Former Real Madrid assistant manager Davide Ancelotti admitted that when Toni Kroos called it a career after the 2023–24 season, Los Blancos “lost something they will never recover.”
Now at the helm of Lille in Ligue 1, Ancelotti served as the main assistant to his father, Carlo Ancelotti, during the latter’s second chapter at the helm of Real Madrid between 2021–25, a period in which Los Blancos conquered two Champions League titles.