Zinedine Zidane’s first match in charge of Real Madrid is against this season’s draw specialists of La Liga.
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Zidane was confirmed as Rafael Benitez’s successor at Real two days ago when the decision was taken to hand the Frenchman his first senior managerial post.
The 66-year-old believes that Zidane had won a lottery as he became a manager without any experience. Although the player has indicated that he has no intentions of leaving the London club, history has shown that Real Madrid are persistent when it comes to trying to acquire a player that they want. “I used to play with him and he is a legend in Real Madrid, I love Real Madrid so I hope he is successful there”. Those badges were obtained in the summer and he has remained with Castilla until Monday when Real’s president, Florentino Perez decided to make the change.
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Former QPR and West Ham United boss Redknapp further added: “It (the prospect of a transfer) keeps coming up and it wouldn’t surprise me, given he’s never truly settled there and can’t speak the language very well”. “Win a title might be hard, but the top three is still possible”. With the clout the club carries virtually every player in world football is available to them, but it’s perhaps not in the luxury aisles where Zidane should be doing his shopping… He scored a remarkable volley to lead Madrid to the European title in the 2002 Champions League final against Bayer Leverkusen. Depor have been hard to beat, losing just three times in the league. And the world player of the year fuelled speculation concerning his future by stating several times that he was uncertain what he would do next season. The structure of Barcelona and the solid foundation as they mixed buying players with bringing through youth perfectly is miles ahead of Perez’s dictatorship at Madrid dominated by politics and controversy. Next summer, Perez is expected to make wholesale changes at the club again in order to freshen up the team. “My son is an Arsenal fan so he read it in the paper the other day and I do not think he is happy that I am staying at Watford”.
