Real president Perez backs Pellegrini

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has eased the pressure on manager Manuel Pellegrini requesting Real fans to give both the coach and the team time to gel and insists that results will soon arrive.

A dismal 4-0 Copa del Rey defeat at Alcorcon brought Pellegrini’s future at the Bernabeu into doubt with intense criticism flowing in from all sides. Although the situation that the team is entangled in is intimidating to the president, especially after the club splashed out around € 250 million on new signings this summer, he has called for calm and insists that the newly altered side need time to settle.

“There has to be calm and patience, even though the defeat in Alcorcon was humiliating. The history of Real Madrid is more than one game, which shouldn’t be exaggerated or create unrest,” Perez told AS.

”Of course it’s not nice for a president to see his team like that (against Alcorcon), but we are Real Madrid. The same as knowing how to win, we have to know how to lose and recognise that yesterday Alcorcon were better than Real Madrid. We need to congratulate the opposing players and try to turn the tie around.”

“We’ve only had two months of competition. The coach is new, he has a different system to last year and there are many new players.

You have to give the team time to fit together and I’m sure the results will arrive. Also, we haven’t been helped by injuries we’ve had 15 in a few months.”