Real Madrid: “Change, you’re seriously penalizing the team,” Courtois’ warning to Bellingham

As Real Madrid struggles to be flamboyant this season despite the victories, Thibaut Courtois has issued a shocking ultimatum to Jude Bellingham; far from his usual standards since the start of the summer. “

The atmosphere at Real Madrid is heavier than ever. As the club goes through a historic institutional and sporting crisis, a new internal conflict unfolds in broad daylight. According to our information, the Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois would have ordered the English star Jude Bellingham to “change” his attitude, pointing to his behavior as one of the knots of Madrid’s malaise.

The 2025/26 season is turning into a nightmare for the Casa Blanca. A second consecutive year possibly devoid of any trophy, Real, currently one point behind Barça in La Liga and relegated to the Champions League playoff round, is living a descent into hell. The post-Ancelotti era, opened with the thunderous arrival of Kylian Mbappé, has turned into a fiasco. Xabi Alonso, then Alvaro Arbeloa promoted from the reserve team, could not stop it.

Bellingham, the scapegoat of a collective disaster?

In this explosive context, Jude Bellingham is pointed at. Criticized for his lack of efficiency and his alleged inability to follow tactical instructions, the Englishman would embody the drift of an unmanageable dressing room. It is in this climate that Thibaut Courtois, a figure of the team, would have taken matters into his own hands.

“Courtois understands that Real’s chances of winning a trophy depend on the optimal form of its key players,” a source close to the club told Football365. “One of them is Bellingham. He wants him to refocus and become the player who impressed everyone upon his arrival.” An ultimatum behind the scenes: either the midfielder pulls himself together, or he sinks the team’s already wavering ambitions.

A leadership in disarray facing oversized egos

The incoming coach signing — with Klopp, Emery or Löw names already circulating — will inherit an almost impossible mission: to tame the colossal egos of a star-studded dressing room and to ease tensions with a board of directors in the middle of a storm.

The verdict is in. Between the mistrust toward Bellingham, chronic instability on the bench and disastrous results, the Madrid giant sinks. Courtois’ wake-up call to Bellingham may be only the first symptom of an internal war that threatens to take everything away.