Florentino Perez completed his own décima with the signing of the ex-Napoli coach, under Perez’ 12-year tenure as president of the Real Madrid, ten coaches have come and gone. After an emotional introduction at the Bernabeu where Benitez said “I’m home” and became teary-eyed, the reception has been generally positive in Madrid with sports daily AS publishing a full page picture of the glassy-eyed trainer next to a Real Madrid crest and a headline saying “It’s in his blood.”
Perez, however, has an amount of control at the club that does not sit well with many managers, as Mourinho so sensationally found out, and is notoriously short on patience.