# José Mourinho on his evolution and the Real Madrid dressing room - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2089849651771916573 - Source account: [@MMajeedX](https://x.com/MMajeedX) - Source language: Spanish - Target language: English - Duration: 5:20 - Published: 2026-08-18 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/es/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-habla-de-su-evoluci%C3%B3n-y-del-vestuario-del-real-madrid.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room) Likewise, thank you very much. What has happened in these, in these 13 years since you left until now? [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=5) What, what, what Mourinho? How has José Mourinho changed? [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=9) So much. As a person, as a coach— So much has changed. [0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=14) Right? Yes, yes. Yes, yes. What, what is, what is, what is the Mourinho? What is today's Mourinho like? [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=20) I would say the same… DNA, obviously. I can't, I can't hide or try to be what I'm not. [0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=29) Mmm. Much more, uh… maturity. Less, less emotional, more in control. As always, since always, learning from, from mistakes. [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=46) Mmm. But never with this feeling that I regret this or that. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=52) Right. Because I think that in life, regretting something that happened doesn't help you at all. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=60) Learning from, from experiences, yes. And this, this job of, of being a coach, I think is something that the more experience we have, the more things feel like déjà vu— Uh. [1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=76) Ah, they seem to you, mmm, the more quality you have. Then— W-We'd be a more boring Mourinho. [1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=85) I wouldn't say— …more boring. I wouldn't say more boring. [1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=89) I think that… I think that in the end DNA always wins. [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=95) Yes. In the end, it always wins. But I wouldn't say more boring, no, not entirely. [1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=103) And now with makeup you were covering the, the bump— Yes. [1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=105) The bruise you had— Yes in your eye. Some people thought there had been a fight between Valverde and Tchouaméni and you were in the middle. [1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=113) No, it wasn't. It was… poor Lacosta, a kid from, from Castilla— Yes who hit me with a ball. I was wearing, I was wearing glasses— Well and it hit me, it hit me bad. [2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=128) Luckily— But no, that's not why he wasn't called up for the last match. [2:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=132) It wasn't because of that. No, it wasn't because of that. [2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=134) I was making the, the joke, joking about Tchouaméni and Valverde. [2:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=136) You know there was a conflict in the dressing room. [2:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=137) What kind of dressing room did you find? [2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=140) I found a dressing room with a real desire to win, as the end result of hard work. [2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=151) I found a dressing room open to, um, to common sense, because everything I've asked of them since the first day is common sense. [2:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=165) Um, so far I haven't, I haven't had a single opportunity to be the aggressive leader that I can also be and is also part of my DNA, but they have protected me from this version, which is also mine. [3:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=187) In other words, they've protected you? Yes, yes. [3:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=188) The players? Yes, yes, because their behavior is, is, um, is untouchable. Um, everything I have asked of them as basic, negotiable principles, which, deep down, I told them: "What I'm asking for is common sense." [3:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=203) Me saying you have to be here an hour before training and not five minutes before is common sense, it's modern football. [3:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=212) You have to arrive early, you have to h-- have breakfast monitored by a nutritionist, you have to, um, go to the gym every day to do prevention. It's for you, it's for us. [3:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=224) Everything I've-- I've asked them for is common sense. [3:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=227) Well, well, but— And so far— That sounds very easy, but accepting it isn't so easy. [3:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=232) Look, for now— If José Mourinho says it, it's easier. [3:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=234) We're not immune to the fact that during the season something might happen, which is also very normal to happen. [4:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=243) But so far, they haven't given me any, any chance. [4:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=247) But it's because, because when Mourinho arrives at a dressing room, players fall in line. [4:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=252) I don't know, I don't know if it's that— Of course, of course. or if it's the responsibility of, as I say, of working for Real Madrid, which is a fundamental thing for me. Th— this thing of working at Real Madrid is not something that, that I like a lot. [4:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=269) I love working for Real Madrid. You even sleep here sometimes, right? At Valdebebas. Do you sleep here? [4:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=274) Yes, yes. What happens? During my first spell, my first spell here I had young, uh, kids. [4:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=281) Yes. And we were all here, wife, kids, ah, we were all here. Now kids, 29, 26, ah, both of them live in, in London. [4:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=292) And my wife is this woman, this mo— this Portuguese mother who spends a lot of time with the kids. [5:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=300) Yes. He's not ten, 14 anymore, he's 26, 29, but he still is. [5:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=306) And when he comes to, to Madrid, I'm thrilled they're here, but when they're not, I'm always at, at Valdebebas, and when I leave here at six, seven… [5:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DeNG4ziaR9rO/en/jos%C3%A9-mourinho-on-his-evolution-and-the-real-madrid-dressing-room?t=318) Well, the, uh—