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Real Madrid have said that manager José Mourinho will leave the club at the end of the season. The club president Florentino Perez confirmed that the decision is a mutual one and nobody has been sacked. Mourinho will leave the club after having won only league title as the major trophy. However, he can point to the numerous close shaves that the club had in the European competitions. Real Madrid were knocked out of the Champions League in the semi-final stage on numerous occasions under Mourinho.
Mourinho will be part of the Real Madrid team for the remaining two matches of the season, but then he is widely expected the join Chelsea in the summer. The 50-year-old has managed to win the league title and the Copa del Rey during his three years at the club. This season, they have fallen 13 points behind their arch rivals Barcelona, while they were also defeated by rivals Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey final. Their hopes of winning the 10th European title were destroyed by Borussia Dortmund in the semifinals of the Champions League.
Mourinho has not had the peaceful times at the Santiago Bernabeu, while his fallout with key players of the Real Madrid squad like Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos has also been surprising.
“We’ve decided to bring our relationship to an end. Nobody’s been sacked, it’s a mutual agreement. The club and manager agree the timing is right to bring our relationship to an end. On behalf of the board of directors, I would like to thank Jose Mourinho for all his hard work. The team has improved in his three years and we wish him all the best. We have no pre-contract signed with any managerial candidate,” said Perez while also declining suggestions that Ancelotti could be the next manager at Real Madrid.
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The Real Madrid players Sergio Ramos and the captain Iker Casillas have confirmed in a statement that they did not demand the exit of the manager José Mourinho in order to stay at the club. There have been a lot of reports in Spain that the two Spanish players requested the Real Madrid president Florentino Perez that he should sack the manager Mourinho or they would be handing transfer requests in the summer. Perez immediately confirmed that he did have a meeting with the two players, but he suggested that there was no truth in the newspaper reports that they demanded Mourinho’s exit.
The former Chelsea and the Inter Milan manager has had a terrible spell at the club apart from a few success. The team managed to win the league title for the first time in three seasons last year, but they have been extremely poor in this season. It has been largely due to several in-house fighting involving the manager and the players. The Portuguese manager has been unable to bring together all the egos within the team. He recently dropped the captain Iker Casillas from the starting line-up, which has led to even more trouble within the club.
“We want to show our support for the character of our coach Jose Mourinho. The two captains of Real Madrid want to communicate the following: That the meeting held on Tuesday with the president and CEO of the club never raised any ultimatum from us regarding the character of our coach. We want to show our support for the character of our coach, Jose Mourinho, to whom we owe the greatest respect,” said a statement by the two players on the official website of the club. Madrid have fallen 15 points behind archrivals Barcelona in the table after a poor first half of the season.
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The Spanish football journalist Graham Hunter has said that he feels that the Real Madrid goalkeeper Antonio Adan is suffering as a result of the fight between the manager José Mourinho and the number one at the club – Iker Casillas. Mourinho has recently fallen out with the 31-year-old goalkeeper Iker Casillas, who is rated as one of the important players in the Real Madrid squad. He also holds a special place in the history of the club after having made his debut as an 18-year-old, while he has been part of numerous successes over the years.
Yet, Mourinho has dropped him for the last two matches citing poor performances and form in recent weeks. In his place, the Portuguese manager has decided to use the youth team product Adan. The move has not paid dividends because Adan has been unable to prevent Real Madrid from slumping to a defeat in the recent match against Malaga, although due to no fault of his own. The journalist Hunter believes that the youngster is suffering from a lot of pressure as a result of the fight between Mourinho and Casillas because he has been subject to a lot of abuse from the Real Madrid supporters in recent weeks.
“I’ve no doubt this is a disciplinary thing based on a running feud. It’s the wrong decision, for the wrong reasons, at the wrong time. I have sympathy for Adan; he’s a decent guy, with whom Casillas has a terrific relationship, a guy who could have gone on to be Real Madrid’s goalkeeper, potentially, or gone on to another big club. He was persuaded to stay in the summer but this is part of the premium for having stayed,” said Hunter. Real Madrid have fallen a massive 16 points behind the arch rivals Barcelona in the table.
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