WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT UNITED WHEN ZZ IS COOL ON TOP JOB?

ZINEDINE ZIDANE as a player was defined by two World Cup finals and as a coach by three Champions League wins.

He speaks five languages – including Arabic and Berber – and has played in France, Italy and Spain

But the closest the Frenchman (above) has come to English football is playing alongside David Beckham at Real Madrid and scoring two injury-time goals against the Three Lions at Euro 2004.

And Manchester United will have to persuade Zidane and his wife, Veronique, to leave Madrid and learn a new language before he turns 50 next year, instead of potentially taking the France job.

There is no doubt signing the 1998 Ballon d’Or winner would be a huge coup for the Old Trafford club.

A national hero in France, he has a worldwide reputation and a proven record of playing attacking football and managing superstars like Cristiano Ronaldo and Raphael Varane at Real.

And he is immediately available after leaving the Bernabeu job for the second time in May.

His former France team-mate Patrice Evra told BBC 5 Live: “I would be very, very happy to see Zizou. It would be great.”

But when Zidane was first linked with the Old Trafford job in 2018, his agent

Alain Migliaccio said: “I do not think he will manage in England.

“It is much less his style. I have discussed it with him, it does not really attract him.”

The France job could be available in 13 months if former Les

Bleus team-mate

Didier Deschamps leaves the job after the Qatar World Cup.

And another 1998

World Cup winner, former France boss and ex-Manchester

United defender

Laurent Blanc, would be a simpler solution for the Old Trafford club.