Bookmakers believe that Real Madrid could be about to pull the trigger on Zinedine Zidane.<\/p>\n
Zidane, a legend as both player and coach with the Spanish giants, has guided them to back-to-back European titles – the first team to do so in the Champions League era.<\/p>\n
But Madrid are currently going through one of the worst runs of form in years – which saw them lose to lowly Girona at the weekend before losing 3-1 to Tottenham at Wembley.<\/p>\n
They sit third in La Liga and eight points behind arch-rivals Barcelona, and pressure is mounting.<\/p>\n
“It is probably only because of who he is that he Zinedine Zidane is still in a job, the powers that be at Real Madrid are not known for being patient,” said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n
“He is now getting very short to be sacked this season, and is around 6\/4 across the board – at the start of the season it was barely thinkable that he would be in this position.<\/p>\n
“Off the back of this we have the next manager market at Real, and former boss Carlo Ancelotti is favourite but Maurcio Pochettino – the man who oversaw their loss at Wembley is already being backed into second favourite at 11\/2.<\/p>\n
“If you fancy a long-shot – how about Cristiano Ronaldo becoming player manager at 14\/1!”<\/p>\n
Real Madrid odds: Who will replace Zinedine Zidane? Bookmakers believe that Real Madrid could be about to pull the trigger on Zinedine Zidane. Zidane, a legend as both player and coach with the Spanish giants, has guided them to back-to-back European titles – the first team to do so in the Champions League era. But Madrid are currently going through one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[841,74,1640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-news-events","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n
\n<\/strong>Zinedine Zidane to be sacked before the end of the season – 6\/4<\/p>\n
\nAncelotti 7\/2
\nPochettino 11\/2
\nWenger 15\/2
\nBlanc 17\/2
\nMancini 17\/2
\nKlopp 17\/2
\nJardim 11\/1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"