Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon has claimed the club’s new manager Zinedine Zidane was second choice behind Jose Mourinho.
Zidane, a Los Blancos legend, was named as the successor to the sacked Rafael Benitez earlier in the week in an appointment that has drawn mixed reactions from Madridistas.
Speaking to the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast Show on talkSPORT, Calderon stated the only reason the club’s former midfielder has been thrust into the hotseat is because Mourinho didn’t want the role:
The chosen one was Mourinho, but he decided not to come now.