Real Madrid will hold an official press conference on Monday night

He will certainly miss the trip to Ukraine, although it could be a precautionary move with Rafael Benitez’s men having already secured a place in the knockout stages. Fans of Los Blancos have grown increasingly frustrated following the negative brand of football Madrid have been playing this season, and the 4-0 defeat to Barcelona on Saturday leaves very few fans supporting Benitez.

With the so-called Madrid “crisis” dominating the headlines in Spain since El Clasico, the 10-time European champions on Monday announced Perez would be speaking to the media.

A Madrid statement read: “The Real Madrid president Florentino Perez will hold a press conference at 7:30pm CET this evening in the Santiago Bernabeu following the board meeting”.

“I am the manager of Castilla, Benitez is the manager of the first team, and things are fine like that”, Zidane commented.

Ancelotti was sacked last season after he finished the season without a trophy and and in an interview with RAI Radio 1, on the Radio anch’io Sport show, the Italian manager says he would love to go back to Real Madrid or any of his former clubs like Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.

Zidane, who made more than 150 appearances over a five-year spell as a player with Real, has been in charge of Castilla since June 2014. “My current job is Castilla and I am going to continue with it”.

“What I am doing, as I did when I was a player, I am doing bit by bit”.

“The important thing is to be happy day to day with what I’m doing, my present is Castilla”.