Jose Mourinho returns to Real Madrid with a transformed mindset

Jose Mourinho returns to Real Madrid with a transformed mindset After their failed experiments with Xabi Alonso and Alvaro Arbeloa last season, Real Madrid have now decided to start another new project, this time under the stewardship of a significantly more experienced manager, Jose Mourinho. Thus, the Portuguese manager returned to the Merengue club this summer after a break of 13 years , and, in addition to the excitement about his new project, also rekindled among the fans the memories, both sweet and bitter, of his first stint at the club. During that time, Mourinho was able to achieve the seemingly impossible task of stopping Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona, and also assembled one of the most exciting Real Madrid teams of all time. Meanwhile, he was also overly aggressive at times, taking on referees, journalists, the federations, rival clubs, and even his own players at times. He left the dressing room quite divided when the club ultimately decided to part ways with him. However, as MARCA has noted, the Mourinho who is now training the Merengue team is a significantly different person. While his training methods remain as rigorous and demanding as always, the manager himself is not as fiery and aggressive as he used to be 13 years ago. The players who have trained this summer at Valdebebas so far have already experienced the high demands that the coach puts on his players. Only in the first week of preseason training, he scheduled double sessions on three days, and players have been arriving even two hours before the start of training sessions. Starting his new project at Real Madrid, Jose Mourinho wants to ensure that everyone at the club is pulling in the same direction. For that purpose, he seems ready to let go of his characteristic ego, and hopefully, his new chapter at the Merengue club will turn out to be an even greater success than his first stint.