Andy Gray

It was meant to be the match made in heaven but just recently Jose Mourinho and the Real Madrid hierarchy seem to have fallen out of love just a bit. The big masterplan was of course to knock Barcelona off their perch at domestic level and win the Champions League sometime over the next two or three seasons. They still have a pretty decent chance of going all the way in Europe but as regards the race to the La Liga title, it will take a minor miracle to prevent Barcelona from defending their title. In typical fashion Mourinho has very much done things his own way since arriving at the Bernabeu. He made the big call that so many other recent managers weren't prepared to make and told Raul that his time as a Galactico was up; he decided that Rafael van der Vaart wasn't his sort of player...