{"id":1018,"date":"2026-06-02T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:47:24","slug":"revealed-real-madrid-now-have-to-pay-more-for-jose-mourinho-as-benfica-break-clause-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Real Madrid now have to pay MORE for Jose Mourinho as Benfica break clause expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"A\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Real Madrid must now navigate the presidential vote scheduled for June 7 before formally completing Mourinho&#8217;s return. Although the expiration of the Benfica clause has increased the financial cost of the deal, it is not expected to alter Madrid&#8217;s plans. Mourinho remains Perez&#8217;s preferred candidate, and the club appears determined to press ahead with a reunion aimed at restoring success in Spain and Europe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, Mourinho&#8217;s return to the Santiago Bernabeu could be doomed if Riquelme surprisingly wins the election and becomes club president, as he has previously insisted that Los Blancos&#8217; new manager has never managed the Spanish giants before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid must now navigate the presidential vote scheduled for June 7 before formally completing Mourinho&#8217;s return. Although the expiration&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}