Well this is certainly unexpected.

Two days ago, Julen Lopetegui will have expected to be preparing for Spain's World Cup opener against Portugal this evening.

Instead, the man who never lost a match as manager of his country is being unveiled at the Santiago Bernabeu as the new manager of Real Madrid.

Lopetegui agreed a three-year deal to replace Zinedine Zidane as coach of the European champions, following the Frenchman's surprise exit after a third successive Champions League triumph.

But after the deal was made public he found himself dumped by the Spanish FA, with chief executive Luis Rubiales jetting into the team camp in Krasnodar for showdown talks and subsequently axing the 51-year-old.

So, here we are.

Lopetegui will be unveiled by Los Blancos, and we'll have everything he has to say on his surprise appointment, and subsequent sacking by the national association, as he says it.