This is a bad move. No matter how many ways you want to try and swing it, Zidane as the coach of Real Madrid at this particular moment in time, will not do him any favors. As someone who is a legend of the game, the worst thing is for that mystique to begin wearing off if he bricks it up from the dugout with Real.
Sacking Benitez was a dumb idea. He should have at least been given to the end of the season, and then the chop should have come. To do it right in the middle of a season, where they are chasing Barcelona, is totally stupid. You mess with the mentality of the team and you leave them in disarray, especially when you realize that Ancelotti was sacked only last summer.
Zidane might suprise people. The players obviously like and respect him, and he may be able to get the best out of his star players. His strength would perhaps be the man-to-man management, which Benitez failed at. Being able to communicate and get everyone on the same page mentally, is very important in building a winning team. If your players are not happy, they are not going to play well.
But that's not all there is to management. There is the strategic, technical side where it's all nut and bolts. Knowing about formations, substitutions, tweaks to a team's shape are all things that you learn from coaching different clubs. These are things that you are not just born with, but you learn on the job. Zidane doesn't have that advantage. He's been shoved right in the meat grinder, and when he will be called upon to make a tactical move to win a match, I'm not going to bet on him knowing what to do.
I hope he succeeds, as I loved him as a player. Any fan who watched him play, will be rooting for him. Even if he does totally screw up, it won't diminish what he achieved as a player. Maradona is a perfect example. His coaching career never really took off with very few highlights, but he's still regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time. So Zidane's street cred is intact. But it would be sad to see him falter at a job that shouldn't have been handed to him under such circumstances.
Ergo...Perez is an imbecile.
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