Zinedine Zidane
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Birdy
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"Zidane will CRITICIZE the club on his letter tomorrow, according to @diarioas. On Zidane's letter tomorrow, he says that the lack of support from the club is one of the main reasons he left. He will use very tough words that he never used before.Zidane's letter on @diarioas will mention PROBLEMS with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez"
HOLY SHIT!!!
CatalinR10
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Messigician
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El Flaco
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Zidane published an open letter in today's edition of AS Diario's newspaper about why he left Real Madrid.
https://imgur.com/a/rNiT4bL
https://en.as.com/en/2021/05/31/football/1622417445_986023.html
Dear Real Madrid fans,
For more than 20 years, from the first day I arrived in Madrid and wore the white shirt, you’ve shown me your love. I’ve always felt that there was something special between us. I’ve had the enormous honour of being a player and the coach of the greatest club ever, but above all I’m just another Madrid fan. For all these reasons I wanted to write this letter, to say goodbye to you and explain my decision to leave the coaching job.
When, in March 2019, I accepted the offer to return to Madrid after a break of eight months it was, of course, because President Florentino P?rez asked me, but also because all of you asked me every day to do so. When I met any of you in the street I felt your support and the desire to see me with the team again. Because I share the values of Real Madrid; this club belongs to its members, its fans and the entire world. I’ve tried to follow these values in everything I have done, and I’ve tried to be an example.
Being at Madrid for 20 years is the most beautiful thing that’s happened to me in my life and I know I owe that entirely to the fact Florentino P?rez backed me in 2001, he fought to get me, to bring me here when some people were against it. I say it from the heart when I say that I will always be grateful to the ‘presi’ for that. Always.
I have now decided to leave and I want to properly explain the reasons. I’m going, but I’m not jumping overboard, nor am I tired of coaching. In May 2018 I left because after two and a half years, with so many victories and so many trophies, I felt the team needed a new approach to stay at the very highest level.
Right now, things are different. I’m leaving because I feel the club no longer has the faith in me I need, nor the support to build something in the medium or long term. I understand football and I know the demands of a club like Real Madrid. I know when you don’t win, you have to leave. But with this a very important thing has been forgotten, everything I built day-to-day has been forgotten, what I brought to my relationships with the players, with the 150 people who work with and around the team.
I’m a natural-born winner and I was here to win trophies, but even more important than this are the people, their feelings, life itself and I have the sensation these things have not been taken into account, that there has been a failure to understand that these things also keep the dynamics of a great club going. To some extent I have even been rebuked for it.
I want there to be respect for what we have achieved together. I would have liked my relationship with the club and the president over the past few months to have been a little different to that of other coaches. I wasn’t asking for privileges, of course not, just a little more recollection. These days the life of a coach in the dugout at a big club is two seasons, little more. For it to last longer the human relationships are essential, they are more important than money, more important than fame, more important than everything. They need to be nurtured.
That’s why it hurt me so much when I read in the press, after a defeat, that I would be sacked if I didn’t win the next game. It hurt me and the whole team because these deliberately leaked messages to the media negatively influenced the squad, they created doubts and misunderstandings. Luckily I had these amazing lads who were with me to the death. When things turned ugly they saved me with magnificent victories. Because they believed in me and knew I believed in them.
Of course I’m not the best coach in the world, but I’m able to give everyone, whether it’s a player, a member of the coaching staff or any employee, the strength and confidence they need in their job. I know perfectly well what a team needs. Over these 20 years at Madrid I’ve learnt that you, the fans, want to win, of course, but above all you want us to give our all: the coach, the staff, the employees and of course the players. And I can assure you we’ve given 100% of ourselves to this club.
I’d like to take this opportunity to send a message to the journalists. I’ve given hundreds of press conferences and unfortunately we have spoken very little of football, though I know that you love football, this sport that brings us together.
However, and without any desire to criticise or lecture, I would have liked the questions not to have always been about controversy, that we might have talked more often about the game and above all the players, who are and always will be the most important thing in this sport. Let’s not forget about football, let’s care for it.
