{"id":52542,"date":"2026-05-22T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=52542"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:28:58","slug":"alvaro-arbeloa-says-i-will-not-stay-with-the-next-coach-rules-out-working-with-jose-mourinho-at-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/alvaro-arbeloa-says-i-will-not-stay-with-the-next-coach-rules-out-working-with-jose-mourinho-at-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1lvaro Arbeloa says \u201cI Will NOT Stay with the Next Coach\u201d \u2013 Rules out working with Jos\u00e9 Mourinho at Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">Former Real Madrid player and current first-team coach <strong>\u00c1lvaro Arbeloa<\/strong> has made it clear that he will not remain part of the coaching staff under the next head coach \u2014 especially if Jos\u00e9 Mourinho returns to the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">Arbeloa Firmly Shuts Door on Mourinho Collaboration<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"auto\">In a recent interview, Arbeloa was direct and left no room for speculation. When asked about his future and the possibility of working alongside Jos\u00e9 Mourinho, the Spanish coach stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cI will NOT stay with the next coach as part of the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"auto\">He continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cJos\u00e9 Mourinho has a fantastic coaching staff, he\u2019s very well surrounded. If he arrives, he\u2019ll do so with his own people, as it should be. There\u2019s NO possibility of me being with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">Arbeloa\u2019s Relationship with Real Madrid<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Arbeloa, a Champions League winner as a player under Mourinho in 2014 (during his second stint at the club), has been part of the Real Madrid coaching setup since retiring. He has worked closely with the youth teams and recently joined the senior team staff.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">His respect for Mourinho as a coach is evident, but he believes each manager should bring their own trusted team \u2014 a common practice in top-level football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Real Madrid player and current first-team coach \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa has made it clear that he will not remain part\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":52543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52544,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542\/revisions\/52544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}