Zidane Has Rejected Real Madrid Job Already – Ramon Calderon

Zinedine Zidane has rejected the chance to return as manager of Real Madrid, according to former club president Ramon Calderon.

Zidane, 46, left the club last summer five days after winning a third straight Champions League title.

Calderon
told BBC Radio 5 Live: “I know that this morning the president
[Florentino Perez] called Zidane to ask him back, he said not now.

“He has left open the possibility of coming back in June.”

Zidane
shocked Real by walking out just days after a famous win against
Liverpool which made him the first manager to win three European Cups in
a row and only the third to win three in total – along with Bob Paisley
and Carlo Ancelotti.

The former France captain has not managed since.

Real are expected to make sweeping changes after their season was effectively ended by a humiliating last-16 defeat to Ajax.

As
well as being out of the Champions League and the Copa del Rey, Real
are third in La Liga, 12 points behind leaders Barcelona.

Real
replaced Zidane with Spain coach Julen Lopetegui – a move that was a
disaster for club, coach and country – but he lasted just four months,
with Santiago Solari eventually taking the reins.

Now the club are expected to replace him with a third coach this season.

‘No point approaching Mourinho’

Calderon
says former Manchester United and Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho – who
managed Real between 2010 and 2013 – is the favourite for the job, but
such a move would be wrong.

“The first option for the president has always, always been Mourinho,” Calderon said.

“But
the problem is who is going to run the club in the office? They are
talking of the possibility of Zidane or Mourinho – they are completely
different coaches with completely different ideas of football.

“It is an erratic and whimsical president who has brought us to this situation.

“There is the option of bringing in Mourinho now, but to me there is no point.

“At
this moment of the season anything you do is going to be wrong, I
suppose that they will wait until the end of the season but this is very
long time, three months, to suffer all the critics and the anger of the
fans.”

Source:- BBC