Crawling back to you… Ever thought of calling when you’ve had a few? ‘Cause I always do. Maybe I’m too busy being yours to fall for somebody new. Now I’ve thought it through, crawling back to you. These are the lyrics of the Arctic Monkey’s smash hit Do I Wanna Know and it tells the old story about a guy who misses a woman so much that he thinks about her whenever he’s going through a tough time. Well, it’s the kind of thing that seems to happen between Paris Saint-Germain and Zinedine Zidane.
The legendary French-Alegerian footballer’s coaching career has been short and insanely successful. He took over at Real Madrid and won three consecutive Champions League crowns with Los Blancos, something nobody has ever done before – and probably never will. But he left Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in 2021 and has been unemployed since. In the meantime, whenever a big club needed a coach, his name would somehow end up being mentioned by fans, reporters and pundits. And one of the clubs whose links to the 1998 World Cup winner never went away is Paris Saint-Germain.The club from the French capital is in a strange situation where they’re close to retaining the Ligue 1 title but are going through a crisis simultaneously. Their failure to win the UEFA Champions League and integrate their high-earning star players into the club has turned many fans against the Qatari regime. And so, they look to perform a hard reset to their project, get rid of coach Christophe Galtier and get back to square one again – and ZZ is an option.##NAJAVA_MECA_7283873##However, former France international Christophe Dugarry says his former teammate isn’t in a hurry.”Zizou has the kind of luxury very few people have. Being called Zinedine Zidane means that you’ve been so successful in whatever you did that you have the luxury of picking only the projects that really appeal to you. I believe he will receive offers this year – but he’s under no pressure to say yes unless he really believes the time is right.”Zidane was born and bred in Marseille and has admitted that he regrets never having played for Olympique de Marseille. Galtier, another native of Marseille, had no qualms about becoming PSG’s boss – but Zidane’s profile is much higher, and it would be a big shock to see him becoming a traitor in the people of Marseille’s eyes.💬 Christophe Dugarry : “Zidane n’est pas prêt à accepter tout et n’importe quoi ! Il ne va pas se fourvoyer dans un club qui ne l’intéresse pas. La force d’avoir réussi comme il a fait en tant qu’entraîneur c’est de reprendre quand il souhaite et lorsqu’il aura le bon projet” pic.twitter.com/bLlpQQrIpx— Rothen s’enflamme (@Rothensenflamme) May 25, 2023 French TV channel RMC Sport recently revealed that PSG leader Nasser Al-Khelaifi hasn’t given up on Zidane even though the man himself is more inclined to take over at Juventus, another club he used to play for. We don’t know if Nasser sometimes has a few drinks more than he should have, but just like the Arctic Monkeys, he thinks about picking up the phone and calling Zinedine.LIGUE 1 – MATCHDAY 37Saturday22.00: (4.90) Strasbourg (3.90) PSG (1.73)22.00: (1.51) Lille (4.30) Nantes (7.00)22.00: (1.17) Lens (9.50) Ajaccio (19.0)22.00: (1.67) Olympique Lyon (4.00) Reims (5.40)22.00: (2.55) Montpellier (3.40) Nice (2.80)22.00: (2.24) Rennes (3.60) Monaco (3.40)22.00: (1.43) Olympique Marseille (5.00) Brest (9.00)22.00: (2.09) Angers (3.60) Troyes (3.80)22.00: (2.30) Clermont (3.50) Lorient (3.40)22.00: (2.40) Toulouse (3.50) Auxerre (3.20)***odds are subject to change