{"id":35138,"date":"2026-05-09T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/mourinho-close-to-returning-to-real-madrid-13-years-after-leaving\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:30:50","slug":"mourinho-close-to-returning-to-real-madrid-13-years-after-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/mourinho-close-to-returning-to-real-madrid-13-years-after-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho close to returning to Real Madrid, 13 years after leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Mourinho&#8217;s name is strongly back in the spotlight at Real Madrid, with recent reports talking about a possible return of the Portuguese coach after 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to Spanish media, the leaders of the Madrid club are seriously considering changes to the bench at the end of the season, while Mourinho is seen as the main candidate to take over the leadership of the team.<\/p>\n<p>President Florentino P\u00e9rez continues to rate the coach highly. Portuguese, who is considered the right profile to restore stability and balance to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that contacts between the parties have advanced, but any decision is expected to be formalized only after the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho managed Real Madrid from 2010 to 2013, winning La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal finalised, the return of the &#8220;Special One&#8221; to the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u is expected to be one of the most sensational moves of the summer in European football.\/04 Online<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display advertisements (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Mourinho&#8217;s name is strongly back in the spotlight at Real Madrid, with recent reports talking about a possible return of the Portuguese coach after 13 years. According to Spanish media, the leaders of the Madrid club are seriously considering changes to the bench at the end of the season, while Mourinho is seen as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"views":19,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}