Real Madrid want Xabi Alonso in place as their new manager in time for the start of next month's Club World Cup.
Sources say the plan is for Alonso, 43, to travel to Madrid on 1 June to prepare the team for their first game of the inaugural Fifa tournament on 18 June against Saudi side Al-Hilal in Miami.
Former Real, Liverpool and Spain midfielder Alonso announced on Friday he was leaving German side Bayer Leverkusen at the end of the season.
It was not Alonso's intention to join up with Real this early but conversations took place last week and the club felt it did not make sense to use an interim before the Basque manager took over.
Current Real manager Carlo Ancelotti will be given a send-off, probably at the final home game of the season against Real Sociedad at the Bernabeu on 25 May.
Real have not yet publicly confirmed Ancelotti's expected departure or Alonso's arrival.
