{"id":1619,"date":"2026-05-07T17:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:04:58","slug":"mourinho-holds-talks-with-florentino-perez-over-real-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/mourinho-holds-talks-with-florentino-perez-over-real-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho holds talks with Florentino Perez over Real return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-5.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-5-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-5-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jose Mourinho has reportedly met with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez as discussions over a sensational return to the Bernabeu gather pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real Madrid are set to go for a second consecutive season without a trophy, and incumbent manager Alvaro Arbeloa will leave the club this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s since been widely reported that Benfica boss Mourinho, 63, is Perez\u2019s preferred candidate to take over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports on Esdiario and journalist Sergio Valentin, the two had a video call to help hash out the details of Mourinho\u2019s potential return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report adds that the meeting included Mourinho\u2019s long-term agent Jorge Mendes, although he simply acted as an observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Mourinho has reportedly met with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez as discussions over a sensational return to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}