The Malaga coach spoke about his time at Real Madrid and told the press that even though the media was against him during his time at Los Blancos, he was still backed by 80% of the fans.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Manuel-c23383 Pellegrini recently spoke about his time at Real Madrid and how he was helping his side win the Spanish La Liga and the Champions League title, but couldn’t manage to do much as he was without the services of Ronaldo and Pepe.
The current Malaga coach revealed that he would have liked it if the Spanish champions, Real Madrid, won at least a single title back in his days.
When Pellegrini was in charge of the Spanish club, Real Madrid bought two extraordinary players, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629. However, despite signing these two exceptional and talented players, Real Madrid could not win a single title that season.
However, Pellegrini said the reason why he lost the title was because Cristiano http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pepe-c29670 were both out of action.
He believes that since these two players are important for Los Blancos, which is the reason why he could not win the title, but still managed to get 96 points, something which stood as a record for Los Blancos back then.
While speaking about his time at Real Madrid, Pellegrini said:
“I would have liked to have left Madrid with a title and in general I think we deserved it. I’d like to see what Madrid would do today with Ronaldo out for two-and-a-half months and Pepe out for six. We got 96 points.”
Pellegrini also spoke about how the media kept on highlighting that he is not a coach worth Real Madrid, but the fans still loved him.
While speaking about how the fans supported him and how he still has utmost respect for Los Blancos, Pellegrini said:
“I left with the support of the players and the people. Despite the media being against me I had the backing of 80 per cent of the fans. This reflects on the way they felt about the football and personally it gives me great satisfaction.”
“However, I don’t hold a grudge and yes; I still have a good relationship with many people at the club.”
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