Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said Saturday that if he were winger Vinicius Junior , he would have left the club this summer.
“If it were me in his place, probably I wouldn’t be here. In this last summer I would have forced an exit to a league, a country, to somewhere there are rival clubs and stadiums that respect him.
“He’s a spectacular kid who it’s easy to have a good relationship with,” Mourinho told reporters. “Because he loves Real Madrid, for loving the club and the city, for believing that things can always improve, he renewed and he keeps on smiling,” continued Mourinho.
Mourinho took Vinicius off during the 4-3 Champions League win at Roma on Wednesday, with the winger still struggling to return to the form that helped him win the competition twice under Carlo Ancelotti. Because he’s human… but take away his joy of living and working and being with his team-mates, no, no one can do that, “No one or nobody can… well, influence him negatively yes,.
Mourinho said he was happy that Vinicius’s ban was four matches, saying he thought some hidden figures at the Spanish football federation’s disciplinary committee “would give him one or two more”. On Friday Real Madrid called for La Liga president Javier Tebas to resign after he compared the club’s efforts to discredit referees to the techniques of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
