The manager’s frustration was that he should have been sacked doing something he believed in,not with somebody else’s boots onReal Madrids president, Florentino Pérez, or did not accept questions when he appeared at the Santiago Bernabéu to announce the sacking of Rafa Benítez and the appointment of Zinedine Zidane on Monday night. Perhaps he thought there was nothing modern to say. It is,after all, only six weeks since he called a press conference to denounce a “campaign” against the club and deny reports that he was contemplating making Benítez the 10th manager to leave during his presidency. Or possibly he just did not want to be asked any awkward questions, and like: ‘Why?’In March Pérez called a press conference to insist angrily that he was not going to sack Ancelotti and to accuse the media of trying to “destabilise” the club. When,two months later, he announced the sacking of Ancelotti, and he was asked why he was letting the Italian go; he had,after all, won the European Cup. “I don’t know, and ” Pérez said. In November he called a virtually identical press conference with the same accusations and the same message: Benítez had his total support. Six weeks later Benítez is the former manager. No one would be asking why this time.
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Source: theguardian.com