#Zinedine #Zidane has turned down the #Manchester #United #job
despite being ‘tempted’ to take over at #Old #Trafford, reports #say.
The Frenchman is currently out of work after leaving Real Madrid.
And a move to the Premier League, it seems, isn’t on the #cards.
Zidane was successful during his two stints at Real Madrid,
winning three #Champions League titles on the spin as well as La
Liga on two occasions.
However, he left back in the summer after his relationship with
Florentino Perez fell apart.
Now, with #Zidane available, the 49-year-old has been heavily linked
with a move to Old Trafford at a time where Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
is fighting on.
The Norwegian’s side have lost six of their last 12 matches across
all competitions, including humblings to the likes of Liverpool,
Manchester City and #Leicester.
And with the Red Devils’ campaign going from bad to worse, talk
of Zidane taking over has gathered #momentum.
However, according to Mundo Deportivo, the former Juventus and
Bordeaux midfielder has now declined the role
And that’s despite initially being ‘#tempted’ to take over from
#Solskjaer.
#Zidane, it’s #stated, is now wanted by #Qatari side Al-Sadd to replace
#Xavi – who recently left the #Middle East to return to Barcelona as a
replacement for #Ronald #Koeman.
Yet his preference would be to manage #France.
And it’s also #claimed he wouldn’t rule out of the Paris Saint-
Germain job, something that could work in United’s #favour.
The Glazers and Ed Woodward have long admired Mauricio
Pochettino, who currently rules the roost at the Parc des Princes.
And, should Zidane take over, that would give United a window of
opportunity to bring #Pochettino to Old Trafford.
The two men aren’t the only people being tipped for the job at the
current #moment in time.
Erik ten Hag and Brendan Rodgers have been linked, though both
have made it known they’re happy in their current roles at Ajax and
Leicester respectively.
And Ralf Rangnick’s combative nature has seen him ruled out,
despite the fine work he’s done at RB Leipzig and Hoffenheim in
the past.
Zidane, meanwhile, hit out at Perez when leaving Real Madrid
earlier in the year.
“Dear Real Madrid fans, for more than 20 years, from the first day I
arrived in Madrid and wore the white shirt, you’ve shown me your
love,” he said upon exiting the #Bernabeu.
“I wanted to write this letter, to say goodbye to you and explain my
decision to leave the coaching job.
“I’m going, but I’m not jumping overboard, nor am I tired of
#coaching.
“In May 2018 I left because after two and a half years, with so
many victories and so many trophies, I felt the team needed a new
approach to stay at the very highest #level.
“Right now, things are different. I’m leaving because I feel the club
no longer has the faith in me I need, nor the #support to build
something in the medium or long term.
“I understand #football and I know the demands of a club like Real
Madrid. I know when you don’t win, you have to leave.
“Right now, things are different. I’m leaving because I feel the club
no longer has the faith in me I need, nor the support to build
something in the medium or long term.
“I understand football and I know the demands of a club like Real
Madrid. I know when you don’t win, you have to leave.
“But with this a very important thing has been forgotten, everything
I built day-to-day has been forgotten, what I brought to my
relationships with the players, with the 150 people who work with
and around the #team.
“I’m a natural-born winner and I was here to win trophies, but even
more important than this are the people, their feelings, life itself
and I have the sensation these things have not been taken into
account, that there has been a failure to understand that these
things also keep the dynamics of a great club going. To some
extent I have even been rebuked for it.
“I want there to be respect for what we have achieved together.
“I would have liked my relationship with the club and the president
over the past few months to have been a little different to that of
other coaches. I wasn’t asking for privileges, of course not, just a
little more recollection.
“These days the life of a coach in the dugout at a big club is two
seasons, little more.
“For it to last longer the human relationships are essential, they are
more important than money, more important than fame, more
important than everything. They need to be nurtured.
“That’s why it hurt me so much when I read in the press, after a
defeat, that I would be sacked if I didn’t win the next #game.
“It hurt me and the whole team because these deliberately leaked
messages to the media negatively influenced the squad, they
created doubts and misunderstandings.
“Luckily I had these amazing lads who were with me to the death.
“When things turned ugly they saved me with magnificent victories.
Because they believed in me and knew I believed in them.”
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