Football news - Ramon Calderon – Zinedine Zidane has already rejected Real return

ByEurosport

Updated 06/03/2019 at 19:07 GMT

Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon has claimed that the club’s ex-manager Zinedine Zidane has rejected an immediate return to take over the club.

Zidane replaced Rafa Benitez as manager of Real in January 2016 and led Los Blancos to three successive Champions League titles before stepping away last summer.

However following Real’s terrible recent form under Santiago Solari it had been suggested that Zidane could make a dramatic return to the Bernabeu.

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Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live however Calderon said that he has been told that Zidane has already rejected the chance to return but would be open to a potential reunion in the summer.

"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 is reportedly interested in the Juventus job, another of his former clubs, should Max Allegri decide to leave.

Zinédine Zidane

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Calderon added that another former Real manager, Jose Mourinho, would be under consideration but it wouldn't be a decision he would support.

"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."

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