French Zinedine Zidane has joined the list of candidates to train Newcastle, whose ownership is being transferred from businessman Mike Ashley to the Saudi Investment Fund for $ 360 million. With his club Real Madrid.
"Newcastle, with its Saudi administration, plans to lure Zidane with $ 25 million annually to persuade him to give up the task of training Real Madrid and moving to lead the new Saudi project," the Spanish newspaper, Defense Central, said.
The newspaper added that "Zidane is currently studying the offer, especially as Newcastle seeks to build a competing team for the tournaments through the association of the club's name with negotiations with Brazilian Philippe Coutinho, French Antoine Griezmann, and the Welsh Gareth Bale."
The new management of the club had opened communication channels with brilliant coaches in the European stadiums to lead the team from next season, most notably: former Tottenham coach Mauricio Pocitinho, former Newcastle coach and Dalian Weifang, currently Spain's Rafael Bentez, and former Milan and Juventus coach Massimiliano Alegre, and coach Rome and former Inter Milan Luciano Spalletti.
At a time when Pochettino was the closest to take over the job for 23 million dollars as he is not currently linked to any club - according to the British "Mirror" - "Zizou" entered the negotiating line and became more likely to take over the job if he agreed to the offer.
Zidane led Real Madrid in January 2016, before he separated from him in May 2018, then returned to him in March 2019, and his contract with the Royal Club is currently extended until June 2022, and "Zizou" with "Al Miraini" achieved an unprecedented historical achievement by winning The European Champions League three times in a row and the Spanish League title, Spanish Super Cup once, European Super Cup, Club World Cup twice, and individually he won the award of the best coach in the world for 2017.
Newcastle Coaches Coaches
French Zinedine Zidane,
Argentine, Mauricio Pociteno,
Spain's Rafael Bentez,
Italian, Massimiliano Alegre
, Luciano Spalletti.