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Posted By Udokabestluv On January 19th, 2026

Former Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho has dismissed rumours about coming back to the club to take over from Alvaro Arbeloa.

The Portuguese coach is currently the manager at Benfica, a club he joined earlier this season.

Mourinho spoke after his Benfica team beat Rio Ave in the Liga Portugal match on Saturday night.

The experienced strategist asked the media to stop featuring him in ‘soap operas’, saying he thinks the speculations are made up.
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“Real Madrid?” He said, “Stop including me in your ‘soap opera,” he said via @MadridXtra on X as quoted by Sportskeeda.

Mourinho’s Benfica got their first win in three games on the same day that Arbeloa’s team also beat Levante with a 2-0 score.

Jose Mourinho became the manager of Real Madrid after leading Inter Milan in the Serie A, where he won three major trophies in the 2009-10 season.

The Portuguese coach took charge of Los Blancos and guided them to win the league in the 2011-12 season.

His team set records by scoring the most points, goals, and achieving the most wins in a single season of the top Spanish league.

He quit the job in 2013 and returned to Chelsea. Several well-known managers are now connected with the position at the Bernabeu after Xabi Alonso was fired last week.

The former Castilla manager Arbeloa is now in charge, but there are reports that the club’s president, Florentino Perez, would like to have Jürgen Klopp leading the team.