Spanish news outlet, Mundo Deportivo has reported that Real Madrid have touted Joachim Löw to be Zinedine Zidane’s replacement in the managerial seat. Florentino Perez highly admires the German who has won the FIFA 2014 World Cup and 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup with his country. Following Madrid’s struggle to even finish the season in the Champions League spots, Perez will have to make the hard choice of firing the one of the club’s cherished treasure.
Zidane, like every manager in the footballing community, has been at the end of all the blame for Real’s shambolic performances in the current season. The Galactico have bowed out of the Copa Del Rey with a 1-2 loss to Leganes and are currently staged in the 4th spot of the La Liga table. Villareal are just 2 points behind and are eager to topple the European champions from the top 4. With such a shambolic display in domestic competitions, Perez’s expectations have lowered for his club to win the prestigious UEFA Champions League trophy a third consecutive time.
Their arch rivals are looking stronger than ever perched at the top and the likes of Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and Bayern Munich will be hard to match up to with such a low morale squad. Sure, some of the blame obviously will land on the manager whose entire managerial career extends to the length of the past two-and-a-half years only but nobody is taking into account the mental fatigue that a team suffers after performing at their very best for a prolonged period of time.
We currently are witnessing the same thing with Chelsea in the Premier League. However, a lack of enthusiasm or motivation to keep winning is not entertained at the Santiago Bernabeu and Zidane is in peril of losing his job in the summer. Perez is known for his ruthless operational tactic to drop the axe on any official who fails to perform to his utmost abilities even for a single season.
The real question lies in whether Löw will be the correct fit with the Spanish giants? The 58-year-old has been with the German national team since 2004. His managerial career hardly boasts of any top-flight club football having spent most of his time in the lower divisions of Germany or at Turkey.
He has been the spearhead of the current generation of German players who have dominated the World stage in international competitions over the past 4 years. He is expected to lead the team to a consecutive World Cup win in June and might not be suited for the pressures of club football. It is no secret the amount of excellence that Madrid will demand and Löw will have a hard time returning to that gruelling task.
