🏆 36 Spanish league titles – an absolute league record
📅 Last title – 2023/24 (two years without a championship)
👔 Coach – José Mourinho, returns to the club after 13 years
💰 Top 3 most expensive players – Kylian Mbappe (~€200 million), Jude Bellingham (~€160 million), Vinicius Junior (~€140 million)
📥📤 Veteran defenders – Dani Carvajal, David Alaba, Dani Ceballos – have left. Instead, Mourinho has completely revamped the defense: Marc Cucurella (Chelsea), Ibrahima Konate (Liverpool) and Denzel Dumfries (Inter) – all three transfers have already been officially closed.
👔 Mourinho returns to pragmatic, reactive football – low block, compactness without the ball and a focus on fast counterattacks through Mbappe and Vinicius.
📊 Last season, the “creamy” finished second, 8 points behind Barcelona – and after a change of coach, they are looking to regain their throne.
