MADRID (AFP) - Real Madrid directors are due to hold their weekly meeting in an atmosphere of tension after Sunday´s morale-sapping home loss to struggling Levante wrecked hopes of marking the 1,000th league match at the Bernabeu stadium with a win.

A seventh league defeat of the campaign left Real on the ropes, five points behind leaders Barcelona and facing a fourth season without a trophy.

At the same time, coach Fabio Capello made it plain he has no intention of calling in David Beckham, frozen out of the squad and who watched the game from the stands, to help stop the rot.

Disciplinarian Capello has stamped his authority on the team since arriving last summer from Juventus but that has meant offloading top names such as Ronaldo and Beckham.

Beckham is still available to the end of the season, when he moves to LA Galaxy, but Capello, who in recent days had appeared to soften his initial stance that the Englishman would never play for the club again after electing not to extend his contract, was scathing of the veteran.

"Beckham doesn´t do anything for me. In the three years he has been here the results haven´t been that good. Now we are trying a new way of doing things," said Capello, who preferred to have 20-year-old Miguel Nieto on the bench than call up the former England skipper.

More significantly, the loss on home soil to a side in the bottom three who had never won at the venue finally snapped the patience of long-suffering fans.

Many waved white handkerchiefs, whistled their derision and demanded the resignation of chairman Ramon Calderon.

"The Bernabeu explodes," was how El Pais newspaper saw the cascade of angry sentiment which poured from the stands after a thoroughly mediocre performance by a Real side devoid of creative ideas.

"The Bernabeu is fed up," was how AS sports daily summed up the fans´ feelings Monday after a fourth defeat in six games.

Calderon and sporting director Pedja Mijatovic held crisis talks after the game, while Capello was moved late Sunday to bat away speculation by national television station TVE 2 that his future was in the balance.

"I am not thinking about resigning. I want to see out my contract," Capello insisted, adding he was convinced the club can still "win something this season."

Even as El Pais described the team as a "public joke" both Capello and veteran striker Raul blamed bad luck while the latter called for "stability and unity".

Long-serving defender Michel Salgado urged the team to "back Capello to the hilt", telling reporters: "It´s understandable people are fed up. We are generally playing badly. We all have to share the blame."