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Real Madrid Re-Appoint Zinedine Zidane as Manager After Sacking Santiago Solari

Real Madrid have astonishingly re-appointed Zinedine Zidane as manager, after relieving Santiago Solari of his duties.

Los Blancos have endured a dreadful run of recent results, with back-to-back El Clásico defeats to Barcelona within the space of three days followed up by one of the biggest surprises in Champions League history - as Ajax triumphed 4-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu to dump the holders out 5-3 on aggregate.

President Florentino Perez has now wielded the axe on Solari as expected, but in a stunning turn of events, it's Zidane who has taken over at the club once more on a three and a half-year contract - just under ten months after he resigned and walked away from the club.