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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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