19/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨The full translation of the paragraph where Mourinho talks about Vinicius:
🗣️Guardiola: Did Vinicius renew his contract thanks to you?
🗣️Mourinho: No, I don't take any credit for it?
🗣️Guardiola: Do you talk to Vinicius?
🗣️Mourinho: Of course I talked to him, but Vinicius is a Real Madrid fan. The only thing I said to him was: Vinny, where do you want to go? You've only been in Brazil, and you came straight to Madrid, and you don't know anything else but Madrid. You only know Madrid. When you leave, you'll find out then what Real Madrid means. Don't leave, it's not worth it, and I also think that the way he felt the group's growth and the way we were working and growing gave him a very important feeling. And now he's at a completely different level, and it warms the heart to see them working so hard; we have very high quality.
🗣️Guardiola: The clash in Benfica... was that a sensitive matter for you? It involved one of your players and Vinicius, and it was a racial issue.
🗣️Mourinho: Exactly, but the answer for me is very simple: Prestianni was my player, end of story. There's no room for discussion; as long as Prestianni is my player, even if twenty other players come, I'll stand with Prestianni. That's it, there's no story to it. And I think Vinny now knows which side I'm on, and he knows he can look to me and rely on me to stand by his side. On that day when they didn't award him an obvious penalty the size of the Santiago Bernabéu, I was already in the middle of the pitch fighting for him, and he knows I'll be with him.
🗣️Guardiola: Does he need to learn to act differently?
🗣️Mourinho: I think people are the ones who need to learn how to act with him. And I'm talking here also about the referees. Vinicius is a player like the rest; you can't award a penalty if it's for Pedri but not award it because the player is Vinicius. You can't protect Pedri and not protect Vinicius. People need to look at him away from whether he's more or less popular. On the pitch, you have to look at Vinicius like any other player. In fact, he's better than the others.
🗣️Guardiola: Don't they respect him or protect him?
🗣️Mourinho: No, in my opinion, they don't respect him. And on the stadium level, I agree with you, and I've pointed that out before: there's a difference between celebrating a goal with your fans and celebrating it in front of the opponent's fans. You can find some balance there, but what's the point of an entire stadium booing one of the world's best players without having anything against him? You go to play a friendly in A Coruña or Gelsenkirchen—I think Vinicius played in Gelsenkirchen in the past or against Deportivo—why boo him from the first touch of the ball? We need to reach a compromise, because watching this player play is a real privilege.
