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Zinedine Zidane, during a talk with his players

SINCE HIS ARRIVAL IN 2016

Twelve names appear in the 'black list' of Zidane in the Real Madrid

Published:27/01/2021 - 18:59h

Updated:27/01/2021 - 19:00h

James, Pepe, Morata, Llorente, Danilo and Theo Hernández have seen frustrated their opportunities to continue in the Madrid during the 'Zidane era'. The next distinguished could be Ceballos, Jovic, Reguilón, Odegaard and Odriozola

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Recently more than five years, Zinedine Zidane, for then technician of the filial, assumed the control of a Real Madrid that came in hammered after seven months of bad results with Rafa Benítez in the bench. The French attained to save to a team that finished the season heaving the maximum continental trophy in Milan in front of the Athletic, in what hardly it was the start of one of the most successful cycles in the history of the white group.

However, those who have not had the approval of 'Zizou' have gone out by the rear door in regrettable conditions and some of them have finished shining in other clubs. In total, have been 12 the streaky players by the technician since Florentino Pérez called it for the first time.

The most sounded case, definitely, is the one of James Rodríguez. The Colombian, that landed in Madrid after finalising a brilliant participation in the World-wide of 2014 that carried to his selection until the quarter-finals, was a key piece for Carlo Ancelotti, but did not receive the same opportunities by part of the Frenchman.

Pepe and Morata, without fit in the diagram of Zidane

Between the another distinguished finds Pepe, one of the best defenders of the Madrid in the last years, the one who abandoned the club to the not having the confidence of Zidane, the one who preferred to Varane. Whereas to Morata, marginado in favour of Benzema, did not cost him of a lot of be a key player in the played that allowed to Bouquets equalise the final of Lisbon. Even under the control of Ancelotti, finish yielded to the Juventus, club to the that would go back after his go through Chelsea and the Athletic.

Marcos Llorente also saw how the míster separated it to have of Casemiro in his place. Kovacic, Danilo and Theo Hernández did not fit very well in the system of the French, that preferred to other players. In the actuality, the following could be Ceballos, Jovic, Reguilón, Odegaard and Odriozola, that still keep linked to the Real Madrid, where perhaps only a change of opinion of Zizou or his exit of the bench can open them the doors again.

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