Jose Mourinho, in his press conference just before the match against AEK Athens, was asked about whether this team compares to the team of his first Real Madrid stint. His answer was pretty much what you would expect.
Mourinho held a pre-match press conference on Tuesday for the early kickoff for the game against AEK on the day after, and he was asked a question he knew he was eventually going to get asked.
Mourinho's answer was exactly what you would expect from someone like him to say. He said, "I don't like to make comparisons, not of players, teams, or periods. We are talking about many years ago. Honestly, I don't like it. This team has great potential, without a doubt. The other one had it too, and they won many titles. This team has not won anything yet. It is just starting out. We will see what the future holds, but I am very happy with this. All the players I have."
The media is putting too much pressure on this Real Madrid team after just a few good games
That is pretty much bang on to what he would say to any question like this. The truth is, even though he did not want to say it out loud, this team does not even compare to his first Real Madrid side, even when things were bad. The squad that team had in Mourinho's first season, when they won the Copa del Rey, was much better and deeper than the squad Mourinho has now. It had cold-blooded winners like Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio Ramos, and so many others who marked an era at the club. At this moment in time, they're not.
The level that those two and their teammates showed during their time at the club, and what they went on to achieve, even after Mourinho's time at the club had passed, was insane. This Real Madrid side, on the other hand, is nowhere near that at the moment. Maybe in a few years they would have some of the success that the first side under Mourinho did. Replicating it would be impossible.
Real Madrid have some great players at the moment, but there should be no comparison to the players that Mourinho had in his first side, simply because they were some all-time greats. The squad, on the other hand, is quite young, and it simply doesn't have the same tools that the previous one did.
Asking this question just after a few good games is also very disrespectful to the first Real Madrid team. Not only that, but the media is putting this team on a pedestal, which they probably don't want to be on. They just want to do their best and improve as a team. For that to happen, the pressure should not be as high from the media as it is at the moment.
What they will end up achieving is a different concept altogether. Asking this question just a few weeks after the media was talking about how badly Real Madrid are playing just shows how quickly things move in football and how reactionary people are.
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