MANCHESTER United’s Jose Mourinho can collect the one European trophy he lacks when his side faces Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup today in his first competitive meeting with the Spanish giant since an acrimonious split in 2013.

Mourinho Womens Shoes Nike Free 3.0 V5 Black Green , whose team won the Europa League last season to salvage an otherwise disappointing first campaign under the Portuguese, led Real to the Liga title with a record 100 points and won a Copa del Rey in an eventful stay between 2010 and 2013.

His achievements at the Santiago Bernabeu were overshadowed, however, by his falling out with key dressing room figures such as Sergio Ramos and Iker Casillas as well as confrontations with referees and opponents plus a failure to win the UEFA Champions League, as Real lost in the semifinals each year.

Mourinho’s legacy has been upstaged by the Spanish club’s three UCL triumphs in the four years since his departure Women's Shoes Nike Free 3.0 V5 Mint Gray , although in a recent interview the Portuguese claimed he had “to beg” Real’s board to let him leave for Chelsea.

UCL holder Real will be without talisman and former United forward Cristiano Ronaldo in Skopje, Macedonia, as the Portugal international was allowed to report late for preseason training after he played in the Confederations Cup.

Zinedine Zidane’s side beat Sevilla 3-2 in extra-time last year to win the showcase match and the French coach is targeting a fourth European trophy in less than two years in charge of Real in Skopje, which would match Mourinho’s tally of continental titles.

United, meanwhile Women's Nike Free TR 5.0 Flyknit Training Shoes Black White , will be missing central defenders Eric Bailly and Phil Jones due to suspension, opening up a place in the starting lineup for new recruit Victor Lindelof.

Tony Blair and Andrew Adonis, his former Downing Street policy chief, have made separate if coordinated proposals for new controls on UK migration as a viable route back from Brexit and for the UK’s continued membership of the EU single market.

To some, the proposals appear like a pro-remain version of Boris Johnson’s love of having and eating cakes – another British offer to remain in the single market so long as Britain can destroy it. To others Women's Nike Free 4.0 Flyknit Shoes Black Ice Blue , it is an attempt to inject some political and strategic realism into the remain position.

The ideas lean heavily on the presumption that there is an untapped mood in France and Germany to help the British pro-Europeans. The Blair pamphlet makes references to a smattering of largely middle-ranking former ministers and a thinktank to suggest there is a mood for reform.

Lord Adonis suggests that French and German politicians might support free movement reform and make a direct appeal to the British people over the heads of the UK government next summer as the moment of Brexit arrives, thereby making a referendum on the terms feasible.

A similar claim about a hidden flexibility has been made for more than a year by Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister who does have good connections with senior liberal politicians on the continent. Blair has good European contacts of his own: for instance, he visited the commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and met Sandro Gozi, the influential Italian European minister Men's Women's Nike Free 4.0 Flyknit Shoes Black White , in London last week.

Blair specifically suggests Britain can make common cause with Emmanuel Macron, the mercurial French president who, sensing the political danger of unfettered free movement, has issued a démarche against wage undercutting permitted by the 1996 EU posted workers directive – an initiative that has led him over the past months into direct and personal conflict with the Polish government.

In Germany, it is said that if Angela Merkel is re-elected on 24 September Women's Nike Free 4.0 Flyknit Shoes Pink Purple White , she may, especially if in a coalition with Free Democrats, show a new flexibility and might support the idea of an emergency brake on migration – an idea she rejected in her largely fruitless discussions with David Cameron before the referendum.

The Blair-Adonis axis argues argue that it is clear next year’s Italian elections may well turn on the issue of migration. There are changes to migration that Europe could either adopt, or allow the UK to adopt, that do not breach the fundamental principle of free movement Women's Nike Free 4.0 Flyknit Shoes White Gray , one of the pillars of the EU. This makes a new settlement possible.

At a minimum, Blair is right to say the UK could have done more to control migration within the EU framework than it has. He is also right to say the single greatest ingredient of modern politics is volatility and soothsaying is the most discredited profession.

But scanning French, German or indeed European commission politics, there is precious little sign that the EU is willing to shift on the principle of free movement, even in a concession to pro-Europeans such as Blair. The intellectual energy in Europe is devoted to greater future political and economic integration Nike Free 4.0 Flyknit Men's Shoes Multi Black , as evidenced by Macron’s strongly pro-European speech to the Greeks alongside the Parthenon last week.

With the exception of the posted workers directive, the bulk of the EU’s concern about migration concerns people from abroad, from Libya and Turkey, but not about internal free movement within the EU.

The remarkable aspect of the German election is the extent to which migration has not been the issue to damage Merkel. Germans seem reluctantly willing to accept 2015 was a one-off response to a humanitarian disaster and Merkel does not offer a policy of open borders. The German elections are focused on security, Turkey Nike Free 4.0 Flyknit Men's Shoes Red Orange , childcare and the necessity of Europe in the age of Donald Trump – not on keeping eastern Europeans out of the country.

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