Ten months after he walked out on Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane is back. He's signed a contract until June 2022 and been empowered to oversee the sort of radical overhaul of the squad he felt was necessary at the end of last season but felt then he would not be be supported in making.
It’s undeniable now that this is a squad that has reached the end of the line, and club president Florentino Perez has seemingly acquiesced to Zidane’s demands with reports of a transfer kitty in excess of $400 million. Whatever problems Zidane foresaw when he stepped down as manager last May, it’s hard to believe he imagined things would go as drastically wrong as they have.