Zinedine Zidane has become the manager of Real Madrid after the club’s president, Florentino Pérez, announced the sacking of Rafael Benítez at the Bernabéu on Monday night after exactly seven months in charge. The decision to replace Benítez has left Gareth Bale very unhappy and the Welshman may consider his options in the summer. The Spaniard, who has difficult relationships with some of the players, was particularly close to Bale and the 26-year-old will not be short of suitors should he decide the time is right to leave Spain at the end of the season, three years after his €100m (£85.2m) move to the Bernabéu. Zidane was briefly presented to the press after Pérez offered a two-sentence statement confirming the board had agreed to “resolve” Benítez’s contract that had two more seasons left to run. The Spaniard was not at the stadium and sources close to him claimed he had not been informed of the decision and only on Monday morning he was still being assured by the club’s chief executive, José Ángel Sánchez, that his job was safe. It was only 13 days ago that Pérez told a Spanish radio station Benítez was not a “problem” but the “solution”…