Zinedine Zidane spoke at press conference the day before Real Madrid will play against Sevilla at Santiago Bernabéu.
According to Marca, tying Zidane down for the long haul is President Florentino Perez's "aspiration" and the renewal will be signed "whenever the Frenchman wants".
Furthermore, there is "total and absolute confidence" in the trainer, with the newspaper also citing parallels between him and Jose Mourinho, who penned a new contract just days after he won La Liga with Los Blancos in 2012. After beating arch-rivals Atletico Madrid, this will be Real Madrid's second consecutive Champions League final.
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Real Madrid may be on the verge of a first La Liga and Champions League double for 59 years, but coach Zinedine Zidane insisted his job is only safe if he delivers trophies.
However, Zidane is looking no further ahead than Sunday's meeting with Sevilla as Real aim to topple Barca in the standings.
The forward has been limited to 17 league starts this season due to a serious ankle injury and repeated muscle problems and was absent from training the day before Real's final home game of the season against Sevilla on Sunday.
We got a little taste of what it means to take on Barcelona's great MSN strikeforce last weekend, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar limiting our profits.
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"Now we think about LaLiga and there are only awesome games left". "The hardest part is still to come".
"It is a maybe decisive game, like the others, so we will do everything possible to get the three points", Zidane said.
"He will not be in the squad tomorrow because of his rib".
"It's getting better, but you have to go day by day. We are making sure that the team can give 100 percent tomorrow, as even more than that will be necessary".
First we had the agony of Neymar netting just before 16/1 tip Cedric Bakambu scored, and then Messi messed up the half-time draw/full-time Barcelona selection, preventing us from collecting a 4/1 victor on the market for second successive weekend. "I can not tell you when he will return, but hopefully it is soon".
"Look at what Celta are doing, and Malaga are in impressive shape at the moment".
"We've won just one in the last nine years and I think it would be important for the club to win it again", former Madrid right-back Michel Salgado told Omnisport this week.
Dermot Corrigan is a Madrid-based football writer who covers La Liga and the Spain national team for ESPN FC.
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