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#3 Laurent Blanc
The 52-year-old former French international is another manager who fits the bill as a potential replacement for Lopetegui as Real Madrid coach.
Blanc had a distinguished playing career, representing some of the biggest clubs in the world including Inter Milan, Barcelona and Manchester United, winning a plethora of titles during his playing days.
He was also a seasoned international, making 97 appearances for the French national team across three different cades, and won the biggest trophy in football; the World Cup in 1998, in addition to a European Championship two years later, so the players in the Madrid dressing room can identify with him as a former superstar.
His coaching CV, is also pretty impressive, as after cutting his teeth at Bordeaux where he led the modest club to a surprise Ligue 1 triumph in 2008, he moved on to PSG in 2013, where the club's dominance of French football truly started.
Under his guidance, the Parisian club won 11 of the 12 domestic trophies available, including three consecutive Ligue 1 titles, with their only failure coming in the 2013/2014 Coupe de France, which was won by Guingamp.
His spell at PSG brought him in contact with some of the biggest names in football, including Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani and Thiago Silva, so he wouldn't be out of place managing the superstars at Real Madrid.
He has been out of management since parting company with PSG on 2016, but an offer to coach the biggest club in the world and test himself on the big stages once more would undoubtedly tempt the Ales born former defender out of his golf playing vacation.
