'Modric 2.0': Jose Mourinho's new favourite and his role at Real Madrid

Real Madrid are already preparing for the 2026-27 play and gained immoderate 'reinforcements' this week during pre-season from players who took portion successful the World Cup. One of them looks acceptable to go Jose Mourinho's 'Luka Modric 2.0', arsenic Marca have suggested.

That subordinate is Bernardo Silva, a escaped signing pursuing his exit from Manchester City. A chap countryman of the caller Real Madrid boss, the 31-year-old midfielder has breached with the Spanish club's accustomed recruitment policy, which astir ever favours players nether 30 and, erstwhile they are older, tends to connection lone one-year deals.

The Portuguese has alternatively been fixed a declaration moving until the mediate of 2028.

Beyond the information helium arrived without a fee, the crushed down this objection was the 'Special One's' decisive relation successful the signing.

The manager believes the subordinate could go a caller Modric, contempt differences successful their playing roles, according to the publication. The Croatian was a idiosyncratic petition from Mourinho backmost successful 2012, erstwhile helium asked Real Madrid to motion him from Tottenham Hotspur, a script akin to the 1 involving Silva.

Bernardo had been adjacent to agreeing a determination to Atletico Madrid and aboriginal edged person to Barcelona, but yet his tendency to enactment nether Mourinho tipped the balance.

He volition inactive person to gain his place, but his relation looks acceptable to beryllium decisive successful calming a dressing country that has lacked leadership.

Bernardo Silva to supply enactment for Mourinho's Real Madrid

Marca pointed to 2 reasons down Mourinho's insistence connected signing Bernardo Silva: the contiguous prime helium tin offer, and his worth arsenic a 'unifying element' wrong the dressing room.

Real Madrid's enactment radical has thinned retired considerably successful caller years, pursuing the departures of Karim Benzema successful 2023, past Toni Kroos, Nacho Fernandez and, much recently, Daniel Carvajal.

Bernardo held a akin enactment relation astatine Manchester City, wherever helium served arsenic skipper astatine antithetic points from 2017 onwards, earlier becoming the club's undisputed armband holder passim past season.

In England, too, the Portuguese was seen arsenic a decisive fig connected the pitch. He is simply a versatile player, susceptible of operating arsenic a close winger, a fig 10 oregon arsenic a deeper midfielder. He is adjacent expected to signifier the aforesaid cardinal midfield concern with Rodri, the apt adjacent Real Madrid signing.

Mourinho eyeing a squad built connected transitions and speedy attacks

Mourinho wants a squad built astir transitions and speedy attacks, and Bernardo is expected to play an important relation successful directing counter-attacks, portion besides bringing patience and prime passing erstwhile required.

The Special One's new-look Real Madrid stay successful pre-season and volition play friendlies against Ferencvaros, Deportivo de La Coruna and Schalke 04 earlier their LaLiga opener connected 22 August, distant astatine Espanyol.

Looking to extremity their trophy drought since the extremity of 2024, the squad volition vie successful the home league, the Copa del Rey, the Supercopa de Espana and the Champions League this season.