I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change!

So it was at the press conference that named Jose Mourinho as the 11th coach of Real Madrid in just over seven years.

And all the roumors and tic-tac about the way Mourinho will change Real game ended with a clear "But the strength of my team will always be the team, not individuals." Nothing more, nothing less. In this regard I would say that Real will now slide to a more effective and pragmatic style of play rather than "joy-of-play-winning-nothing" style. Remember Capello? And although most of the media point out that he will bring major changes in the squad, it looks that, as always, Mou will not heavily shake the team. 2,3 new players with selling the same, to keep the finance balanced. As he did at Inter :) 

One thing is making me bet on his succes on Real (besides his abilities of turning a mediocre team in a successful one): finding the right time to takeover as it was the time when he left Porto for Chelsea and also when he took over Inter, now it's the same with Real.

- He came in London at a time when Arsenal could not find the pace to compete 38 games for more then one season, Liverpool were aiming most of the times for European silverware instead of domestic ones and - more important - he find a tired United which were in period of squad changing.
- Same in Italy, at Inter - Juve rebuilding squad saga, AS Roma - a team of everything you want but not a winner and a AC Milan transformed in old papa asylum.
- Now in Spain he "find" almost the same situation - Barca is tired and although they try to revitalize their squad it remains to be seen if it will succeed, Valencia is out of question after offloading their stars and Sevilla is a good team but not the kind you see it in for a long fight. All the others are the others.

So, all in one, Mou is coming at the right time, in the right place. Is a gift to know to do this :)