El Real Madrid Se Equivocó Con Mourinho. Ahora Se Están Dando Cuenta. — Transcript

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1. 0:00a clear one on Bellingham by Cuti
2. 0:03Romero and the second by Kang-in Lee on
3. 0:06Fede Valverde. Yes. Ah, we could skip
4. 0:14the press conference because the story
5. 0:16of the match is right here. They are
6. 0:21two red cards clear ones. José
7. 0:25Mourinho standing before the
8. 0:27microphones, holding two printed
9. 0:28photographs of Atlético de Madrid
10. 0:30tackles instead of talking about the
11. 0:32football his own team had just shown in
12. 0:34the derby. Atlético responded hours
13. 0:37later with a social media video, a
14. 0:39printer spitting out a sheet with a
15. 0:40photo of Mourinho himself, holding
16. 0:42those images, and above it in red and
17. 0:44white letters, an institutional message
18. 0:46. "Referee harassment." The ridicule
19. 0:48was instant and went viral. 15 points
20. 0:51out of 21 possible, two losses in seven
21. 0:53matchdays. Six points behind Barcelona
22. 0:56and a comparison that is starting to
23. 0:58hurt more than Florentino Pérez
24. 0:59expected. Xabi Alonso, the coach they
25. 1:02fired, had three more points at this
26. 1:05same stage last season. On Sunday,
27. 1:07September 20, 2026, Real Madrid fell
28. 1:102-1 to Atlético de Madrid in the derby
29. 1:13played at the Metropolitano. The defeat
30. 1:16, the second in just seven league
31. 1:18matchdays, left Mourinho's team six
32. 1:19points behind leaders Barcelona,
33. 1:21champions of the last two consecutive
34. 1:23seasons. That result makes Mourinho's
35. 1:26league start the club's worst since the
36. 1:292018-19 season, as reported by El
37. 1:31Desmarque. The complete record after
38. 1:34seven matchdays is five wins and two
39. 1:36losses, both away from the Santiago
40. 1:38Bernabéu against Betis and now against
41. 1:40Atlético. The comparison with his
42. 1:42immediate predecessor is especially
43. 1:44uncomfortable for the club's board.
44. 1:46Xabi Alonso, dismissed months ago, had
45. 1:49tallied 18 points out of 21 possible at
46. 1:51the same stage last season, winning his
47. 1:53first six consecutive matches before
48. 1:56falling, also against Atlético, but by
49. 1:58a much wider margin of 5-2. José
50. 2:01Mourinho arrived at the Real Madrid
51. 2:03bench promising exactly the opposite of
52. 2:04what the club is experiencing today. As
53. 2:07reported, it was assumed that with
54. 2:09Mou's return, the club would recover
55. 2:11order and some fundamental principles
56. 2:13to be competitive again after two
57. 2:15seasons without major titles. And that
58. 2:18promise carried special weight because
59. 2:19Mourinho had already lived through this
60. 2:21situation before. In his first stint at
61. 2:24the club between 2010 and 2013, he won
62. 2:26a League and a Copa del Rey, remaining
63. 2:28until now the only coach capable of
64. 2:30breaking the hegemony of Guardiola's
65. 2:32Barcelona during that specific period
66. 2:34of Blaugrana dominance. Metropolitano,
67. 2:3652nd minute. The referee sends off Dean
68. 2:40Huijsen after a second yellow card,
69. 2:41leaving Real Madrid with 10 players for
70. 2:43the entire second half of the most
71. 2:45important derby of the season.
72. 2:47Mourinho’s team, despite being a man
73. 2:49down, held on until the final minutes
74. 2:51before ultimately falling 2-1. That
75. 2:54detail is significant to understanding
76. 2:56what followed. In the post-match press
77. 2:58conference, Mourinho appeared with two
78. 3:01printed photos, showing a challenge by
79. 3:03Cuti Romero on Jude Bellingham and
80. 3:05another by Kang-in Lee on Fede Valverde
81. 3:07. Both plays, in his opinion, deserved
82. 3:10a straight red card. The difficulties
83. 3:14we had afterward, 11 against 10, well,
84. 3:17we can imagine what 50 minutes of 11
85. 3:20against [would be like],
86. 3:25the Portuguese coach declared, then
87. 3:26extending his criticisms to the
88. 3:28refereeing committee in general. And if
89. 3:32the poor referee, well, one could say
90. 3:35inexperienced, without the stature to
91. 3:38work a derby.
