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Real Madrid President Florentino Perez has ruled out an immediate return of the recently sacked Chelsea and former Madrid manager Jose Mourinho to the Spanish capital. Perez insists that the Los Blancos are satisfied with their newly appointed but under-fire manager Rafa Benitez, and won’t be looking for the new manager any time soon.
Mourinho was sacked by Premier League side Chelsea on Thursday, following their 9th defeat in their Premier League campaign against Leicester City. But, Perez was adamant that Rafa will stay as the manager staying, “No one knows the future but right now no, because we have Rafa Benítez and we are not thinking beyond Rafa,” as the Guardian reports.
“Rafa is the person that we have chosen”
Despite doing reasonably well in the first half of the 2015-16 season as the Los Merengues have qualified for the Round of 16 clash by topping their group and are just 5 points adrift of the league leaders Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, Benitez was heavily criticised after Real Madrid succumbed to a 4-0 defeat against Barcelona at home.
Perez added, “We hired Benítez to sort out a specific problem. He was the right man among the many possibilities that we had. And if we believed that he was the right man at the start of the season we can’t three months later say he is not. We have a great coach. Rafa is the person that we have chosen and we have to let him work with the collaboration of all the players. I talk to the players and it is not true that they do not get on with him.”
“But all coaches come and they all have to go”
Mourinho was given the charge of the Los Blancos ahead of the 2010 season and had a win rate of 71.91% in the 3 season he spent at Santiago Bernabeu. During his tenure, he won the La Liga in the 2011-12 season and the Copa Del Rey in the 2010-11 season with the Spanish Giants.
Perez insisted he has good memories of Jose Mourinho while he was at the club and added, “I have good memories of Mourinho. He raised our competitive level. When Mourinho came we had been knocked out for six straight seasons in the round of 16 of the Champions League and we were 13th in the UEFA rankings, and when he left we were number one and we made it to three consecutive semi-finals always losing in unlucky circumstances.
"He gave us a competitive boost. But all coaches come and they all have to go,” he concluded.
Real Madrid will play their next La Liga match against Rayo Vallecano on 20th Dec 2015.
