# Real Madrid: Can Mourinho restore the team's spirit - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2097396135157531094 - Source account: [@ActuFoot\_](https://x.com/ActuFoot_) - Source language: French - Target language: English - Duration: 2:03 - Published: 2026-09-09 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/fr/real-madrid-mourinho-peut-il-retrouver-l-esprit-d-%C3%A9quipe.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit) Paris Saint-Germain. Sam, do you believe Mourinho's magic could lend a hand? [0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=2) Yeah, I don't know. Mourinho's magic, at one time, yes. [0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=6) Uh, now... You believe in it less now, yeah. [0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=7) Yeah, now a little less, and like you, I follow La Liga a lot, what they do. And in any case, I think this team has lost, I think, that team spirit for years. [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=18) Before, for me, that was their strength because Real has never been a team that uh, that, uh, that has incredible play, no. [0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=24) Yeah, like Barcelona. Exactly, but they have individuals who can say to themselves: Listen, we're in this together, we're going to work together, that's it. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=30) And even sometimes, they were two-nil down, but you knew that team was capable of going on to win three-two. Exactly. [0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=35) But actually, it's been years that I—me, in any case, when I watch them, I don't feel that anymore. It's a team, when it concedes a goal or two, you think: Ah, they're in trouble. They're in trouble. And that's what I want to see if Mourinho... [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=46) That's why they brought Mourinho back. Yes, that's exactly why. That's why. [0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=48) But now, even watching their match again, ah, I, I struggle. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=52) I feel like, no, it's not right. There are a lot of players, to me, who kind of only think about themselves. [0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=57) And I— it's, it's complicated, you know, to be on a team like that, with so many players who only think about themselves. And back then, there wasn't that. [1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=64) You had players like Modric, Kroos, who'd tell you: Listen, at Madrid, it's Like that. It doesn't work. And now, no, you've got fewer players like that, and that's the difficulty. You've got a Bellingham who's very good, [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=75) but he wants to score. He wants to make a difference. [1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=78) He wants to make a difference. And for me, a midfielder, basically, isn't necessarily that. It's... You somewhat serve your striker. [1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=83) Once you're done with that, you're at peace. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=84) There you go. And, and, and if he manages to do that, to find the right balance, also the balance between those players who want to be important, but also, um, to make them understand that to win, you have to be a united group, then, [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=98) yes. And for me, that's it, that's somewhat his current job. [1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=100) But don't you feel it, Sam, since the start of the season, though? [1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=103) There are, there are, there are, there are... [1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=104) I, yeah, I feel... There have been improvements. [1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=106) Yeah, but I feel like it's kind of… Sometimes I think, wow! Then at a certain point, I think: Oh no, actually, no, it's not working. [1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8F6LJ8fhnBix/en/real-madrid-can-mourinho-restore-the-team-s-spirit?t=114) That's true. That's it, actually. RMC, Rothen sans flamme.