{"id":604524,"date":"2026-09-03T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604524\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:12:10","slug":"luka-modric-reveals-jose-mourinhos-insistent-secret-role-in-real-madrid-transfer-and-plots-santiago-bernabeu-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604524\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Modric reveals Jose Mourinho\u2019s \u2018insistent\u2019 secret role in Real Madrid transfer and plots Santiago Bernabeu return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modric also expressed deep affection and gratitude towards club president Florentino Perez for his role in the move. Still, he maintained that Mourinho&#8217;s initial support and affection from day one meant everything to him.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the pair, their time working together in Spain was ultimately short-lived. The 2012-13 campaign proved to be Mourinho\u2019s final year at the Los Blancos helm. The manager departed after the team failed to secure a major trophy, falling short in the Champions League semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only pity was that I didn\u2019t play under him for more than a year,&#8221; Modric noted. &#8220;I learned a lot in that year with him, but I would have liked to play for him for a longer time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Modric also expressed deep affection and gratitude towards club president Florentino Perez for his role in the move.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25546,85,46,36838,39877,18617,4029,25548,105],"class_list":["post-604524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ac-milan","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-j-mourinho","tag-l-modric","tag-laliga","tag-real-madrid","tag-serie-a","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}