{"id":587344,"date":"2026-05-16T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587344\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:24:08","slug":"real-madrid-alvaro-arbeloa-would-be-happy-with-jose-mourinho-replacing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587344\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid: Alvaro Arbeloa would be ‘happy’ with Jose Mourinho replacing him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arbeloa has also faced criticism from France striker Kylian Mbappe after he was left out of the starting line-up for Los Blancos’ 2-0 win over Real Oviedo.<\/p>\n

Mbappe had missed his side’s two previous games, including last weekend’s El Clasico which Barcelona won to secure the league title, with a thigh injury and was whistled by his own fans<\/a> when he came on.<\/p>\n

The World Cup winner has faced scrutiny over his commitment to the club in recent weeks while an online petition calling for ‘Mbappe Out’ attracted tens of millions of signatures.<\/p>\n

But the manager played down the incident on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“I’ve just bumped into him, I told him to stay calm. I understand that these kinds of things make headlines, but it’s something much more normal than you think,” Arbeloa said.<\/p>\n

“I used to be a player, I know what they can feel in these situations – playing every day, then playing less or not at all.<\/p>\n

“I totally understand that Kylian wasn’t happy about not playing on Thursday, and I like that.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t understand it if he didn’t want to play. My relationship with him remains the same.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arbeloa has also faced criticism from France striker Kylian Mbappe after he was left out of the starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-587344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}