Real Madrid will be on the hunt for their fourth coach in a calendar year this summer transfer window, as Florentino Perez has evidently made up his mind to make a big splash in the manager's chair instead of giving continuity to interim coach Alvaro Arbeloa, who, at best, would just end up being Jose Mourinho's assistant.
But while a reunion with Mourinho is the most frequently rumored outcome for Real Madrid this offseason, Jurgen Klopp is another big name who could make his way to the Santiago Bernabeu. These two former Premier League and Champions League winners are on a shortlist of notable coaches that includes Max Allegri, Lionel Scaloni, and Mauricio Pochettino on it.
Klopp, though, is being actively advised by other legends in his own country of Germany to stay away from Die Koniglichen. Speaking on Sky Sports Germany, as captured by Madrid Xtra, former Bayern Munich goalkeeper and executive Oliver Kahn invoked Bundesliga champion Xabi Alonso's issues at the Bernabeu to urge Klopp to avoid considering the club:
“I don’t know if I’d join Real Madrid if I were Klopp. He is someone who works with a clearly defined system, Real Madrid are different. Real Madrid are a group of individuals, superstars who strongly resist any concept put on them. We saw it with Xabi Alonso.”
Oliver Kahn is not wrong at all
Nothing Kahn is saying here about Real Madrid is out of line, and, honestly, Madridistas themselves would have to agree wholeheartedly with what he is saying. Klopp notoriously never wanted anyone who would rock the boat working withi him at either Liverpool or Borussia Dortmund, and the minute someone acted like they were bigger than the club or caused issues, Klopp would nip it in the bud and sell them if need be, which was the case when he first started at Liverpool.
Klopp is certainly not going to stand for players like Kylian Mbappe on bloated wages and with a blank slate from the president himself to do as he pleases. Liverpool and Dortmund were built around pressing from the forwards, and especially the No. 9 was expected to be an unselfish creator first, which was the case for both his darlings Robert Lewandowski and Roberto Firmino.
As Oliver Kahn points out, Jurgen Klopp can't fit at Real Madrid and would be pulling teeth with a couple of players, especially Kylian Mbappe, because of all this. But Kahn's quote brings up the larger point Real Madrid need to say out loud: Which top manager will want to coach Mbappe if Luis Enrique, Thomas Tuchel, Mauricio Pochettino, Xabi Alonso, and Carlo Ancelotti couldn't?
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