Former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso lined up as shock potential replacement for Zinedine Zidane

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is considering Xabi Alonso as a shock potential replacement for Zinedine Zidane.

Zidane returned for a second spell as Madrid manager in March, having initially left the club at the end of the 2017/18 campaign.

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Greg Lea

Greg Lea is a freelance football journalist who's filled in wherever FourFourTwo needs him since 2014. He became a Crystal Palace fan after watching a 1-0 loss to Port Vale in 1998, and once got on the scoresheet in a primary school game against Wilfried Zaha's Whitehorse Manor (an own goal in an 8-0 defeat).