For I have left the convent, I shit inside

In the end it turns out that yes, contrary to what many still refused to believe, Jose Mourinho has finally daring to get their hands on Iker Casillas, captain and icon and living legend of Real Madrid for the first time in a decade, El Santo was relegated to the substitution. Dared or dared, depends on the approach that each one chooses to adopt, of course.

Mourinho has entered such a drift that seems clouded pyromaniac fire expand to every corner of the White House. Until the last redoubt, until one that both its history and its myth seemed untouchable. The substitution of Casillas is the last (so far) a demonstration of technical power, however much they insist on believing their staunchest defenders, making every decision in your mind well before the club.

Casillas has not made ​​mistakes that justify a technical decision, an excuse that nobody believes. And even in that case, is not the same substitution relegate a player to field a goalkeeper, not the same thing to a young lay a veteran, not the same leave the bench to a newcomer a headline that carries a lifetime in the club. And of course that is not the same punishing an actor that the master of the white goal for more than a decade, the only survivor of the last two club champions, double world champion and champion of Euro as captain of the national team.

For many alleged leaks to go, no one can say for sure what's going on in the white dress. Of course, I'm of the opinion that where no pattern, no sailor sends. And also for what it says it is better to send one wrong to do so much good. What seems beyond dispute is that the decision has nothing of technique and a lot of power struggle. Their problems, in any case, be of procedure, because of course that doors outwards, Casillas has devoted long all statements to support their coach.

That yes, the audacity of Mourinho must relativize. For one approaches the recklessness, as long as you risk a reaction from the stands unparalleled to date. But looked at from the perspective time does not seem a ceremony you can not even applaud his boldness. It could be considered a courageous decision whether to seat timing Casillas was one that really was playing something (Mourinho is the first thing this league has already written off). Or if he had done at the Santiago Bernabeu, overcoming thus real and not a plebiscite as in pantomime who rode before the last derby. Not met either.

To this must be added other circumstances: the timing could not be better for him and worse for the club. Mourinho, having to face a final hearing will be several weeks out of the limelight (we will get him, but he did not have to face the press), while the institution will have to take care to minimize the fire in a Christmas that he can do very long, medially talking. An institution, by the way, in which it is catching fire is the second most powerful person as a result of the continuous offering concessions Mourinho has been its president.

Here comes the third protagonist: Florentino Perez. Just two weeks ago the greatest president of Real Madrid took a meeting with the press to deliver a speech full support to his manager, in which even accused him of being a victim of unjustified attacks. Mourinho thanked him with an act of dyes rowdy, yet the Portuguese clan subjugating one journalist. Florentino condemned the act and not merely asked for much-needed calm the club. Mourinho has paid to substitution of Casillas as Christmas gifts.

Surely the substitution of Casillas is more focused on sending a message to future costumes that will be responsible to the present. Mourinho will leave Madrid in June. That's the latest. We have seven games: eighths, quarters, semis and final of Champions. The rest could not care less. So to me it does not surprise me to adopt the pose of what remains in the convent, I shit inside.

Of course that is not likely to have any problem get worse because the internal environment not have any fear of dismissal. With a contract until 2016 at a rate of 11 million per year (plus the amount that takes his team), the problem is what Florentino, although achieving an agreed, not without scratching your pocket. This is what has been linked to it from the start and, after only fifteen months, finished kneeling .