Perez Announces Jose Mourinho As New Real Madrid Manager

BusinessSportsMoneyPerez Announces Jose Mourinho As New Real Madrid ManagerByTom Sanderson,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Sanderson has been primarily based in Barcelona since 2019.Follow AuthorJun 03, 2026, 04:43pm EDTJun 03, 2026, 04:49pm EDTReal Madrid president Florentino Perez used his X account to announce Jose Mourinho as the new manager of the first team.Real Madrid via Getty ImagesReal Madrid president Florentino Perez used his X account to announce Jose Mourinho as the new manager of the first team on Wednesday evening.That’s if Perez wins re-election on June 7, when he’ll go head to head with Enrique Riquelme to battle for the right to stay as the 15-time Champions League winner’s leader.Perez made his announcement while Riquelme was appearing on the El Hormiguero program on Spanish television.Perez’s post used the caption “MOUcha historia para hacer”, which is a play on the Portuguese’s surname or nickname “Mou” and the Spanish word for “a lot”.The phrase translates as a “a lot of history to be made”, which Perez promises if he wins at the polls.“While on the television they talk and talk and talk…," the announcement video begins, before Mourinho is shown in a Real Madrid shirt saying a simple “Si”, or “Yes”.By the Spanish media, this has been taken as Perez announcing the rehiring of a figure he placed in the dugout in the early 2010s, when Mourinho was at his peak and regarded one of the best managers in the world.MORE FOR YOUMourinho will have a similar message to that era at Real MadridBack then, Mourinho was charged with dethroning Pep Guardiola and one of the greatest club teams of all time led by Lionel Messi.Though Champions League glory eluded his Madrid side, it did win La Liga with a 100-point season and sent Guardiola off on a sabbatical tired with life in Spain.On this occasion, Barca are again dominant in Spain and have another genius number 10 from La Masia with a wand of a...