RAFAEL NADAL has stunningly admitted he wants to become president of Real Madrid.
The 14-time Grand Slam winner, who has won all four of the major tennis honours, is an avid Los Blancos fan.
And the 30-year-old has hinted he may try for a career in football admin after he retires – even making an ambitious bid for the coveted top seat at the Bernabeu.
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Nadal, whose uncle Miguel Angel played for Barcelona more than 200 times in the 1990s, told Marca: “You never know what can happen. Everyone knows I’m passionate about football and Real Madrid is my team.
“Talking about it now is a utopia, but if you ask me, of course I would like to be president.
“We are very well as we are, we have a great president and I do not think Real Madrid needs me.”
Current Real chief Florentio Perez is in his second term in charge of the club, after stepping down in 2006.
Perez is largely credited with the club’s current trend of attempting to sign the best players in the world and break the world record transfer fee.
Real signed Cristiano Ronaldo for £80million from Manchester United in 2009 and broke that record by capturing Gareth Bale from Tottenham in 2013 for £85million.
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Perez is known as a shrewd master of club politics, managing to keep Ronaldo happy and well-paid.
But Perez also gave birth to the Galacticos in the early 2000s, capturing current Real boss Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Brazilian Ronaldo and David Beckham for big money.
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