Carlo Ancelotti arrived in Madrid the second day of July.

He was accompanied by his agent, Canovi, and his son, David Ancelotti.

David will also be part of Real Madrid's coaching team for the new season, having recently been studying with Giovanni Mauri, who has been Carlo Ancelotti's best partner over the years and a world-renowned top strength and conditioning coach.

Since reaching an agreement with Real Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti and his team have received the team's itinerary for the new season, including training camps in North America and a trip to Asia, and they are ready for pre-season.

Carlo Ancelotti is coming to Madrid for his first appearance at the Bernabeu.

Of course, his appearance could not have been as sensational as the debut ceremony of Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic and Kaka two years ago, and even at the capital airport, no one noticed his appearance, and this is the situation of the head coach.

If it were Yang Yang, I am afraid that he would have been blocked by the media and fans who heard the news.

Real Madrid arranged for an employee from the athletic department to pick them up at the airport and take the trio directly to the Santiago Bernabeu.

Boss Manuel Redondo, technical director Baldano and special adviser Zinedine Zidane, plus sporting director Padessa, all of Real Madrid's top brass gathered in the Bernabeu's office to welcome Carlo Ancelotti's arrival.

It's just that this is still somewhat insufficient.

"Mr. Perez had a very important meeting at the company, and he asked us to start first." Redondo noticed Ancelotti's look and explained.

Ancelotti smiled and nodded, he spoke to Florentino on the phone, but he also knew that in Real Madrid today, his direct boss is Baldano, then Manuel Redondo, and then Florentino.

Even he faintly heard some news, Florentino implemented modern management in Real Madrid, he himself is not too involved in affairs, the club's big and small affairs are entrusted to Redondo, he is more in control of the overall situation.

Of course, in this case, if he appears, it will undoubtedly represent the importance that Real Madrid attaches to Ancelotti.

But alas, Ancelotti is well aware that he does not have such weight.

At the end of the day, this wasn't his official debut.

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After everyone met, they went directly to the conference room, and immediately went straight to the point after the secretary brought coffee and drinks one after another.

The meeting was about Ancelotti's management of Real Madrid in the future, including how he plans to manage the dressing room, manage the team, and whether Valdebebas should be revamped appropriately, or what specific ideas and requirements he has.

Valdano has made it clear that Real Madrid have agreed to Carlo Ancelotti's previous request to further expand the first-team coaching staff, but only to a maximum of 20 players, and that Real Madrid will help pay for the fee as appropriate.

One of the misconceptions that many fans out there have always been is that the salary of the coaching staff has always been paid by the head coach.

For example, Benitez's team, Yesterdam and others get their salaries from Benitez's side.

In other words, the salary paid by Real Madrid to the manager is actually the salary paid to the entire coaching team.

Carlo Ancelotti's salary is not low, reaching a whopping €8 million a year, but everyone at Real Madrid believes that he and his team deserve the package, at least at AC Milan and Chelsea.

Of course, in many cases, the club will also share part of the salary package of the coaching team with the head coach as appropriate, so Real Madrid has given the requirement that Ancelotti's coaching team cannot exceed 20 people, which is also particular.

In the past two years of Guardiola's coaching of Barcelona, he has been constantly expanding the coaching team, and the coaching staff of the first team has reached more than 30 people at the most, more than the players, which makes Barcelona also bear expensive salary expenses, so after Russell came to power, he immediately asked Guardiola to reduce the coaching staff list, and the two also had conflicts.

There is an old saying among the Chinese that soldiers are not expensive.

Sometimes having more coaches doesn't necessarily mean a good thing.

In addition, in addition to several old partners, there are also several young people in the list of coaching team submitted by Ancelotti, such as his son David Ancelotti, his son-in-law Mino Falke, who is the son of Ancelotti's right-hand man nutritionist Abaldi, and the son of fitness coach Giovanni Mauri, Francesc Mauri, who is the team's No. 2 physical coach.

Therefore, many times this relationship is also intricate and complicated.

In addition, Redondo also said that after receiving another request from Ancelotti, Real Madrid finally decided that Zinedine Zidane would be Ancelotti's assistant coach and become the link between the coaching staff, management and the dressing room.

When Zidane heard this, he nodded and smiled politely at Ancelotti, but there was some helplessness in his expression.

Only a very few people know that Zidane was actually driven by Florentino and forced to take office, otherwise, with the character of a French legend, he will definitely have to be casual and happy for a while.

