9. Rejected The Chance To Manage Bordeaux Due To Financial Constraints
In football there are two common types of manager. There are those who are willing to work on a shoestring budget, sniffing out bargains and bringing through young academy players - and then there are those who simply want to spend, bringing in (hopefully) world class players with big bags of money. It's too early to know which type of manager Zidane will turn out to be, but he gave a pretty big hint when he turned down his former club Bordeaux in the summer of 2014. Back then Zidane was working at Madrid as Carlo Ancelotti's assistant, but Bordeaux were keen to give him his start in management. He chose to stick around at the Bernebeu after being told by the Bordeaux money men that he "wouldn't be able to bring in many players". Now he's in the Real Madrid hot seat, he can afford to bring is as many players as he wants!
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