{"id":366,"date":"2025-01-02T21:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2025-01-02T21:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T13:39:03","slug":"jose-mourinho-reveals-regret-over-real-madrid-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/jose-mourinho-reveals-regret-over-real-madrid-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho reveals &#8216;regret&#8217; over Real Madrid departure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2-768x539.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portuguese manager opens up about his decision to leave Real Madrid in 2013, despite Florentino Perez&#8217;s plea for him to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jose Mourinho has expressed regret over his departure from Real Madrid in 2013. In a recent interview with CorSport, Mourinho admitted, &#8220;Saying no to Florentino Perez remains one of the big regrets.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portuguese manager revealed that Perez, Real Madrid&#8217;s president, had urged him to stay at the club. &#8220;He told me: Don&#8217;t leave now, you&#8217;ve done the hard part and the good part is yet to come. Stay at Real Madrid,&#8221; Mourinho recounted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Perez&#8217;s persuasion, Mourinho chose to return to Chelsea. &#8220;But I wanted to return to Chelsea after 3 tough years in Spain!&#8221; he explained. Mourinho&#8217;s tenure at Real Madrid was marked by intense rivalry with Barcelona and significant pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His decision to leave came after a season without major trophies, despite winning La Liga the previous year. The manager&#8217;s revelation sheds light on the complex relationships in football&#8217;s upper echelons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mourinho&#8217;s candid admission adds a human element to his often controversial public persona. This insight into his career choices offers fans a glimpse of the difficult decisions managers face at the highest level of the sport.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portuguese manager opens up about his decision to l [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}