Jose Mourinho to leave Real Madrid

Real Madrid announced that head coach Jose Mourinho will leave the club at the end of the season after three years in charge of the Spanish giants.

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez broke the news at a packed news conference on Monday.

"Nobody's been sacked, it's a mutual agreement," said Perez. "We've decided to bring our relationship to an end."

This has been coming; Mourinho has made it clear on numerous occasions that he wasn’t happy, that he didn’t feel loved, for the first time in his career he’d fallen out with key players, and the fans.

This obviously paves the way for a return to Chelsea, but given what happened last time he was there, when he fell out with the owner and left, this is one of the few times in Mourinho’s career where there’s a little bit of a question mark against him.

Will the same happen again? Can he replicate what he did first time round?

It’s also a little strange when you analyse his time in Madrid he won the cup in his first season, then in his second season he won the league with a record amount of wins, points and goals, this season he got to the cup final, and on top of that made it to the last four of the Champions League in all three seasons he’s been there, yet he’s leaving on a rather sour and unfulfilled note.

He was brought to Madrid to win them their 10^th European Cup/Champions League trophy, and he didn’t quite manage to do it, yet if you look at it in the last three seasons he’s done exactly the same as what Mancini did with City, cup, league, cup final and he did much better in Europe, yet Mancini can be called very unlucky to have been sacked, whereas you can argue that Mourinho has underachieved.

However you may view his time in Madrid I’m glad he’s coming back to England, albeit he is going to Chelsea, he is a character and his presence will enhance the league next season the answers he gives to questions are much more refreshing than the obvious text-book stuff you get from a lot of the others.