4 reasons why no one wants the Real Madrid job

When the chance to manage a club with a rich history and resources such as Real Madrid became available you would normally believe that they would be spoilt for choice with the job proving an irresistible lure to every manager in the world.

You don't always get a chance to manage the Champions League winners including some of the world's top players with a virtually unlimited transfer budget. This is a dream scenario that every manager would want.

But over the past week, several managers have reportedly rejected the chance to succeed Zidane such as Mauricio Pochettino, Max Allegri, Antonio Conte and Joachim Low who all have quickly distanced themselves from the job when they were linked.

What was expected to be an easy task has turned into an arduous one for Florentino Perez with very few managers seemingly wanting the job.

This has forced the Madrid hierarchy to consider appointing youth team coaches such as Guti and Santiago Solari or unemployed managers such as Arsene Wenger.

What was supposedly the most tempting job on offer once has now supposedly turned into a poisoned chalice.

Here's why:

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#4 Lack of Job Security

Pochettino renewed his contract with Spurs just days before Zidane resigned

It may be the most glamorous job on the planet, but it is the least rewarding one in terms of recognition and it drains managers emotionally and physically so much so that it leaves a permanent scar on them, just ask Jose Mourinho who is not the same manager he was after leaving Madrid under a heavy cloud.

Madrid fans and Perez are an insatiable bunch who always want more as even Zidane was not sure of his job till he won the Champions League (reportedly) which eventually contributed to his decision to leave on a high and on his own terms rather than suffer the ignominy of a sacking.

Being the manager of Madrid means that you get the blame if your team isn't performing and the sack; if your team wins, well you don't get much of the credit anyway.

This is why managers such as Pochettino and Low, both of whom recently signed a new contract with their respective club and national teams and Allegri, who recently committed himself to Juventus, were not ready to leave their safe homes for the everyday struggle that is the Real Madrid job.

After all, why would you leave a well-paid settled job for a job where the perks are high but the possibility that you would be out of a job in six months or a year's time with also the probability that your reputation and credibility is tarnished??

You do the math.

#3 The Unenviable task of succeeding Zidane

Zinedine Zidane's achievements at Madrid are sure to be not assimilated soon enough

How do you do better than a Manager who has won 9 trophies in just two and half years at the club at the rate of a trophy every 16.5 games with a hat-trick of Champions League with an astonishing 70% win rate in all competitions.

The answer is it's nigh impossible and it will be an uphill task for the next manager to even match Zidane's achievements at Madrid over the last two and a half years.

Zidane performed so well at Madrid that he thought even he could not emulate him next season, citing it as one of the reasons why he stepped down when the time was right.

It is already a high-pressure job with the margin for error being very low and Zidane's achievements over the last few years have racketed the pressure up a notch making the job even more difficult than it already was.

#2 Power Play

Perez has fallen victim to his own deeds

Zidane met with the Madrid hierarchy including Perez before he announced his decision to resign and it has since been reported that Zidane and Perez didn't see eye to eye on the transfer targets which forced Zidane to resign.

Madrid is a club where Perez and the superstar players such as Ronaldo, Ramos etc hold all the cards with the manager having little to no say in everything.

Zidane beautifully managed the egos within the squad and his handling of Perez was exceptional, but it eventually proved too much even for him to the point that he felt that he couldn't take the pressure anymore.

One of the reasons why Klopp was not even considered it that he will certainly demand more say in transfers and if it's one thing Perez hates, it is giving up power.

Pochettino and Allegri have the final say when it comes to transfer targets at the respective clubs and are more involved in the day to day running of the club.

#1 Timing right for Zidane, but not Madrid

Klopp and Poch are both not in a position to leave their respective clubs at this time

The overriding sense once the initial euphoria of Zidane's resignation subsided was that he had got the timing right once again and that he jumped a sinking ship at the right time. Zidane said as much in his press conference, with him quoting

'It’s not as simple as just staying. I think it would be difficult to keep winning if I stayed.

But the timing was all wrong for Real Madrid as he left the job at a time when all of their top candidates to replace him were unavailable or unwilling to take the job at this particular moment.

Pochettino and Low, their top targets had just recently extended their stay with their Club and National side and other targets such as Allegri and Klopp were not ready to leave their respective clubs at this juncture.

Madrid would have ideally preferred another club legend Guti, their current Castilla coach to take over from Zidane in a few years time but Zidane's sudden resignation has put a spanner in their plans as he is too inexperienced at this point to take on a job as demanding as Real Madrid.

For president Florentino Perez all this is a major headache, but he has had 11 coaches in his 13 years as president so this is not new to him.

It's just no surprise that with such a philosophy top coaches in big jobs nowadays are not falling over themselves to tear up their contracts for a brief shot at glory.

And therein lies the problem.