What does this forum think about current Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon?
That's being one of the subjects I've been thinking about since January.I don't get much news aside from the NET and the interesting posts that you guys deliver on a daily basis, that's why I'd like to hear some opinions from anyone
out there who has anything to comment.
Cause the way I see it, I can't understand why is he still president of the club-the presidency that promised much, but has yet to deliver anything except the League title-which I admit was an achievement that could not have been done without the help of the current coach,WHICH he never gave much public support.

Discussing on what he has done,let's see:
A Brazilian ace,a Dutch winger, and a Spainish midfielder were rumored to be on their way to the Bernabeau if he won the presidency(did i get this right, correct me if i got any facts wrong)-which the voting itself was in doubt-he burned the mailman.
Also, there was that speech? At a certain university?Players being overpaid.. Guti must have been smiling..
Beckham.. for free? The U.S must have thought they were high.
Now, the coach. After 4 years since we've won anything,you would think that someone in their right sense of mind would try their best to keep the coach.Don't know if it's true, but he's trying to replace him?

Get a grip fool!
All the yak-and yak on the official site on how much he values hard work and true values of the club,did he think he could have actually done it without the coach? Perez did it once before, getting rid of the winning coach.That ended his presidency and 4 years without a trophy.Now he's going to do
the very same thing?Some people just don't learn.
I salute my respect to Capello,regardless on whether he'll be around next year or not.Over the last 12 games,he has really been the best coach.Sometimes it's not the way the coach starts a match,is the manner he ends it.That's why, I always have respect for coaches who can change games at will.
It's the best foundation to launch a bid to win the Champion's League, yet the president feels otherwise.Seriously, Capello did NOT do anything wrong-aside from the loss of Becks, which i felt was harsh on the
coach.On the footballing results,we actually lost out in both the Champion's League and Copa del Rey due to away goals(4-4,1-1).He has instilled a hardworking ethic in the dressing room,and he has repeatedly admitted that he'd like to continue,why change?
There's is a saying though,don't fix it unless it's
broken.What do you think? Thanx for reading.

Calderon will continue and Capello will be replaced. Schuster will be the new coach. A Barça member will be the coach of Madrid....

i just can no believe capello (the best manager in the world imo) would be replaced by anyone. it's insane!


if calderon going means capello stays, then good bye calderon.

I don't think Real should replace anyone. We need stability and sacking the coach or the president is not a good way to begin a new season. Calderon is far from being my fav president, but let him do his job. Same with Capello: this man never promised a brilliant football, he just promised a tittle, and he fulfilled his promise, something not everyone can do.

well i don't want calderon to go, but i was [beep!] off with him trying to replce capello. i would pefer everyone to stay, but if he sacks capello then he can [beep!] off. he won't be helping the team at all and when we then fail to retain the title because of capello's absence he'll be the one in the firing line.

Calderon is nutcase. Plain & simple.

lol, i love how you worded it. it's true though, he is.

Capello is oficially sacked. They have a reunion today at 12.00 to decide who are they signing. Schuster is the most likely to get the charge.

so madrid madness strikes again.

i don't know what to say really, it's hard to imagine anyone sacking capello.

real madrid is being run by a bunch of nutcases, calderon is the only one.

so how do you feel raul?

upset? embarressed that your team continue to make such stupid decisions even after they've suffered from them in the past? [beep!] off?

Real must be the most unstable club in the World. They are continuasly replacing there manager, whether they succeed or not.

Real need to sort out there boardroom to get some certainty about there club, nobody know whether there coming or going at the moment and its a disgrace.

I cannot beleive a manager who won them the league, has been sacked ! Where is the justice ?

I always thought that keeping a manager for more than 10 years (like Man Utd with Ferguson) was terrible for a team, but it's even more terrible than you sack one (or two or three) managers each season, even when your team wins the championship.

