Following Perez election victory Jose Mourinho's highly anticipated return to Real Madrid is set to be confirmed following Florentino Perez's re-election as club president.
Perez confirmed the appointment during his victory speech after defeating challenger Enrique Riquelme, delivering on his campaign promise to reinstall the Portuguese tactician at the Bernabeu Stadium.
Mourinho, 63, has reportedly agreed to a three year contract to succeed Alvaro Arbeloa, who took charge in January.
This marks a high stakes reunion for Mourinho, who previously managed Los Blancos from 2010 to 2013.
"We have won the elections and will continue working to keep winning titles," Perez stated on the club's official website. "
We will fight until the end to achieve the 16th European Cup and we are proud to welcome back one of the best coaches in the world, a true Madridista like Jose Mourinho."
While Mourinho secured La Liga and a Copa del Rey during his first stint in Madrid, the pressure will be on, the current Benfica boss hasn't captured a domestic league title since his 2014-15 Premier league title with Chelsea.
PEREZ ELECTION
Florentino Perez was re-elected as president of Real Madrid until 2030 after a landslide victory at Bernabeu.
In his victory speech, he called the result extraordinary and Madrid's second best electoral showing in club history, since 2004. He also claimed the margin could be bigger, saying nearly 1,000 mail in votes were annulled over procedural issues that the club will appeal.
Perez said ''I'm still here, and I'm here to defend Real Madrid ".
"We'll keep working so Real Madrid keeps winning titles, and we will fight to the end for the 16th European Cup. Today you showed your commitment and loyalty. Real Madrid has won, and we've set an example to the world of democracy, transparency and coexistence."
The 79 year old president struck a defiant tone on the club's independence. "This is the Real Madrid we all want. Independent, unafraid of challenges or obstacles. With me as president, Real Madrid has been, is, and will be owned by its members."
Perez also confirmed plan to welcome back Jose Mourinho, calling him one of the best coaches in the world." He closed by praising the Bernabeu as the best stadium in the world and vowed to address concerns from members who didn't vote for him.
Alvaro Arbeloa had already started feeding the bunker mentality, but Mourinho is the original architect. For a president who's losing control of his own dressing room, the appeal is obvious.
HOW DOES MOURINHO COMING TO MADRID EFFECT THE TEAM
Madrid's squad is fractured. There have been player bust ups. Vinicius Jr. got his wish when xabi Alonso was sacked. Kalian Mbapped still feels like an outsider, and he's not widely loved inside the club. And two straight seasons without a major trophy, but you've got a club in crisis.
Into that mess walks a manager with an iron fist, a famous name, and zero tolerance for insubordination. Mourinho doesn't manage egos, he breaks them.
But wanting control isn't the same as knowing how to use it. Before Madrid start celebrating the return of Mourinho there's a harder question. Will he make the same mistake again?
The number aren't kind. No league title in 11 years. Sacked or pushed out in five of his last six jobs.
Tottenham all or nothing documentary laid it bare: tedious training, disengaged players, halftime talk swinging from indifference to screaming. After defeats, he blamed the squad publicly.
By the end, the dressing room split three ways: loyalists, resentful players, and a numb majority who'd stopped caring. He won nothing and left spurs worse than he found them.
The problem wasn't tactics. It was culture. Mourinho's blind spot has always been the belief that is personality, his aura, his force of will, can override an institution's value.
At spurs, the club's fragile identity collapsed around him. At Manchester United, part of his diagnosis were right, but the medicine was wrong.
Real Madrid isn't spurs, united, Chelsea, or Roma. It has its own culture, it's own hierarchy of pride and its own definition of what winning means.
The last time Mourinho was here, he left relationship so damaged that even he called the period almost violent earlier this year.
One La Liga title and a Copa del Rey came at the cost of open wounds that never fully healed. The fans are still divided.
But Perez has already told them: we have enemies, and I will fight.
Now he'll have to prove it. Not with speeches, but by earning trust. By managing the culture instead of bulldozing it. By remembering that Real Madrid is bigger than any one person.
Yesterday's press conference may have marked the start of something. Whether it's a renaissance or a relapse comes down to one thing: has Mourinho learned anything in the last decade?
He says he has. Madrid is about to find out.
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