{"id":72059,"date":"2026-08-18T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/72059\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:02:12","slug":"real-madrids-great-dilemma-will-mourinho-challenge-a-spectre-that-toppled-ancelotti-and-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/72059\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid&#8217;s great dilemma: Will Mourinho challenge a spectre that toppled Ancelotti and Alonso?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafa Alkorta, for his part, stressed that success runs deeper than tactical diagrams and comes down to leadership. &#8220;Beyond tactical style, the key lies in the management needed to change the course of a team that for two years has relied on individuals more than being an integrated group,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reconciling this ego and this pride&#8221; is &#8220;the most difficult matter&#8221;, Alkorta explained, and something none of the previous coaches managed to achieve.\n<\/p>\n<p>The former defender still backed the Portuguese coach. &#8220;He is the only one capable of making them understand that solidarity is not a trivial thing, but rather a necessary element for winning league and cup titles,&#8221; Alkorta said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Benito warned that Real Madrid&#8217;s squad hands the coach the toughest man-management task he has ever faced this season. &#8220;With Bellingham, Diomande, Mbapp\u00e9 and Vini, you have four attackers who are untouchable. In principle, it is a team liable to break apart. And who holds the balance? Everyone must,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain offered Benito his example. &#8220;It has shattered every myth in football, because they play with Vitinha, Jo\u00e3o Neves and Fabi\u00e1n, with two very attacking full-backs, and the team does not break apart because everyone presses and everyone works,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafa Alkorta, for his part, stressed that success runs deeper than tactical diagrams and comes down to leadership.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15396,187,3338,1414,416,85,82,83,2420,3528,24477],"class_list":["post-72059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-c-ancelotti","tag-champions-league","tag-j-bellingham","tag-j-mourinho","tag-k-mbappe","tag-laliga","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-vinicius-junior","tag-x-alonso","tag-y-diomande"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72059","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=72059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}