The Special One has been appointed Los Blancos boss for the second time and has rejected suggestions that he will oversee drastic squad changes at the Bernabeu - with former Premier League stars Marc Cucurella, Bernardo Silva and Ibrahima Konate all joining so far this summer.

Mourinho told the Beast Mode On podcast: "We shouldn't be speaking about Real Madrid but I can just touch on a little point. I read a few things where people were saying: 'Jose Mourinho is coming here and he's going to cut some of the top players that supposedly they had some problems during the season.' No.

"I want these players! I want the best players. Now I have to find a way to have a team and not to have problems like, eventually, I don't know, I'm just reading, that they had in previous seasons. But the best players are the players that you want. If you have problems with not very good players, that is a big problem. The big players are the big players."

Mourinho will bid to turn around Real's fortunes after two seasons without a major trophy and says it will be down to the players to restore success to the Spanish giants.

The Portuguese coach said: "When I arrive at a club - since the beginning and now it's not different - I don't like to speak much. I don't speak about myself, and I don't like to speak much. I need to know the players, and I want the players to know it's not about what people say about me, it's about what they see in me.

"We need to know each other well. And then I always say, I don't make miracles. But I can improve the guys that are improvable, the guys that want to improve. [With] some other guys, it's an impossible job. You have to just accept the way they are."