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#3 Spain drama
Florentino Perez owes him this much. After the fiasco with Spain, Florentino Perez – known more for his business acumen and less for mercy – should stick with Julen Lopetegui no matter what.
While the construction magnate revealed that Spanish FA knew about Madrid’s approach from the very beginning, he needs to shoulder the responsibility of approaching a coach just days before their World Cup campaign was to begin.
It was not as though Lopetegui was highly in demand at the time and that clubs were approaching him left, right and center. Perez could have easily waited till the end of the World Cup and still gotten his man.
However, he did not. In the end, no matter what happened behind the scene, some of the fault for Lopetegui’s Spain demise has to go to Perez.
And that is why he owes Lopetegui at least that much.
