Allegri says “no” to Tottenham while waiting for Real Madrid

As Real Madrid ends its 2020-21 season, we will see if with a league title or without it, coaches from all over Europe are taking positions for the race that is sensed, bound for the Madrid bench. Zidane has spent weeks sending very sparing and evasive messages when asked whether or not he will continue at Madrid next season, since he has a contract until June 2022; in fact, a couple of media (Telemadrid and Onda Cero) have already reported that his departure is safe, although he denied that he has communicated any decision to the dressing room at the moment. But it also does not confirm that it will continue and the pulse of the white wardrobe is much more oriented to leave it once the season ends., as he did in June 2018, after winning the third of the three consecutive Champions League.

Real Madrid, as is normal, is already moving to position itself in order to choose a name that will take over the team next year, and AS already said that there are two names that make up the white club's list: Allegri and Raúl. The now Castilla coach like Florentino and José Ángel Sánchez a lot and their work with both the Juvenil in the 2020 Youth League (which he won) and with Castilla this year (he put him in the promotion play-off and competed despite lacking several headlines), but there is a well-founded fear of spending that bullet too soon and burning a possible future as Madrid coach for several years. Allegri, for his part, is a much more established option, with enormous experience in the elite and a script as a coach that fits in with the white philosophy.

And Allegri knows it, so much so that he has ordered his representatives to appease the interest of those who come looking for him, for now, waiting for what happens on the Madrid bench. Allegri currently does not have a team, he has not trained since June 2019, when he left Juventus, but his track record provides him with several offers every summer: he won a Serie A and a Super Cup with Milan and up to eleven titles with Juventus, including five Italian leagues. In addition, he led Vecchia Signora to the Champions League final twice, in 2015 and 2017, losing in both cases. with Barcelona and Real Madrid, respectively.

In this context, another recent Champions League finalist like Tottenham has knocked on his door to convey his interest in taking over the 'spur' bench. after the dismissal of Mourinho a few weeks ago. Ryan Mason has taken over the team in this final stretch of the course, but will not continue; He will return to his work in the Tottenham quarry, Daniel Levy wants someone with experience (Mason is only 29 years old) and Allegri likes him a lot in London. But the Italian has transferred the British team that for the moment wants time to think … and to wait and see what happens to the Real Madrid bench.

Allegri already said no to Madrid

The relationship between Allegri and Madrid is not new. The Italian has always liked Florentino, in the same way as in his previous stage and at the beginning of the second after his return in 2009, contacts were maintained with other technicians with a similar profile such as Carlo Ancelotti. Carletto ended up in Madrid, where he won four titles in two seasons and won the long-awaited Tenth Champions League. In 2018, after Zidane left Madrid after the triumph over Liverpool in Kiev, the white club touched several coaches to see if they would take over the team and one of them was Allegri. But then the Italian was not ready for the challenge and Madrid ended up signing Lopetegui, who left a few months later to be replaced by Solari first and Zidane later.

“Three years ago (in 2018) the president of Madrid called me to offer me the bench. But I had to say no, I had given Agnelli my word that I would remain at Juventus. In the last few months I have received several calls, I am ready. I want to train again. I miss seeing the players every day. “He recently told Sky Sports when asked about a possible future at Madrid. In other statements to Radio Kiss Kiss, he explained that a medical problem of a close relative has kept him away from the benches these years and that he had to say “no” to several important clubs. Among them, Madrid: “I am not a clown, if I have rejected ten offers I cannot sign with a club that comes only ten days later …”.