92. 3:41Diego Simeone, Atlético’s coach, had
93. 3:43a completely different read on the
94. 3:45match, focused on the play and not on
95. 3:47the officiating. We played a very good
96. 3:50first half, but we lacked the clarity
97. 3:52to capitalize on the opportunities we
98. 3:54created, declared the Argentine, also
99. 3:55acknowledging that his team could have
100. 3:57won by an even wider margin at several
101. 3:59points in the match. Atlético de
102. 4:02Madrid didn't miss the chance to strike
103. 4:04back in the media. In addition to the "
104. 4:06printer" video, they posted an
105. 4:08additional message on social media. The
106. 4:10machinery in 'on' mode, they have a new
107. 4:12challenge this year. Three weeks
108. 4:14without the league. This season starts
109. 4:17very early, the red-and-white club
110. 4:19joked, pointing to the refereeing
111. 4:20narrative that Real Madrid had already
112. 4:22deployed in previous seasons. And here
113. 4:25lies the problem that the refereeing
114. 4:27complaints couldn't fully hide. As
115. 4:29reported by Diario Las Américas,
116. 4:31Mourinho's team is already slipping in
117. 4:33the league title race, lashing out at
118. 4:35the officiating precisely to mask their
119. 4:37real shortcomings and the obvious
120. 4:38incompatibility of the Mbappé-
121. 4:40Vinicius-Bellingham trio. Mbappé, who
122. 4:43has scored seven goals in seven
123. 4:44matchdays, and Bellingham,
124. 4:45systematically forced to plug holes in
125. 4:47the midfield, are relatively spared
126. 4:49from internal criticism. The focus
127. 4:52falls directly on Vinicius, substituted
128. 4:54by Arda Güler in the 54th minute,
129. 4:55following what the press described as
130. 4:57another catastrophic performance by the
131. 4:59Brazilian. Since his renewal in early
132. 5:02August with a contract until 2032,
133. 5:04Vinicius has only scored one goal and
134. 5:07continues to show no improvement,
135. 5:09unable to beat his direct marker or
136. 5:11link up with his own attacking
137. 5:13teammates. Several voices in the
138. 5:15Spanish press are already criticizing
139. 5:17the club for offering him a contract of
140. 5:19that magnitude without him first
141. 5:21recovering his 2023-24 season level.
142. 5:24And here appears the most ironic detail
143. 5:25of this whole crisis. The 2023-24
144. 5:28season ended with Vinicius as the
145. 5:30Ballon d'Or runner-up, just behind a
146. 5:32player who, according to that same
147. 5:35report, seemed set to join Real Madrid
148. 5:37but ended up at Barça. Rodri, the
149. 5:40central midfielder the club itself let
150. 5:42slip away to its greatest rival just
151. 5:43months prior. That failed signing was
152. 5:45not an isolated incident within the
153. 5:47club's recent management. In just two
154. 5:50seasons, Real Madrid has already gone
155. 5:52through Ancelotti, Xabi Alonso, Arbeloa
156. 5:55as interim, and now Mourinho—a
157. 5:57carousel of managers that has yet to
158. 5:59solve the same underlying structural
159. 6:01problem in the midfield and the team's
160. 6:04offensive cohesion. Fans and
161. 6:07influential voices in the Spanish press
162. 6:09are already starting to demand a firm
163. 6:11show of authority from Mourinho,
164. 6:13starting with benching Vinicius and
165. 6:15starting Diomande on the left flank. In
166. 6:18addition to finally resolving the
167. 6:19internal competition between Bellingham
168. 6:21and Arda Güler in the midfield.
