Real Madrid appointed Jose Mourinho as manager on the eve of the last World Cup.
It cost the club as much to lure him from Internazionale, as it did to bring Cristiano Ronaldo, the world's most expensive player, to the club a year earlier – about £80m, including his salary, those for his entourage and a pay-off to his predecessor, the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini.
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