Guardiola could have joined Real Madrid

Zinedine Zidane was the man Real Madrid turned to last January when the club gave up on the Rafa Benitez project, but in a parallel universe Pep Guardiola could have been the man taking over the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu dugout.
Los Blancos made a proposal to the Catalan, but he turned down their advances, having already agreed to join Manchester City.
"When Benitez was going through a tough spell at Real Madrid there was contact," Marti Perarnau - Guardiola's biographer - explained in an interview with La Sexta.
"There was an approach to Pep Guardiola see what he was going to do after Bayern Munich.
"A representative transmitted the message to [Guardiola], but he replied by saying that he was going to Manchester City and that he wasn't going to listen to proposals from anyone."
Perarnau made the stunning revelation at a presentation for his new book on the ex-Barcelona coach, called The Evolution.