First Guardiola and Enrique left Barcelona in need of rest and now Zidane has quit Real Madrid. The top of Spanish football has become suffocating
When Zinedine Zidane called time on his highly productive stint as the head of Real Madrid’s ego management department, it was interesting to reflect that this week marked the 20th anniversary of the sacking of Jupp Heynckes, eight days after he had steered the club to its seventh European Cup.
The celebrations had barely finished when Lorenzo Sanz, Real’s president at the time, observed that “this would have been one of the worst seasons in recent years” if Heynckes had not ended his debut campaign by beating Juventus in the Champions League final. The German’s crime was to finish fourth in La Liga, which passes for a crisis at the Bernabéu, and he would not be the last manager to suffer from Madrid’s ruthless self-regard.
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