{"id":513,"date":"2025-01-21T22:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2025-01-21T22:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:13:54","slug":"our-bond-is-very-strong-xabi-alonso-on-potential-real-madrid-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/our-bond-is-very-strong-xabi-alonso-on-potential-real-madrid-move\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our bond is very strong&#8221; &#8211; Xabi Alonso on potential Real Madrid move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-47.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-47-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-47-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso warned on Monday that he \u201cabsolutely cannot\u201d say \u201cabsolutely nothing\u201d about his future in the middle of the season and expressed his gratitude for the affection he receives from Real Madrid fans, with whom the \u201cbond is very strong\u201d from his time as a player at the Spanish club from 2009 to 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Targeted in some media as a possible replacement for Carlo Ancelotti at Real Madrid at the end of the campaign, Xabi Alonso dodged every interrogation on that subject, from his first answer of the press conference: \u201cYou can well imagine that I can say absolutely nothing (about his future) because we are in the middle of the season\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll clubs have big objectives. Atleti has them, Madrid has them, we have them, and I&#8217;m working to achieve them. Every three days we have matches between all competitions, we come here to get to be in the top eight, Atleti too and I&#8217;m focused on that, above all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xabi Alonso played 236 games for the &#8216;Merengue&#8217; side, scoring 6 goals and winning 5 titles, including a Champions League against Atletico Madrid in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver the years, time goes by, but the affection remains. That relationship is unforgettable. That will remain there,\u201d he said about the affection he receives from the fans of the white team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOf course we are grateful for the relationship, because our bond is very strong, because it was a very beautiful period as a player and they were very intense years that cost us to get what we wanted and, when we got it, it was very celebrated. And that will remain,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xabi Alonso has \u201cneither\u201d been \u201cprepared\u201d nor is he \u201cbothered\u201d or \u201csurprised\u201d by questions about his future. \u201cI&#8217;m very calm, I&#8217;m thinking about Atletico on Tuesday against Leverkusen in the Champions League, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m preparing for and we have enough,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/match\/atletico-madrid\/bayer-leverkusen\/2025162064\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso warned on Monday tha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}