{"id":635004,"date":"2026-10-03T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/635004\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:18:09","slug":"its-all-a-process-marc-cucurella-defends-jose-mourinhos-rocky-real-madrid-start-after-e55m-summer-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/635004\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It\u2019s all a process&#8217; &#8211; Marc Cucurella defends Jose Mourinho\u2019s rocky Real Madrid start after \u20ac55m summer move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain head coach Luis de la Fuente recently noted that Cucurella looks &#8220;sensational&#8221; in a red shirt, suggesting the national team setup allows certain players to operate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/spain-luis-de-la-fuente-real-madrid-marc-cucurella\/blt54aa514033b673da\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">at a level &#8220;far superior&#8221; to their club form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cucurella did not shy away from the discrepancy, vowing to replicate his international standards for his new club. &#8220;It&#8217;s not even been 10 games yet,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There are things to improve, of course. We basically had no pre-season, while it&#8217;s a new club for me. I have to adapt to my new team-mates and give my best so that the player you see with the national team is the same player with Real Madrid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite his recent club woes, Cucurella&#8217;s stellar year has earned him a Ballon d&#8217;Or nomination alongside international colleague Lamine Yamal and club team-mate Kylian Mbappe. &#8220;If it was up to me to vote, I would vote for myself,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/-real-madrid-star-marc-cucurella-ballon-d-or-choice-two-nominees-\/blte9a00916229328f6\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he joked<\/a>. &#8220;But no, two of the candidates to win it are team-mates, so whoever wins it, I will be happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain head coach Luis de la Fuente recently noted that Cucurella looks &#8220;sensational&#8221; in a red shirt, suggesting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1998,85,46,36838,84274,78591,18617,157906,4029,2727,286766,105,252612],"class_list":["post-635004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-j-mourinho","tag-k-mbappe","tag-l-yamal","tag-laliga","tag-m-cucurella","tag-real-madrid","tag-spain","tag-spain-vs-czechia","tag-sports","tag-uefa-nations-league-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635004","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=635004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}