to stay united,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid head coach Xabi Alonso has strongly refuted circulating rumours suggesting that several senior players in the squad are\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":35769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3682,3686,1823,3796,3774,449,3919,266,2924,4230,2554,3608],"class_list":["post-16567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-alonso","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-girona","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-la-liga","tag-real-madrid","tag-rodrygo","tag-rudiger","tag-vinicius-jr","tag-xabi-alonso"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}