Mourinho’s first journey within the Spanish capital was successful in a number of methods: he reworked Actual Madrid again right into a fiercely aggressive outfit that not solely went toe to toe with Pep Guardiola’s all-conquering Barcelona, however toppled them, overseeing a Copa del Rey closing win over their arch rivals in his debut season earlier than delivering the Liga crown in 2011-12 with a report haul of 100 factors.
Nonetheless, he didn’t take Actual to a Champions League closing, and so they had little alternative however to let Mourinho go after a massively disappointing, trophy-less marketing campaign in 2012-13, throughout which he seemingly misplaced the dressing room over his therapy of Iker Casillas.
The legendary goalkeeper, who amassed 752 appearances in 25 years on the Bernabeu, was relegated to the bench amid experiences that Mourinho was angered by his relationship with fellow Spain internationals at Barcelona. “The connection Jose and I had was very chilly,” Casillas says within the documentary. “In these years, I actually assume it was taken to a restrict the place, ultimately, the rope broke.”
Ex-Actual midfielder Sami Khedira went on to assert that the rift served to show the squad’s greatest stars towards Mourinho, including: “The locker room was a nightmare, truthfully. After that, the connection between Jose and lots of, many gamers was damaged – like Cristiano [Ronaldo] and the Spanish guys, Casillas, Sergio Ramos. And people gamers had been tremendous, tremendous necessary for the environment”
Mourinho, although, has no regrets over how he dealt with the scenario, and feels that Casillas’ perspective spoke volumes in regards to the sense of entitlement working by the staff. “The primary 3 times that I spoke to Casillas, the captain, the very first thing he instructed me was, ‘I wish to ask for extra holidays for the nationwide staff gamers’,” he mentioned. “The second time he spoke to me was, ‘I wish to ask you to place the coaching classes one hour later as a result of on the time you need the coaching classes, there may be a number of visitors in Madrid’. The third time he comes to talk with me was, ‘We do not wish to go to [the] resort. We desire simply to fulfill on matchday and go direct to the stadium to play’. And in a brief time frame, I realised they’re spoilt.”
Quizzed on Casillas’ fraternizing with Barcelona gamers, Mourinho replied in sometimes blunt vogue: “There are issues that I do not settle for and I’ll by no means settle for and when any individual does not respect me, it is an issue. I say, that is Barcelona, Actual Madrid. If you go to the nationwide staff, then you’ll be able to kiss the man, however not now. That is battle.”
