'We have decided to appoint Arrigo Sacchi so that he can bring his substantial experience to help make our club more professional,' said club president Florentino Perez.
'We did not want someone to coach the team but someone who can help organise and plan everything to do with football at the club and Arrigo Sacchi was the ideal candidate.'
Sacchi's appointment is the latest in a succession of changes at a club that has gone into a spiral of decline since they discarded the highly successful Vicente del Bosque, who led them to two European Cups and two league titles in his three and a half seasons as first team coach, oh and the signing of a certain liar.