Monday, November 22, 2021 at 8:00 PM• Jeroen van Poppel

Real Madrid are watching with fear and trembling at the coaching carousel that has been started by the dismissal of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer from Manchester United, it is known. marca. The Royal is, as is known, fully committed to the transfer-free arrival of Kylian Mbappe next summer, but fears that Zinedine Zidane who left last summer may throw a spanner in the works at the last minute.

Manchester United had Zidane according to The Times looking to replace Solskjaer. The Frenchman has, according to the BBC However, definitively let the English top club know that they are not interested. According to the renowned British broadcaster, United is therefore switching to Mauricio Pochettino. The current Paris Saint-Germain coach is open to a return to the Premier League.

RMC Sports added that Pochettino’s possible departure from PSG could pave the way for Zidane’s arrival. It is a long-cherished wish of the Qatari owners to put the three-time World Footballer of the Year as a trainer for the PSG player group. However, that is not concrete at the moment: there is no formal offer from United for Pochettino, and PSG has not yet reached out to Zidane.

Nevertheless, Real Madrid fears the developments that are going on in the field of trainers, according to marca. The Spaniards failed to take Mbappe away from PSG for more than 200 million euros last summer and want to sign the 22-year-old attacker after the season on a free transfer. Nothing seemed to stand in the way of Mbappe’s move to Real, but the arrival of Zidane, an icon in France, could change that.

Mbappe already revealed last year that he is a great admirer of Zidane. The attacker told in conversation with the players Tribune about a meeting he had with Zidane in his youth. “Just before my fourteenth birthday, I got an incredible surprise,” Mbappé wrote. “My father got a call from someone at Real Madrid who invited me to come to Spain to train during the school holidays. I was in shock because my father was literally said, ‘Zidane wants to see your son’. Zidane was sporting director at the time. Of course I was very enthusiastic, I wanted to go so badly.”