Motivated by the idea of high frequency gain matrix K-P = LDU factorization, the purpose of this paper is to study the problem of robust direct model reference adaptive control for more general multivariable plants with unmodeled dynamics and disturbances. For multivariable plants, by reproving some properties similar to those in robust adaptive control theory for SISO plants and redefining the normalizing signal, the relationship between all the signals in the closed-loop plant and the normalizing signal can be established, and the stability and robustness of the closed-loop plant are analyzed rigorously from a qualitative point of view.