To Don Ramon Calderon Ramos and to whom it many concern:

1- The Real Madrid Supporters who are regular contributors to the website “Fans del Real Madrid” (www.fansdelmadrid.blogspot.com) and many other web sites wish to thank Fabio Capello for the impresive results achieved with Real Madrid. He has turned around a decline which has lasted for years, making the team excell in his workrate, untiring faith and search for victory. We wish to express the gratitude, recognition and affection of many fans to don Fabio.

2- We are disgusted at the campaign aimed at Mr Capello since his arrival in Spain. It has been unjust and mainly based on personal reasons. Even when footballing reasons have been argumented, other teams utilizing very similar tactical systems (like Valencia) have been painted with a totally diferent brush in the media.

3- We reject the idea that football should have an ideology. Football is a diverse sport and can be played in many different ways. We don’t accept the dubious aesthetical criteria used to describe different styles of playing the game.

4- Furthermore, we also reject the idea that Real Madrid has been playing poorly or that the current style is alien to the essence and values of the club. Much to the contrary, the current display of discipline and team work are examples of areas where we have always excelled. The clearest proof is that in the league we´ve not only beaten all of our closest rivals, but have achieved the all time record of points away from home.

5- We wish to ask Don Ramon Calderon, president of Real Madrid, to end this period of uncertainty and the humiliation the architect of our footballing resurrection has been subjected to. We wish to remind Sr. Calderon that in his election manifesto he promised to abide by the strategy of the technical director. The club needs to be ruled by a long term and well structured strategy, not by the constant change of coaches or changes because of a whim.

6- We reject the excessive influence given to a certain sector of the club surroundings which are not necessarily a majority neither correct in their views. We respect the senior members and ex players, but we stress that the club doesn´t belong to them. The current success of the team is not a miracle or due to some sort of spiritual healing session with deceased players. The Internet has shown us a concept of a Real Madrid fan which many wish to forget. The Real Madrid Fan base is international, enthusiastic and young.

7- We also reject the excessive influence of the media on the daily running of the club. We strive for an independent club, able to guide itself, staying away from meaningless controversies and external interests. We ask the club to actively defend itself from the attacks and negative media campaigns the club is constantly subjected to.

For all of the above, we ask Don Ramon Calderon to reflect carefully during the following days and avoid making a historical mistake. We also ask all Real Madrid Fans who feel identified with the points made to sign this petition, with the objective to give the greatest strength to this message we deem of vital importance for the future of our club.

Hala Madrid!

To sign the online petition: http://www.gopetition.com/online/12876.html

it is official now that fabio  is going....

I wonder if you can draw comparisons between this and Camacho's sacking (was it Camacho who was in charge the last time they won the league before last season?), both had successful seasons but we're seemingly on the outer due to the men upstairs deciding they weren't right for the club. As a Barcelona fan I am delighted to see Capello go, because he looked to have got it right as evidencedby their amazing run home to win the league. Now a new manager has to come in (probably Schuster) and the players have to go through the same process of learning to play how their manager wants all over again.

the reason for the sacking visca was that fabio wasnt playin eye pleasin football. hopefully schuster can rectify that!

C'mon Capello wasn't great!  Del Bosque got fired for doing less wrong...Makelele got transferred for even less.  The real point that we're eluding to is that Sevilla and Barcelona dropped really silly points and allowed Madrid to do nothing really special, but what they were suppose to do, win their games and not even that was done completely with frailities in Both Sevilla and Barcelona showed up inconsistencies which cost Barcelona CL victories, Copa del Rey progression and several easily winnable la liga games.  In Sevilla's case, theirs wee more associated with La liga games.

My point really is that if Barcelona & Sevilla did what Madrid did and won the games they were suppose to EVEN up to the 2nd last game vs modest opposition, Capello's  job wouldn't be up for so much discussion, it would've been simply the failure it was, with silly moves like exhiling Ronaldo and Beckam and to a much lesser extent Cassano.  Only Arsenal in recent times have shown more of a collapse than Barcelona and Sevillla, when they lost the EPL title with a 10 pt lead in less than 10 games to go, i think it was in 2001/2002. 

It's not so much that Capello was bad as it looked like the players were more in control than him, in which case, either way, he was unable to manage them adequately.  It's like a parent who has dilinquent children, the authorities do not beat and chastise the children as much as they castigate the parents for a bad job or tell them that they're incompetent.  OR it's like Sven managing England - they haven't won a trophy since 1966, but fans are blaming him for them not playing well.  OR it's like Hector Cuper at Inter Milan - he's a good coach, but he was unable to bring the type of success Inter were looking for, never mind Inter were not winning before he even got there.  But tha'ts football!