Dear Madrid fans, I will always be one of you.
Hala Madrid!
Zinedine Zidane
https://imgur.com/a/rNiT4bL
https://en.as.com/en/2021/05/31/football/1622417445_986023.html
Dear Real Madrid fans,
For more than 20 years, from the first day I arrived in Madrid and wore the white shirt, you’ve shown me your love. I’ve always felt that there was something special between us. I’ve had the enormous honour of being a player and the coach of the greatest club ever, but above all I’m just another Madrid fan. For all these reasons I wanted to write this letter, to say goodbye to you and explain my decision to leave the coaching job.
When, in March 2019, I accepted the offer to return to Madrid after a break of eight months it was, of course, because President Florentino P?rez asked me, but also because all of you asked me every day to do so. When I met any of you in the street I felt your support and the desire to see me with the team again. Because I share the values of Real Madrid; this club belongs to its members, its fans and the entire world. I’ve tried to follow these values in everything I have done, and I’ve tried to be an example.
Being at Madrid for 20 years is the most beautiful thing that’s happened to me in my life and I know I owe that entirely to the fact Florentino P?rez backed me in 2001, he fought to get me, to bring me here when some people were against it. I say it from the heart when I say that I will always be grateful to the ‘presi’ for that. Always.
I have now decided to leave and I want to properly explain the reasons. I’m going, but I’m not jumping overboard, nor am I tired of coaching. In May 2018 I left because after two and a half years, with so many victories and so many trophies, I felt the team needed a new approach to stay at the very highest level.
Right now, things are different. I’m leaving because I feel the club no longer has the faith in me I need, nor the support to build something in the medium or long term. I understand football and I know the demands of a club like Real Madrid. I know when you don’t win, you have to leave. But with this a very important thing has been forgotten, everything I built day-to-day has been forgotten, what I brought to my relationships with the players, with the 150 people who work with and around the team.
I’m a natural-born winner and I was here to win trophies, but even more important than this are the people, their feelings, life itself and I have the sensation these things have not been taken into account, that there has been a failure to understand that these things also keep the dynamics of a great club going. To some extent I have even been rebuked for it.
I want there to be respect for what we have achieved together. I would have liked my relationship with the club and the president over the past few months to have been a little different to that of other coaches. I wasn’t asking for privileges, of course not, just a little more recollection. These days the life of a coach in the dugout at a big club is two seasons, little more. For it to last longer the human relationships are essential, they are more important than money, more important than fame, more important than everything. They need to be nurtured.
That’s why it hurt me so much when I read in the press, after a defeat, that I would be sacked if I didn’t win the next game. It hurt me and the whole team because these deliberately leaked messages to the media negatively influenced the squad, they created doubts and misunderstandings. Luckily I had these amazing lads who were with me to the death. When things turned ugly they saved me with magnificent victories. Because they believed in me and knew I believed in them.
Of course I’m not the best coach in the world, but I’m able to give everyone, whether it’s a player, a member of the coaching staff or any employee, the strength and confidence they need in their job. I know perfectly well what a team needs. Over these 20 years at Madrid I’ve learnt that you, the fans, want to win, of course, but above all you want us to give our all: the coach, the staff, the employees and of course the players. And I can assure you we’ve given 100% of ourselves to this club.
I’d like to take this opportunity to send a message to the journalists. I’ve given hundreds of press conferences and unfortunately we have spoken very little of football, though I know that you love football, this sport that brings us together.
However, and without any desire to criticise or lecture, I would have liked the questions not to have always been about controversy, that we might have talked more often about the game and above all the players, who are and always will be the most important thing in this sport. Let’s not forget about football, let’s care for it.
Dear Madrid fans, I will always be one of you.
Hala Madrid!
Zinedine Zidane
Luftstalag14
Culé de Celestial Empire
Those are not very tough words.
El Gato
Villarato!
Lol [MENTION=15376]DonAK[/MENTION] Ofc he left on bad terms.
