Xabi Alonso responds to Real Madrid question after Carlo Ancelotti claims

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti is rumoured to person decided to permission his station astatine the extremity of season, sparking speculation that Xabi Alonso volition beryllium brought successful to regenerate him

Xabi Alonso has brushed disconnected speculation that helium volition go Real Madrid's adjacent manager astatine the extremity of the season.

The erstwhile Los Blancos midfielder, 41, has been heavily linked with a imagination instrumentality to the Bernabeu implicit the past 12 months aft impressing successful his archetypal elder managerial occupation with Bayer Leverkusen.

And speech of Alonso stepping up to instrumentality the apical occupation astatine Real has lone intensified successful caller days amid speculation that Carlo Ancelotti is acceptable to locomotion distant from the Spanish giants successful the summer, with the Italian already seeking a caller situation abroad.

But Alonso is keeping his chill successful the aftermath of specified speech and insists that his existent occupation with Bayer Leverkusen remains his sole focus.

“Already questions connected Real Madrid?! [laughs] Time goes by but the affection remains,” Alonso said successful his property league up of Leverkusen's gathering with Atletico Madrid successful the Champions League successful midweek. “Our enslaved is precise strong, that is wide but my full absorption is connected Bayer Leverkusen now, that’s successful my mind.”

“Real Madrid rumors? I’m calm,” the erstwhile Spain planetary added erstwhile helium was questioned again by reporters. “I person capable things to interest about, it’s not connected my caput close now.”

Both Alonso and Ancelotti person contracts tying them to their respective clubs until 2026. It's thought they are both, though, apt to permission their roles successful the summer.

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Ancelotti, who has been linked with the Brazil occupation for implicit a year, has enjoyed tremendous occurrence since moving to the Bernabeu backmost successful 2021 aft a spell astatine Everton.

The 65-year-old adjacent confirmed past January that helium had been approached by the Brazilian Football Federation implicit managing the nationalist squad earlier signing a caller declaration with Real Madrid, saying astatine the time: "The world is what everyone knows. I had interaction with the [now former] president of the Brazilian federation, Ednaldo Rodrigues.

"I privation to convey him for his affection and interest, it made maine precise proud, but what's wide to everyone is it depends connected my concern astatine Real Madrid. I'm grateful for the involvement but successful the end, it turned retired however I wanted: staying here."

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