Zinedine Zidane left Real Madrid after losing a power struggle with Florentino Perez over transfers, according to former club president Ramon Calderon.
Zidane quit Madrid in the off-season, on the back of winning a third successive Champions League as Los Blancos boss.
He was soon followed out of the Santiago Bernabeu exit door by Cristiano Ronaldo, who brought his nine-year stint at Madrid to an end in order to join Juventus.
And Calderon has claimed that Zidane wanted Ronaldo to stay and instead sell Gareth Bale, adding that the reason the Frenchman left Madrid was down to current president Perez overseeing the club's transfer activity.