{"id":9725,"date":"2026-10-03T06:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:15:15","slug":"its-all-a-process-marc-cucurella-defends-jose-mourinhos-rocky-real-madrid-start-after-e55m-summer-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=9725","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It\u2019s all a process&#8217; &#8211; Marc Cucurella defends Jose Mourinho\u2019s rocky Real Madrid start after \u20ac55m summer move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Spain head coach Luis de la Fuente recently noted that Cucurella looks &#8220;sensational&#8221; in a red shirt, suggesting the national team setup allows certain players to operate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/spain-luis-de-la-fuente-real-madrid-marc-cucurella\/blt54aa514033b673da\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>at a level &#8220;far superior&#8221; to their club form<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cucurella did not shy away from the discrepancy, vowing to replicate his international standards for his new club. &#8220;It&#8217;s not even been 10 games yet,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There are things to improve, of course. We basically had no pre-season, while it&#8217;s a new club for me. I have to adapt to my new team-mates and give my best so that the player you see with the national team is the same player with Real Madrid.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite his recent club woes, Cucurella&#8217;s stellar year has earned him a Ballon d&#8217;Or nomination alongside international colleague Lamine Yamal and club team-mate Kylian Mbappe. &#8220;If it was up to me to vote, I would vote for myself,&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/-real-madrid-star-marc-cucurella-ballon-d-or-choice-two-nominees-\/blte9a00916229328f6\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>he joked<\/span><\/a><span>. &#8220;But no, two of the candidates to win it are team-mates, so whoever wins it, I will be happy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain head coach Luis de la Fuente recently noted that Cucurella looks &#8220;sensational&#8221; in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laliga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2291599129.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}