In France as in Spain, the uncertainty around the future of Zinedine Zidane and Kylian Mbappé is at the center of all concerns. Especially those of Real Madrid, who have only one wish: to bring the two together at Casa Blanca next season. For several weeks, Zidane has been evading all questions about his near future and casts doubt on a possible resignation, as in May 2018. As never had been known since his beginnings as a coach, throughout the season, he was very annoyed and hurt by the criticisms of the media against him and especially by the lack of public support from his leaders. Linked to the Madrid club until June 2022, Zizou already warned them last weekend: if they wish to dismiss him at the end of the season, he "will not pose a problem".
And according to some voices within the merengue club, this eventuality could even relieve him. The French coach would doubt in particular the future sports planning of his leaders and the necessary renovation of the workforce, which never really took place and which he was already claiming when he resigned three years ago. Mbappé, Kanté, Pogba… He has only very rarely obtained the players he wanted. A regeneration made even more complicated by the financial difficulties currently going through by Real. If the interest of Juventus is real, no contact has been established for the moment with the French coach. Unpredictable and indecipherable, Zidane wants to wait until the end of the season before making a decision on his future. And it is obviously he, and he alone, who will decide whether or not to continue.
Retain Zidane to attract Mbappé and recruit Mbappé to retain Zidane
Because Florentino Pérez has no intention of sacking him.
The president of Real also knows full well that to satisfy his obsessive desire to recruit Kylian Mbappé this summer, keep Zidane, who has had a privileged relationship for many years with the Parisian, represents a weighty argument.
The two men appreciate each other and exchange regularly by messages.
The Blues striker has never hidden his admiration for Zizou.
The reverse is reciprocal.
When he returned to the head of Real in March 2019, the first condition the Frenchman placed on Pérez was the recruitment of Mbappé.
And when a question is asked about the PSG striker at a press conference, Zidane always takes care to be complimentary to "Kylian
".
The only foreign player to his team for whom he makes an exception and does not dodge questions.
A communication calculated to show him that his will to see him evolve under his orders remains intact.
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Even if within the White House, it is assured that the recruitment of Mbappé is not linked to the maintenance of Zidane, his arrival could strongly encourage him to stay. He who, aware of the offensive shortcomings of his team, claims since the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo a striker capable of having the same efficiency. Nor is it certain that Mbappé is determined to join Real if his idol and the one who has courted him for years is no longer in office. Without Zidane, his recruitment may be much less fluid. Their destinies at Real Madrid therefore seem well and truly linked. Florentino Pérez knows this all too well. In the Madrid arcana, we are also sure to be very optimistic about the transfer of Mbappé, saying that the negotiations with the player would be very advanced and the agreement almost completed.Everything would depend on whether or not PSG will sell its star this summer.