The nickname with which the Spanish Real Madrid players refer to Arbeloa

Real Madrid is experiencing an unprecedented sporting crisis, as the poor results on the field have been compounded by extreme tension in the locker room, with exchanges of reproaches and footballers getting into fights. Fights in some training sessions can be considered normal, but what is not normal is that the arguments not only drag on but also end up like the incident between Tchouaméni and Valverde, with the Uruguayan - second captain of the white team - having to go to the hospital and the club announcing that he will be out for about two weeks due to a head trauma. All this, just a handful of days before visiting the Camp Nou and seeing how Barça, with a draw, is enough to seal the League under the noses of the whites.

The Real Madrid locker room is currently a powder keg. Manolo Lama, a journalist for the COPE radio station and commentator for the white team's matches on the same station, has added more fuel to the fire by explaining one of the locker room's secrets that help understand the existing tension. In this case, Álvaro Arbeloa and the Spanish nationality players. According to Lama, these players, usually substitutes, mock their coach from the bench: “Many of the problems come because the Spanish players who don't play, when they are on the bench, don't stop calling their coach 'con'”.

The journalist added that the footballers openly criticize the coach with phrases like: “Look at the con, how bad he is” or “look at the con, he doesn't understand anything”. Even though Arbeloa had not realized it directly, the information has reached him through his coaching staff or the material managers, one more example of the absolute disarray that the Real Madrid locker room is currently experiencing. The bad name of con -referring to a technically limited footballer- became popular during Arbeloa's time as a player, especially on social media and among rival fans. Even Gerard Piqué, when both were still active footballers, made a reference with a play on words in which he referred to Arbeloa as "known".

Florentino Pérez, responsible

Lama also directly points to Florentino Pérez as the origin of the mess and to the clan formed by Vinícius Júnior, Valverde, and Jude Bellingham, who opposed Xabi Alonso's discipline. The situation exploded when Vinícius challenged Alonso in front of 80,000 people at the Santiago Bernabéu when he was substituted on the day of the classic match, and the president supported the player, leading to the coach's dismissal. From here, the white crisis has been intensifying to levels where reality seems to surpass fiction.