Ancelotti and Zidane are also relatively familiar, the two worked together at Juventus for a while, and later they were in frequent contact, so when recommending to Florentino, Zidane was the first to think.

This time it was his wish.

And after everyone talked about a few specific issues one after another, Florentino finally came late.

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'I think the first thing I need to do when I come to Real Madrid is to change the impact of the departure of the previous manager on this team, he was very successful at Real Madrid and his departure is bound to create some insecurity for the players, they are worried about their position and their situation, and we need to reassure them as soon as possible.

Carlo Ancelotti mentioned the first thing he would do when he took charge of Real Madrid.

"So, I need to build a friendship with them as soon as possible, and I'm going to talk to them one by one as soon as the season starts, and I'm going to be open and honest with them about what I think and what I want to do with them, and I also need to be a leader in the team."

Florentino looked at Redondo, Baldano and Zidane, and everyone nodded in unison.

"What specific candidates do you have?" Florentino didn't say anything, just asked.

This is also where the Real Madrid president is smart, he is testing Carlo Ancelotti.

"I think there are three people to consider." Ancelotti replied.

"Yang Yang, there is no doubt that he should be the leader of the team on the pitch, as far as I know, he doesn't talk much, but he always does his best, he is the hardest working player in the team, and at the same time the most fighting player, I think there is such a leader who can supervise the whole team in games and training."

Ancelotti's remarks were not unfounded.

Since Yang Yang joined Real Madrid for two years, the atmosphere of this Real Madrid team has undergone earth-shaking changes, it looks like a superstar, but there is no laziness and slackness like a superstar team, but everyone is tense and plays very hard in every game, even the substitute lineup.

It's a gene, it's an atmosphere.

Some people say that it was brought by Benitez, which is true, but the players must be able to accept it.

It's like the three times a week when Benitez was just coaching, everyone thought that the Real Madrid superstars couldn't suffer so much and would definitely be opposed, but it turned out that the Real Madrid superstars not only ate, but also benefited a lot.

It can be said that this incident completely subverted the outside world's impression of the Real Madrid dressing room, and made everyone realize that they are no longer a group of loose bosses, but a group of players.

Of course, it is Benitez who brings about this change, but it is absolutely inseparable from Yang Yang's support.

Let's ask, the number one superstar in the team, the core hand-picked by Florentino, is so hard-working, what reason do others have to slack off?

Therefore, from the very beginning, Ancelotti decided that Yang Yang would be the leader on the Real Madrid pitch.

The leader of the locker room is captain Casillas.

"He's a standard Madridist, he's been with Real Madrid from the age of 10 to 20 to 30, he's the flag of the city, he's playing a pivotal role in the Real Madrid team, he's representing a lot of people who have dedicated their lives to Real Madrid, and you can see in him the legacy of the Real Madrid spirit."

Everyone present also largely agreed with Carlo Ancelotti's judgment that Casillas would be the leader of the team's dressing room.

"The last one is Ramos, we all know that he is the vice-captain of the team, the future captain, he has a very strong charisma, never fears or is never anxious, always positive, full of energy, able to transmit his strength to others, he represents the blood and bravery of the spirit of Real Madrid Juanito."

When Florentino and the others heard this, they immediately looked at each other for a while, and they all sensed the signal in each other's eyes, Ancelotti obviously did work hard to coach Real Madrid.

The three leaders he has established may not seem to be anything special, or someone else can choose them, but he has given them a different position, which means that he is familiar with and understands Real Madrid.

More importantly, his remarks convinced the Real Madrid management that he could bring stability to the team.

For Real Madrid now, stability can produce results, because the strength of the team is there.

"I want you to give me Yang Yang's contact information as soon as possible, I know he's on vacation, but I can't wait to talk to him about the future, about the team and the dressing room." Ancelotti said with a slight joking.

He is a shrewd man and he knows very well that if he wants to coach at Real Madrid, he must first have the support of Yang Yang.

Even, he can offend any Real Madrid player, except Yang Yang.

Without Yang Yang's support, it is impossible for him to stay in this team for a long time.

Fortunately, Ancelotti had a rough chat with Yang Yang before, and they could talk to each other, and he also knew that Florentino and others had asked Yang Yang's opinion, and he must have received a positive response, so he was able to sit here.

"No phone calls anymore." Florentino shook his head.

"What?"

"He'll be at your press conference, so let's have a good chat then." The Real Madrid president laughed.