I don't feel this has been a good decision but I'll wait til October/November to insult Mijatovic, Calderon and their families

even if schuster does do a good job, i still think it was the wrong decision. capello would've made madrid a real force in the Champions League next season, and i'm sure we would've been much stronger in the league as well. if schuster does well, then the board have been lucky.

so why do you think it's bad to keep 1 manager for 10 years?

i hasn't done Arsenal and Man Utd much harm. having 1 manager for a long time keeps the club stable and generally the team are consistantly good and will challenge titles every season. what's wrong with that?

they shud all b replace the board and chairman coz there crap, and manager coz lots of madrid fans didnt like the style of football being played especially not having a creative midfield player playin regularly in the centre

Having one manager for 10 years means you don't accept evolution, innovation. Sounds like one of those traditions in Britain.

Having 2 managers per year means you have no [beep!] stability

ye so they need a gd manager who will b sucseful but also play attractive football.

Frank Rijkard ?

**runs aways and hides from Real Madrid fans**

yeah but towards the end of the season when we were playing well, our games were not boring at all. they were very exciting, especially with all the late goals we scored.

capello was going to buy a play maker anyway, so what's the problem?

The Madrid board are off their heads, thats the problem.

There will be no stability at Real until that board has a complete re - shuffle.

our board might as well be the barca board, because they seem to be doing everything they can to ruin this club.

Okay, don't be dramatic either!

they are a joke though.

why don't we all tell them axactly what we think of them and the decision they made.

http://www.realmadrid.com/articulo/rma2012.htm

there you go, contact them on the site.

Most things that happen in football,cease to have desired explainations.However shocking the decision of the Real Madrid board to axe former coach Fabio Capello,the fans will just have to get over it-which they evetually will.

Coaches come,coaches go.Ultimately,people who sit in the boardroom dictates the running and future of the club.It's up to the fans to decide whether their loyalty for the club is for real or otherwise.

Hats off to former coach Fabio Capello,my respect for him has just went up another level.What he did for the club in this one year,would not have been possible with simply any coach.From shaking up the dressing room,to grounding the stars,building up the team spirit,and winning a title in a club whose trophy cupboard dried up 4 years ago? No word can express my gratitude to this coach.Thanks a lot.I for one as a fan,will not forget what you've done in this one memorable season.The ongoing debate on whether Real Madrid won it,or Barcelona lost it,it doesn't matter.Next season,new challenge,new game.

Now,for the honorable don-Don Calderon.It's actually a risk from my point of view what he's getting at.At times it seems to me he knows what he's doing, but sometimes,I'm really at a loss.Firstly, congratulations on winning 3 trophies in the first year of presidency-ie,La Liga,ULCB Cup,ACB Cup,it's a "pretty good" achievement.Where he leads the club from here,will decide the fate of his presidency.

To be honest,it should be mentioned,former president Perez,did a pretty good job till the last phase of his presidency.Cleared the club's debts,established postive income,winning trophies and signing the world's best players of their time,pretty decent if you ask me.Only towards the end he kinda lost his way,got mixed up in the football department when all he should have focused on,was getting the right people to do it and run them.Calderon seems to leave most of the footballing issues to Mijatovic-who was a former player at Real Madrid himself.He runs the show from the boardroom,signing new sponsers,meeting the delagates,etc.

I see no point in criticizing the president any further.The first year of his presidency went pretty well,lets see how he plans to carry the club foward from here.Fans are fickle minded-least 90% of them-continue winning,and they'll forgive you for anything.It's true that losing Capello would seriously hinder the club's chances of moving foward,but who knows?The football is round, anything goes.Barcelona have certainly shown their intent on regaining the League title by signing Henry from Arsenal.A wounded animal is a very dangerous one.The ball's now in Real Madrid's court,it's up to us to do it.

Thanks for the replies,will kinda change this post to discuss more on Los Merengues.Any opinions on the club,free to bring them up.

yeah perez did a very good job in my opinion. i liked him a lot. he was the president when we were the best team in the world (by a long way it must be said).

calderon may have had a good first season, but that may have only been because he didn't have the time to [beep!] everything up for us. now he's been there longer he's had more time to change things (not for the better). getting capello was great, but then he went and sacked him. if capello's style wasn't exciting/attacking enough, then why appoint him in the first place?

Why has the tittle of the thread been changed?

no idea.