aDieu ! Mourinho has burned his final bridge in Madrid
By mid-afternoon over 32,000 have responded and 82 per cent have voted that he will be off as soon as the final whistle is blown on the last match at home to Osasuna on June 1.
Immediately after Madrid’s semi-final failure Cristiano Ronaldo was asked about his manager's future and replied: 'It is not important to me. What matters to me is my future and the club’s. The decisions he takes are his and his family’s and they have to be respected.'
Which way now? Jose Mourinho appears to be sliding towards the Real Madrid exit at the end of the season
As Ronaldo was distancing himself from his coach on Tuesday night, Mourinho was distancing himself from almost everyone at Madrid.
'Here there are people that hate me, many of them are in this room', he said in his press conference.
The failure to reach the Wembley European Cup final brought front page headlines.
They ranged from 'Adios Big Ears' a reference to the trophy Madrid will not be touching at the end of this month to 'Failure Accomplished'.
But perhaps the most damning was from Diario AS. They carried a picture of Sergio Ramos and Iker Casillas embracing beneath the banner headline 'Miracle on Miracle off...' below were the words 'And Mourinho is navel gazing'.
His comment that 'there are clubs in England that want me; one especially' was seen as self indulgent.
In the dark: Mourinho could be on his way back to Chelsea this summer when Rafa Benitez leaves the Bridge
Outdone: Mourinho (right) watched Real Madrid crash out of the Champions League to Borussia Dortmund
If Mourinho does win the Copa del Rey on May 17 he will leave Real Madrid having won one league title and two Spanish Cups and taken Madrid to three consecutive Champions League semi-finals in three years.
By any other coach’s standards – and bearing in mind Real Madrid’s pre-Mourinho Champions League form was so bad they weren’t even group seeds – his numbers are acceptable. The failure lies not in what has or has not been won, but in his inability to stay the course.
Madrid was always going to be a long-term job. He inherited an expensively assembled squad but it was one containing many players whose signings he would never have sanctioned. Much was made of the entire Dortmund team costing less than Kaka but Mourinho would never have signed the Brazilian.
Embrace: The front page of AS showed Sergio Ramos and Iker Casillas (left) as Marca (right) bid him farewell
Game over: Sport describes the Champions League defeat as a 'failure' and Mundo says goodbye to the boss
Gonzalo Higuaín and Karim Benzema were not his style of striker. In a fourth summer at the club he might have been able to sign the centre-forward he needed. Now it seems now he’ll be sharing a taxi to Madrid airport with Falcao who is represented by Mourinho’s agent Jorge Mendes and on his way out of Atletico Madrid.
After falling at the semi-finals for three straight seasons Madrid could be just two more signings away from going one better next time.
Bridge too far: Cristiano Ronaldo could not breach the Dortmund defence to score the vital third goal
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