{"id":2189,"date":"2026-09-29T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2026-09-29T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:21:33","slug":"mourinho-turned-down-portugal-to-seal-real-madrid-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/mourinho-turned-down-portugal-to-seal-real-madrid-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho turned down Portugal to seal Real Madrid return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-39.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-39-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-39-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portuguese FA wanted Mourinho to take charge of the national side, but the Setubal tactician rejected the offer in favour of Real Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portugal train has departed once again without Mourinho aboard. Spanish daily &#8216;AS&#8217; recently revealed that the Portuguese Football Federation approached the tactician before the World Cup, only to be met with a firm rejection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, rather than opening negotiations to take charge of his country, &#8216;The Special One&#8217; prioritised contact from Florentino Perez regarding a return to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having endured two seasons without silverware, the &#8216;Merengue&#8217; hierarchy urgently sought a proven figure to steady the ship and identified Mourinho as their man. The manager made his desire to return abundantly clear, and the Portuguese FA had to accept his stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portuguese FA wanted Mourinho to take charge of the national side, but the Setubal tactician rejected the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","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\/2189","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=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}