According to Daily Sport, since Mourinho's return to Real Madrid, the team's problems remain unchanged. He wants to see fire, not arrogance, in his players' eyes, but the players blame external factors for their failures.

More than 100 days have passed since Mourinho officially returned to Real Madrid. He only appeared publicly after the Madrid derby, a defeat that Real Madrid blamed on the referee. This marked the end of the Portuguese manager's "zen phase," when he used to praise the referee's work when results were good. That calm, smooth version is now gone.

Mourinho is a copy machine. Like the printout he gave to the media — hopefully HP printed it, for the sponsors' sake — it's as if he just filed a report at a police station. This is a repeat of the excuses Real Madrid has carefully fabricated for their consecutive failures over the years. What happened at the Metropolitano is a replay of previous seasons.

So much so that the native of Setúbal lined up Tchouaméni, Valverde, Bellingham, Arda Güler, Vinicius, and Mbappé in the starting XI, exactly as Xabi Alonso arranged them last season. The same key players, the same bad habits. A team without a soul. Even as he accuses the football world of conspiring against him, his posture is one of surrender. Courtois kissed the Real Madrid badge after the final whistle. Real Madrid's best player hid behind love for a jersey, a jersey that no one has truly sweat for in a long time, because the collective consciousness simply does not exist.

Only one place remains: internal dignity. They think they are stronger than they believe, hoping that conviction will help them win the truly important matches. The main figures from the Netflix documentary — which portrayed Mourinho well — say that the Portuguese manager can ignite the fire in the eyes of very different players like Lampard, Ibrahimović, and Eto'o. But at Real Madrid, where he now coaches, there is only arrogance. It's hard to go to battle like that, and this seems to be the only way out for a disorganized team, which Florentino brought back the last person capable of changing its nature.

The coddling, and to some extent the indulgence, seen in the embrace of Real Madrid's players, does not heal wounds. It simply grants them forgiveness, making them feel they did nothing wrong, and that the fault belongs to an endless conspiracy.

This has nothing to do with the match itself. The coddling, and to some extent the indulgence, seen in the embrace of these players, does not heal wounds. It simply grants them forgiveness, making them feel they did nothing wrong, and that the fault belongs to an endless conspiracy. For some fans, this may be enough, but Real Madrid supporters want to win. Therefore, if they cannot win, everything else is secondary.

Ancelotti, Xabi Alonso, Arbeloa... a hopeless coaching bench.

Mourinho is a copy machine, just like Ancelotti, Xabi Alonso, and Arbeloa before him. These very different managers ultimately became a laughingstock for their own club. A few months ago, even the most devoted fans of the 2010-2013 era did not expect the return of this unconventional manager.

But he himself realized that football has changed too much. He pioneered systematizing defense and training based on ball control. He won titles with an aging squad, built championship projects like Porto, and awakened the soul of the Galácticos-era Real Madrid, a team that had been consumed by Guardiola's Barcelona.

The problem is, Real Madrid no longer bets on these types of players. The midfield void left by Kroos and Modrić cannot be filled. They will not return. In modern football, you must be a developer, like Flick. To do that, players must constantly learn. But at this Real Madrid, they frown at Xabi Alonso's videos and pay attention to nothing but their own feet. Players put personal interests above the club's interests, turning the club into a copy machine endlessly repeating failure, to prove that Mourinho — or anyone else — is not the solution either.

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