you are underrating pellegrini massively. he is an amazing coach. great philosophy, great vision and he can communicate with players. he had no support at madrid at all though. he wanted sneidjer and robben to stay- madrid sold them. kaka, benzema, cr all were players who have been bought by the president and not by pellegrini. he had no say at all in building the squad and still played a decent season. futhermore he had to deal with raul, and did great with it (benching him). he had a lot of problems and still wasnt that bad in his 1st year. . and i dont need to say anything about malaga or villareal. he both managed them to unbelievable highs