Real Madrid managerial woes: The bosses who have turned down Florentino Perez

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Standard Sport1 November 2018

Who could resist the chance of coaching Real Madrid?

Plenty, it seems - and that is the difficult position in which president Florentino Perez finds himself after appointing Santiago Solari as caretaker coach following Julen Lopetegui's sacking.

The writing was on the wall for Lopetegui after a run of five defeats in seven games which culminated in a 5-1 Clasico humiliation at Barcelona; a Bernabeu exit capping a nightmare spell for the coach after Spain sacked him on the eve of the World Cup for accepting the Real job.

Perez is not known for his patience with Real managers, but few of the world's coaching elite have ever turned down the chance to sit in the Madrid hotseat - until now, at least.

Zinedine Zidane was always going to be a tough act to follow after three straight Champions League triumphs, while Lopetegui (or his father, for that matter) will argue that the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo left Real without a world-class goalscorer.

Zidane departed before this summer's World Cup to leave Real plenty of time to adjust, but even the nature of their announcement of Lopetegui was ill-judged to suggest a lack of cohesion in how the club is being run.

Given that Solari can only be an interim manager for two weeks due to La Liga rules, Real will have a big decision to make one way or the other before November is over - but can Perez and this current squad do anything to tempt a top coach to come in and stop the rot?

Scroll through the gallery above to see who has rejected Real since Zidane's exit...

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