Chelsea are lining up former Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane if they part ways with Maurizio Sarri, according to reports in England.
The Frenchman won the Champions League three years in a row with the Spanish club. He also won La Liga, the World Club Championship, the Spanish Super Cup and the European Super Cup during his two and a half year stint at the Bernabeu.
Some on Twitter think Zidane would be the right choice to take over:
Yes definitely zidane would be perfect for the premier league & Chelsea
— ???????Sam Lewis?? (@samlewis1983) 13 February 2019
any day!
Guaranteed player-power doesn’t work on him— Jay Romeo (@jayromeo87) 13 February 2019
Anyone but Sarri.#SarriOut
— Blue Hatchet Man (@shaunkrish) 13 February 2019
He should join chelsea??
— Ranjitp (@Ranjitp12) 13 February 2019
Only if this is his method of telling player to stop moaning when they are in a privileged position to be playing football for a living pic.twitter.com/7uSrGcuTlS
— BitsandBoobs (@robertwarne1983) 13 February 2019
Others are keen for Sarri to be given more time to turn things around at the Blues:
We have Sari
— ??Chelsea (@kevinmpedzi) 13 February 2019
No thank you
— Gavin (@Ggavinabs) 13 February 2019
I think Sarri needs time and we should give him
— EndritKallaba (@EndritKallaba) 13 February 2019
Sarri in ??
— Hayden ?? (@hazcfc112) 13 February 2019
Zidane is believed to be keen on managing in the Premier League with the Chelsea hierarchy weighing up whether they should make a move for him now, rather than at the end of the season.
It’s likely that if a change was made midway through the campaign that the Frenchman would take over in the summer with an interim boss taking charge in the meantime.
Manchester United may also be considering Zidane as permanent manager if they don’t opt for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
