Real Madrid enter crucial month as Mourinho races to prepare for new season

Real Madrid enter crucial month as Mourinho races to prepare for new seasonThis summer, Real Madrid have embarked on another new project, which will be overseen by the experienced coach Jose Mourinho, and which will be aimed at bringing the Merengue team back to winning ways, after having gone the last two seasons without any major title.

>The Portuguese coach has been training his new team for more than a week now, but in the coming days, he will see his work getting increasingly hectic.

>As Diario AS has noted, this is particularly the case as he has only one month left till the start of the 2026-27 season, and he will have to ensure the team is fully prepared for this upcoming season.

>The main challenge for Mourinho will be the lack of availability of several key first team players, who participated in the World Cup and thus started their holidays late. Of these players, Arda Guler and Federico Valverde have already reported for training, while Antonio Rudiger will also join the team soon.

>Another player who will be joining the Portuguese manager soon will be the full-back Denzel Dumfries, and his arrival will be particularly exciting for the Merengue team as he will be the first of the four new signings to join the club. His arrival will make it easier for Mourinho to make a decision about a key position of the team, the right flank, where Dumfries and Trent Alexander-Arnold will be competing for a starting spot.

>Some training and friendly games have already been scheduled, and are set to start in the coming few days. The first of these, against Alcorcon, is scheduled for this Friday. Then another training game is scheduled against Leganes on 28th July, which will be followed by friendly games against Fiorentina and Deportivo Coruna. Another friendly in Northern Europe can also be finalized in the coming few days.

>Jose Mourinho will be without players like Marc Cucurella, Kylian Mbappe, Jude Bellingham, Ibrahima Konate, and Aurelien Tchouameni for most of these games, and will have these players for very few days before the start of the next season.

>Thus, things will not be easy for the new Real Madrid coach, and the one month remaining before the start of the next season is going to be crucial for him going forward.