And secondly because the results will come. But even if they don’t come, the team will have learned a lot under “Mou”. I think the spanish media should get off Mourinho’s back and instead be grateful that Mourinho is actually coaching a team where two back-to-back negative results leads to such rabid speculating.
And that is the heart of the problem with being the trainer of Madrid, the crowd always want the ball to be passed forward down the pitch, they hate a run of bad form and hate bad results even more. Even if the team leads a game with two goals at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, they still want more. It’s like being a kid who wants candy from their parents and they don’t get it, then they start moaning about it.
“It´s human nature that it´s easier motivating the players when coming from bad results. If you are complacent, then there will become a negative dynamic. For new motivations to be found you need to feel ambition and responsibility, and then the new results (the good ones) will come.” – Mourinho
I’ve been watching the team for 15 years, and during Mourinhos time in the club all the players follow orders at the utmost. And if they do not, then they’ll be sold, like Pedro León this summer. The problem as I see it with the team today is that whenever Madrid takes the lead in a game, they tend to switch to a form of fantasy football, a type of football that lacks tactical instructions. To put it into cleartext; Madrid in this mode resemble in some ways the old Madrid or Galacticos if you so wish.
And the only man who can break this pattern is Mourinho, therefore if I were a real fan of Real Madrid, then i would just shut my mouth. Another thing that is worth mentioning is that Barcelona are in many, many ways the biggest club on the continent right now and it is Mourinho, who has made this enormous effort during his time in charge, so that the team have gotten closer to their rivals. A big difference that the media seems to have forgotten, just because of two drawn matches. A shame.