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Locked in the office, with their mobiles turned off and the time against,
Florentino Pérez
and
José Ángel Sánchez
analyzed this Thursday the list of candidates to replace
Zinedine Zidane
on the
Real Madrid
bench
. The club assures that it is not in a hurry to make the final decision, but the news of the French coach's departure may have caused a domino on the
European football benches
. A few hours before Zidane's goodbye,
Inter
announced the surprising agreement for the termination of
Antonio Conte's
contract
, who made
the
Nerazzurri
champions of the
Scudetto
a few days ago
. And a couple of hours after the official statement from Madrid, in France rumors about an alleged disagreement between the management of PSG and
Mauricio Pochettino
, an object of Madrid's desire for years
, were accelerating
.
The reality is that the upper echelons of Madrid want a coach with
extensive experience
, as this newspaper has learned.
A characteristic that would rule out for the moment the option of
Raúl making
the jump to the first team.
The former merengue footballer, who led
Castilla
until the promotion phase to Second, was one of the favorite faces after the excellent performance that Madrid achieved by trusting Zidane, who took the reins after a brief stint at the subsidiary.
But the Frenchman, yes, had been
Ancelotti's
assistant in
the year of the Tenth.
Not so Raúl, who has offers from the Bundesliga but awaits the club's final decision.
In
Valdebebas
they know that the '7' will sit on the bench one day.
Pochettino was close in 2018
The shortlist of candidates is then covered in the front line with Pochettino and Conte.
The former was close to signing with the Whites after Zidane's first goodbye, in the
summer of 2018
, but
Daniel Levy
, Tottenham's chief executive, did not facilitate the operation and asked for significant compensation to free his coach.
The Argentine ended up leading Spurs to the
2019 Champions League final
and now he has just lost the French league to
PSG
after winning the Super Cup and the Cup in France, his first titles on the bench.
Espanyol, Southampton, Tottenham and PSG
form a curriculum of more than a decade with stops in the League, the Premier and Ligue 1. The good treatment between the Sheikh and Florentino and the differences between the coach and Leonardo, Parisian sports director, could open the doors of the Bernabéu to a leader who has always had good words for Madrid: "
When Madrid calls you, you have to listen to him
, but it does not depend on me," he said in 2018, in a few words that may be valid today.
Easier would be the signing of
Antonio Conte
, free after his departure from Inter. The character of the Italian convinces to carry out the necessary reconstruction in the squad but, at the same time, puts fear to a direction that advocates a technician with more spirit.
Four leagues and two Super Cups in Italy with Inter and Juventus
, a
Premier
and an
FA Cup
with Chelsea in England, and a loss on penalties in the quarterfinals of Euro 2016 with the transalpine team culminate a career with more titles and more name than the by Pochettino. He was also close in the summer of 2018, but Madrid settled on
Lopetegui
. By numbers perhaps it would be the most logical option. With
Allegri
On the way to Juventus, in a lower rung would be
Joachim Löw
, who has sounded for several summers as a candidate for the Madrid bench and who will leave the leadership of the German team after the European Championship.
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