4 problems at Real Madrid that appointing Zinedine Zidane will not solve

#4 He may not want to solve the issues between senior players and the club

Zidane may not wish to jettison senior players like Sergio Ramos

It’s no secret that Real Madrid haven’t exactly been a steady ship recently – most notably, there have been reports of serious problems between the club’s upper management, namely President Florentino Perez and some senior players like Sergio Ramos. Ramos and Perez supposedly had an angry confrontation following Real’s loss to Ajax last week, and question marks also surround the future of other veterans such as Marcelo and Gareth Bale.

Perez could well have brought in a manager who’d be more willing to cut some of the senior players from the squad and look to start afresh – the rumour last summer prior to Julen Lopetegui’s appointment was that Perez had Antonio Conte in line to do such a job – but by bringing back Zidane, he’s probably appointed a man who’s more likely to embrace senior players such as Ramos rather than jettison them.

That’s because it was the likes of Ramos, Marcelo and Karim Benzema who helped Zidane to be such a massive success during his first period as Real manager. To put it simply, the likelihood of Zidane attempting to clear the squad of older players who may be past their prime seems minimal, because why would the Frenchman attempt to remove players who did so well under him the first time around?

If Perez was looking for a boss to usher in a new era at the Bernabeu, then Zidane may not be that boss – and any hope of Real clearing some of the dead wood from their squad and starting afresh is highly unlikely, leaving them with a similar problem to that currently faced by Chelsea.