LONDON (Reuters) - Real Madrid were ready to pay Jose Mourinho 12 million pounds (15.5 million dollars) in exchange for not taking over as a coach until the departure of coach Zinedine Zidane, the Sun newspaper reported on Friday.
Real Madrid's offer came in light of the poor results experienced by the team with Zidane, and the Royal desire to be Mourinho as the successor to the French coach to correct the course of the team, knowing that the team has already improved over the last five weeks in terms of performance and results.
The newspaper said that Real Madrid tried to maintain his replacement for Zidane, in light of the offers that began to heap on the Portuguese coach, from Borussia Dortmund, Milan, Italian and Lyon, while Guangzhou Evergrande was ready to pay 40 million pounds (about 52 million dollars) annually After paying taxes, in exchange for Mourinho's approval of his training.
But as soon as Mourinho received the Spurs offer, he was happy and agreed to the offer he returned to the Premier League.
The newspaper said Mourinho had since October 21 - when he met with the agent and the famous players Benny Zahavi in London - has abandoned the acceptance of any other offer and was convinced to take over Tottenham, who was suffering poor results with coach Argentine article Pocetinho.