{"id":644762,"date":"2026-05-15T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644762\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:38:08","slug":"mourinho-speaks-on-mbappe-arbeloa-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644762\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho speaks on Mbapp\u00e9-Arbeloa feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Benfica manager Jos\u00e9 Mourinho, who is on Real Madrid\u2019s radar to coach the team next season, was asked about the Kylian Mbapp\u00e9-\u00c1lvaro Arbeloa controversy during Friday\u2019s press conference with Benfica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt makes me sad because Arbeloa is a friend, he is one of those who gave soul and life when he was a player of mine. Now that he is the Real Madrid manager, our connection is even stronger, just like my connection to the club. I want things to go well for him. Being a player is always easier than being the manager. But he won the game yesterday and I\u2019m sure he is happy today,\u201d said Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Given that there\u2019s a good chance the Portuguese manager coaches Mbapp\u00e9 next season, seeing Mourinho defending Arbeloa in this instance is relevant. Mourinho also said that he will think about his future on Sunday, right after Benfica end their season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benfica manager Jos\u00e9 Mourinho, who is on Real Madrid\u2019s radar to coach the team next season, was asked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[55854,403,99],"class_list":["post-644762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-real-madrid-cf-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}