“Confirmed… Coach Zinedine Zidane will be there next week in Riyadh.” It was two weeks ago, from a Saudi journalist who wanted to be well informed. Another failure, and the future of Zinedine Zidane is still uncertain. From OM to PSG via the French team, Juventus and Real Madrid, the former number 10 has been cited almost everywhere in recent months. He currently remains free, by choice.
But a return to the sidelines is starting to itch. And a serious option will probably present itself to him soon. Real Madrid must anticipate a possible departure of Carlo Ancelotti at the end of the season, and as assured El Chiringuito, Zinedine Zidane is the number 1 option considered by Madrid management to succeed the Italian coach. The latter is insistently announced as the next coach of Brazil, even if the blow has died down a little recently, thanks to the good results of interim Fernando Diniz.
Zidane to secure the Mbappé coup
Forced to prepare for this eventuality, Real Madrid has not forgotten its Zizou, who was on the bench between 2016 and 2018 then between 2019 and 2021. Since the Parisian or Saudi projects do not seem to interest him too much, Casa Blanca stays in good place. Moreover, contacts would be maintained between the two parties. In addition, Spanish leaders say that a return of Zidane to the bench would be likely to definitively convince Kylian Mbappé to sign up at the end of the current season.
A strong argument in favor of Zidane, who saw his hope of taking charge of the French team disappear with the successful run during the World Cup in Qatar and the extension of Didier Deschamps until 2026. Asked about his future two days ago during a festive event with Juventus, he declared: “For the future, I have no news now. I’m with the family and we’ll see later”. It remains to be seen whether the later will correspond to the end of the Real Madrid season…
