MADRID -- "I had gone 10 years practically without stopping," Julen Lopetegui said, but when the break came, it was good for him, even if leaving Wolves wasn't something he planned. "A chance to reset," he called it as he settled into a quiet corner of an empty restaurant one afternoon in Madrid.
It also wasn't going to be that long and, after eight months out of the game, it is time to return, to start from the beginning. These have been busy days: days of calls and conversations, a future to be formed, AC Milan and West Ham among those who have approached the former Sevilla, Spain and Real Madrid coach.