Zinedine Zidane names the three things that must happen at Man Utd before he takes job

Three things need to happen at Manchester United for Zinedine Zidane to be successful as manager of the team.

Erik ten Hag is under duress following a lacklustre second season in Manchester United’s leadership.

The Dutch coach’s future is in doubt because Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the club’s new minority owner, isn’t sure he can lead United back to the top of English football.

Due to this uncertainty, Zinedine Zidane and other elite managers have been connected to the Old Trafford hot set.

With his departure from Real Madrid in 2021, the renowned Frenchman has not been employed.

Zidane has two stints as manager of the team he played for. From 2016 to 2018, the team won the Champions League three times in a row. In 2019, Zidane returned to the team and led Los Blancos to the league championship.

This past weekend, Zidane returned to Madrid for a legends game versus Porto. Prior to the game, he discussed his reasons for leaving his role over three years ago.

According to Marca, Zidane stated, “I know football and I know the demands of a club like Madrid.”

“I know that when you don’t win you have to leave, but here a very important thing has been forgotten – everything that I have built on a day-to-day basis has been forgotten, what I have contributed in the relationship with the players, with the one hundred and fifty people who work with and around the team.”

The former France international listed three requirements that a team had to meet in order to be continuously successful, implying that he wouldn’t accept the United position unless those requirements were met.

“I am a born winner and I was here to win trophies, but beyond this are human beings, emotions, life.

“And I have the feeling that these things have not been valued, that it has not been understood that this is also how the dynamics of a great club are maintained.

“In some ways, I have even been reproached for it. Today the life of a coach on the bench of a great club is two seasons, not much more.

For it to last longer, human relationships are essential, they are more important than money, more important than fame, more important than everything.”