🗞️ Tuesday’s front pages: hello Zizou, Diomande and Barça’s No 9 | OneFootball

France officially appoints Zinédine Zidane as head coach today, twenty-one years after his split with the national team. It’s the big story of the day in Europe.

In Italy, the project lasts less than a holiday: Maldini and Leonardo resign just 16 days later after the veto on Pirlo, and the Federation is already pushing Mancini’s name as his replacement. Chaos.

In Spain, Real Madrid are looking inward: Nacho tells AS that the team needs Mourinho, while the club pays more than 100 million for Diomande, a kid who was playing at an academy in the USA a year and a half ago.

Barça, meanwhile, travel to England with the entire squad, including the surprise inclusions of Ter Stegen and De Jong, and there is debate over whether signing Junior Kroupi would be a good move.

In Portugal, the courts are stepping into football to investigate the refereeing that cost Duarte Gomes his job, with leaked audios and videos involved.

And meanwhile the transfer market keeps moving forward inexorably. Inter sign John Stones on a free, and Sevilla are battling for 23-year-old striker David Romero.

Estadio Deportivo rounds off the day with Betis saying goodbye to Dovbyk, who is on his way to Bologna, and Superdeporte summing up Valencia’s preseason with a phrase that could apply to half of Spanish football: “a lot needs to change.”

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