5 reasons why Zinedine Zidane was right to leave Real Madrid

#3 Victim of own success

Rising high

Two-and-a-half seasons. Three Champions League titles. One league title. Two European Super Cups. Two Club World Cups. One Spanish Super Cup. All of this in just two-and-a-half years.

No manager has been as successful with a new club like Zidane has, except for perhaps Pep Guardiola. The Frenchman has set the standards so high that a season without a major trophy under his reign would be a failure on his part.

This is something that puts added pressure on him. It is for exactly this reason that there were talks of him being sacked when the league was all but lost and Leganes embarrassingly dumped the Galacticos out of the Copa Del Rey at the Bernabeu.