Zinedine Zidane
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Like all coaches, a workforce built for winning. In addition to his salary of 12 million euros per year, ZZ can not be satisfied with a club not aiming for the final victory in C1. To satisfy him, we will therefore need an exciting and winning project. They were not that many at the time of the Covid.
- The stat that slams on his CV: 3
Like his Champions League number on the clock. With Ancelotti and Paisley, he sits at the top of the most sacred coaches in C1. Hard to be more attractive.
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Mauricio Pochettino
There only seems to be one, but in a pretty serious way. TF1 and Sky Sports confirmed that a meeting had taken place between Pochettino and Daniel Levy, Spurs’ president, over a possible return. If PSG is for the moment confident in the file, the London club is looking for a coach for next season …
- The stat that slams on his CV: 3
Massimiliano Allegri
He has been without a bench since 2019, and with each period of uncertainty around the future of a great coach, his name comes up. Massimiliano Allegri has been free for two years, and associated with several clubs, the most serious of which is Juventus Turin, which he managed for five seasons previously. According to Sky Italy, his signature is only a matter of hours.
- The stat that slams on his CV: 100%
With the Old Lady, Allegri has always won Serie A, during his five seasons on the bench of the Bianconeri, including twice with the Italian Cup in addition. It is in C1 that the situation was more complicated, and where he will also be judged.
Massimiliano Allegri, back at Juventus?
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Antonio Conte
Not many of them can afford Antonio Conte’s emoluments (between 11 and 12 million euros per season at Inter, the club’s highest-paid man), but discussions have taken place with Real Madrid according to RMC Sport, while PSG keep an eye on the situation in the event of Pochettino’s departure. Few serious contenders that said, a symbol that Conte may have “burned” for the big clubs now.
They are gigantic, as always. Conte is a man as ambitious as he is exhausting, and the reasons for his strained relations with all his directions may lie there. The club that wants to get their hands on him must expect to have to carry out mercatos in line with the ambitions of the Italian and his demands.
- The stat that slams on his CV: 71.4%
Over the past ten years, and his seven club seasons, Antonio Conte has won his national championship five times, with three different clubs (Juventus, Chelsea, Inter), or 71% of the time. His last two titles, with the Blues and the Nerazzurri, have shown teams with very pleasant football. It can play, without a doubt.
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Maurizio Sarri
The Italian comes out of three very different years. In 2019 with Chelsea, Sarri won the Europa League by finishing an honorable 3rd place in the Premier League. Enough to convince Juventus Turin, who made him their coach for the following season before sacking him at the end of the year, after the fiasco of Lyon’s elimination in the Champions League. After a year away from the benches, the tactician seems ready to return to service.
They are very numerous, in Italy and in England. Sarri seemed on the shelves of AS Roma and Inter. The Louve club finally favored José Mourinho, when Sarri declined the Nerazzurri’s offer to him according to Sportitalia. The Gazzetta dello Sport report that Arsenal and Tottenham are interested in his profile, with a more “plausible” lead leading to Spurs.
Probably the possibility of installing a 4-3-3 with “low point”, his trademark, which he did not necessarily have at Juventus, Pjanic not being made for the role of regista. His tactics are known, he needs the players to put it in place and be efficient. His return to Italy also seemed to be the consequence of his desire to be close to his family and his parents. To be continued…
- The stat that slams on his CV: 876
At 62, Maurizio Sarri has already coached 876 matches since 1990. An experience that is difficult to match and which works in his favor.
Christophe galtier
Like Conte, he decided to leave after a league title. For Christophe Galtier, it may be more because it’s the end of the cycle, and not necessarily a fear of downward ambitions like the Italian. His departure from Lille, however, seems synonymous with an arrival elsewhere, without respite. If a first adventure abroad as head coach seemed possible for a while, Galtier should nevertheless remain in Ligue 1 next year.
- The stat that slams on his CV: 3
Or his number of trophies for “best coach of the season” in Ligue 1, with respectively Saint-Etienne (2013) and Lille (2019 and 2021), in other words not mastodons of the French championship. Proof of the quality of Christophe Galtier as head coach, if proof was needed.
Christophe Galtier, Lille coach and French champion
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