The Spanish boss has struggled to live up to the high expectations at the club and he might be facing an impossible task
Zinedine Zidane walked away from Santiago Bernabeu when he assessed the time was right to leave. He had just won the Champions League for the third time and elected to take his leave as a hero.
History will judge his Real Madrid team kindly but their buoyant form in European competition helped mask what was an otherwise ordinary season.
They failed to win 16 games in La Liga and finished 17 points behind Barcelona.