AS newspaper<\/a> published Valverde’s remarks, in which he said: “I did not expect the coach Jose Mourinho to be this way, during the days I have spent with him.”<\/p>\n“Mourinho is close to the players,” he continued. “In the end, he is someone who is with us in his nature and personality. Sometimes he is tough, but I think that is the way one can develop. I like the way he deals with us, and the way he deals with me personally.”<\/p>\n
His praise didn’t stop at the new coach. It extended to new teammate Bernardo Silva too.<\/p>\n
“Bernardo Silva is charming, funny and cheerful, and he has also integrated well with the entire team,” the Uruguayan star said. “He is a wonderful player whom I always admired when he was an opponent, and today we are able to have him with us.”<\/p>\n
What about Rodri, the Manchester City star who turned down Real Madrid and chose Barcelona instead? Valverde kept his answer short: “Rodri’s decision? I am talking about myself, and I focus only on the club and my teammates.”<\/p>\n
Turning to the Ferencvaros friendly, he explained: “We try to do what the coach wants, and to apply his ideas. There are many absent players, but in any case, we are improving little by little.”<\/p>\n
“I am enjoying having Mourinho with us here very much,” he noted, “and I try, as I said in an interview, to learn from him and to make the most of every day I train with him and his coaching staff.”<\/p>\n
He signed off on the armband. “I carry a great responsibility in wearing the captain’s armband. I try to make every player in the dressing room happy, to feel comfortable, and to have positive energy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fede Valverde, the Real Madrid captain, spoke to the media at the Groupama Arena in Budapest following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26176,92,10392,1414,85,82,83,1102],"class_list":["post-68050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-b-silva","tag-barcelona","tag-f-valverde","tag-j-mourinho","tag-laliga","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-rodri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}