It's an odd letter really. Not saying anything other than "I didn't manage to do better in short term and wasn't trusted long term". Western antiMadrid media will pick it up and some managers may now change mind and stay away, but club didn't really do things wrong this season. In business sense.
It's an odd letter really. Not saying anything other than "I didn't manage to do better in short term and wasn't trusted long term". Western antiMadrid media will pick it up and some managers may now change mind and stay away, but club didn't really do things wrong this season. In business sense.
Barcilliant
Senior Member
Basically he said he felt let down by Perez because he didn't get the support to build long term.
This man is a legend. I wish he had played and managed us.
What a dipshit Perez is.
This man is a legend. I wish he had played and managed us.
What a dipshit Perez is.
Messigician
Senior Member
Bullshit.
Dude wanted hazard and was supported with 300m he squandered.
Jovic, Hazard flops.
Llorente, Odrio, Reguillon all sold as Zidane didn't rate em
Perez has done the right thing with that fraud
El Gato
Villarato!
And he didn't get the support, because he continued to repeat previous mistakes as opposed to fix them.
Waited way too long to incorporate promising players, sometimes never even doing, or when doing it, his hand was forced several times by injuries.
Equally waited too long to let the president know his intentions resulting in Nagelsmann getting scooped up when he was clearly one of the better choices willing to listen.
He's gonna lose the little good faith he had with fans now since he put the focus on 'work' and his long-term vision (of which he didn't show a whole lot, even with limited opportunity to do so) rather than for example the budget limitations stifling things.
Looks like it'll take a good few years before he's back, possibly even not before Perez and the current board are gone.
No surprise, nothing to see here.
Horatio
You're welcome
Respect him for what he's done. But some people already saying he is one of the greatest coaches is cringe. Curious as to see what he will up to now. Imo not much but hope he can prove me wrong.
Also hope he shows more personality. This extreme gentleman act is growing tiresome.
Wish him best.
Also hope he shows more personality. This extreme gentleman act is growing tiresome.
Wish him best.
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Birdy
Senior Member
Some heavy digs from Zidane towards Perez and his board:
"I’m leaving because I feel the club no longer has the faith in me I need, nor the support to build something in the medium or long term"
" I wasn’t asking for privileges, of course not, just a little more recollection. These days the life of a coach in the dugout at a big club is two seasons, little more."
"That’s why it hurt me so much when I read in the press, after a defeat, that I would be sacked if I didn’t win the next game. It hurt me and the whole team because these deliberately leaked messages to the media negatively influenced the squad, they created doubts and misunderstandings."
Apparently Guillem Balague was right, and that was not a tabloid rumor [MENTION=5226]El Gato[/MENTION]
Now it's clear what the message of the letter is:
Zidane wanted more respect and trust, and not to be treated like the first coach out there Perez hires (and fires after a bad result).
That will be a good lesson for moronic, when it comes to coaches, Florentino who thinks you can win by changing a coach every now and then
"I’m leaving because I feel the club no longer has the faith in me I need, nor the support to build something in the medium or long term"
" I wasn’t asking for privileges, of course not, just a little more recollection. These days the life of a coach in the dugout at a big club is two seasons, little more."
"That’s why it hurt me so much when I read in the press, after a defeat, that I would be sacked if I didn’t win the next game. It hurt me and the whole team because these deliberately leaked messages to the media negatively influenced the squad, they created doubts and misunderstandings."
Apparently Guillem Balague was right, and that was not a tabloid rumor [MENTION=5226]El Gato[/MENTION]
Now it's clear what the message of the letter is:
Zidane wanted more respect and trust, and not to be treated like the first coach out there Perez hires (and fires after a bad result).
That will be a good lesson for moronic, when it comes to coaches, Florentino who thinks you can win by changing a coach every now and then
Horatio
You're welcome
That's how he got his 3 CL's though.
Birdy
Senior Member
It worked once.
Let's start listing the coaches with which this approach did not work...
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