COMMENT: The Italian has been shown the door at the Bernabeu but it is a story that has been told before during Florentino Perez's presidency

By Kris Voakes | International Football Correspondent Real Madrid coaches really cannot do right for doing wrong.In 2003, Vicente del Bosque was sacked following a three-and-a-half year spell which had seen him lead the club to two Champions Leagues, two La Liga titles, a European Super Cup and a Club World Cup.The Blancos had won the league only two days earlier but the message was clear… it was the Champions League that was the real mission, and failure to win in Europe represented outright failure, whatever the achievements domestically.It took 11 years for anyone to bring home the much-anticipated Champions League. A club geared towards continental success had finally got it right. In fact, Carlo Ancelotti had got it right.After two Champions League wins with AC Milan in 2003 and 2007, Ancelotti followed up with the most noteworthy success of them all. He had given Florentino Perez the 10th European crown he had craved so much. But the president hadn’t really had faith in the Italian to bring home the bacon.When Real Madrid and their coach arrived in Lisbon ahead of that 4-1 win over neighbours Atletico, Ancelotti was staring down the barrel. Moves were being made to fire the 55-year-old should the Blancos not win the final, but he had the perfect answer for them.He stayed on to add a European Super Cup and Club World Cup to the Champions League and Copa del Rey he netted in his first season in charge. He led them to a sensational run of 22 successive wins to end 2014. He was the man finally bringing consistent success to Real Madrid.But, in the blink of an eye, Ancelotti is no longer in charge at the Santiago Bernabeu. On Monday he was sacked following his failure to secure any of the three major trophies. Four significant titles in two years were simply not enough for Perez.Yet again, the president has made a stick with which to beat a Real Madrid coach. Just as happened under Del Bosque, Perez’s frivolous spending is the excuse for his own itchy trigger finger.

Apparently, a Spanish league title was not enough given that he had Zidane, Raul, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Figo in his first XI. Similarly, Ancelotti has been told that second place is unforgivable considering the cash his boss has splashed out on Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez et al.While Ancelotti would have appreciated some additions in defence, he got whatever shiny new toy Perez wanted to parade around the Bernabeu. And shiny toys tend to mean midfielders and attackers. The Galacticos project was considered more important than the needs of the team, and the president got what he deserved.All sorts of excuses have been used to question Ancelotti’s suitability to the role. It was even claimed he was not tough enough as the Blancos’ form began to waver after the turn of the year. He was a ‘soft touch’, they said. “This soft touch has won three Champions Leagues,” he fired back at a press conference in March, and the man had a point.People would have been happy to come up with any theory to explain the team’s drop-off in form when the simple truth is that nobody can win every single game of football. Ancelotti has the second-highest win percentage of any coach in Madrid’s history, and yet he has been turfed out on his ear in no time at all.He would have been gone sooner, but he was too successful for his sacking last summer to be justified. And after 22 straight victories in the autumn, he was being lauded as the perfect coach for the hottest of hot seats.When the inevitable happened and Real Madrid finally started drawing and losing games again following that amazing run, Perez didn’t wonder what he might do differently in the future to help his coach. He simply decided to wash his hands of him and find the next sucker.The current model at Real Madrid simply isn’t sustainable. Ancelotti’s replacement will be the 12th coach to take up the hot seat since Del Bosque was ousted back in 2003. Never was there a more poisoned chalice.The new man will sign on the dotted line knowing the contract is not worth the paper it is written on. Perez is swallowing up top-class coaches and spitting them straight back out at a rate of knots, and Real Madrid are the only ones losing out as a result.

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