169. 6:23Mourinho himself, however, decided to
170. 6:25focus his entire press conference on
171. 6:27the officiating, reviewing
172. 6:28controversial decisions from previous
173. 6:30matchdays. "The goal they disallowed
174. 6:32for Osasuna against Atlético is a joke
175. 6:34.""The penalty they called in San
176. 6:36Sebastián is a joke," he stated,
177. 6:38expanding his grievance well beyond the
178. 6:40derby played that weekend. That
179. 6:42communication strategy is not new to
180. 6:44the club either, although on that
181. 6:45previous occasion, the protagonist was
182. 6:47Ancelotti. In February 2025, after
183. 6:50losing 1-0 to Espanyol, Real Madrid had
184. 6:52already sent a four-page open letter to
185. 6:55the Royal Spanish Football Federation,
186. 6:57labeling the officiating as
187. 6:59manipulation and a corruption of the
188. 7:01system. The pattern of public
189. 7:04confrontation with the refereeing body
190. 7:06is, therefore, an institutional
191. 7:07constant for the club that transcends
192. 7:09any specific coach. The underlying
193. 7:12problem is that this media insistence,
194. 7:14according to analysis by Diario Las
195. 7:15Américas, serves precisely to hide
196. 7:17real shortcomings in the sports project
197. 7:19. At Real Madrid, coaches come and go,
198. 7:22but on the pitch, nothing changes after
199. 7:24two seasons without major titles. A
200. 7:27phrase that summarizes with brutal
201. 7:28precision exactly what the club's board
202. 7:30hoped to avoid by hiring Mourinho. That
203. 7:33phrase carries even more weight when
204. 7:35compared to the initial expectations of
205. 7:36the signing. Mourinho was presented as
206. 7:39the coach of discipline. tactical order
207. 7:41and the management of difficult locker
208. 7:43rooms. Exactly the three areas where
209. 7:46Real Madrid shows its biggest cracks
210. 7:48today, as multiple analyses from the
211. 7:50Spanish sports press have agreed in
212. 7:51recent weeks. So now, with two losses
213. 7:54in seven matchdays, an attacking trio
214. 7:56that the press itself describes as
215. 7:58incompatible, and a public discourse
216. 8:00focused on refereeing instead of
217. 8:02concrete footballing solutions, Real
218. 8:03Madrid is starting to face the same
219. 8:05uncomfortable question it already faced
220. 8:07with Ancelotti, Xabi Alonso, and
221. 8:09Arbeloa. The bet on Mourinho was made
222. 8:12under the promise of recovering order,
223. 8:13authority, and fundamental principles
224. 8:15that the club felt were lost. But the
225. 8:18numbers from this start, worse than
226. 8:20Xabi Alonso's in the same period,
227. 8:21suggest that the coaching change did
228. 8:23not solve the structural problem. It
229. 8:26barely changed the name of the person
230. 8:27who has to face the same questions
231. 8:29every week in the press room. And while
232. 8:31Mourinho hands out printed photographs
233. 8:33at every press conference, Atlético de
234. 8:35Madrid solidifies its position with
235. 8:37viral humor at the expense of their
236. 8:38historic rival. Barcelona extends its
237. 8:41lead in the table to six points and
238. 8:42Rodri, the center midfielder that the
239. 8:44club itself let go, continues to play
240. 8:46exactly the organizing role that the
241. 8:48white midfield currently lacks. The
242. 8:51final irony is that Mourinho himself,
243. 8:53in his first stint at the club, was
244. 8:55precisely the coach who broke
245. 8:56Barcelona’s historic hegemony. Today,
246. 8:59more than a decade later, he returns to
247. 9:01a club that is once again chasing the
248. 9:03same eternal rival with the same type
249. 9:05of defensive discourse that once made
250. 9:07him so effective, but which this time
251. 9:09is not enough to turn the results
252. 9:11around on the pitch. Florentino Pérez
253. 9:13bet on Mourinho to regain authority and
254. 9:15results. Seven matchdays later, Real
255. 9:18Madrid has fewer points than with Xabi
256. 9:20Alonso, the same unresolved offensive
257. 9:22coexistence problem, and a coach more
258. 9:24concerned with showing photographs of
259. 9:26referees than explaining why his team
260. 9:28still hasn't found its own identity.
261. 9:30Yeah.