According to Cole, it is not Madrid vs Barca because Madrid cant win Barca. It is more Mourinho wits, strategies and tactics vs Barca Dominance.

"If he goes and wins the league, that is the biggest achievement from any manager at any time because that Barcelona team is something else," Cole concluded.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2011/12/29/2823118/lilles-joe-cole-chelsea-should-never-have-let-go-of-jose

Can Mourinho make it? Or is it just going to be a draft chapter where the final one will be written by somebody else?
We will revist this thread in the second quarter of the 2012.

"This project has some great years in front of it. The best is still to come and it would not be very intelligent if I have been dedicated since the first day, giving my heart to this project only to then think of leaving it halfway through," he explained.

"That is why this story is still being written, because I am where I want to be and I want to carry on."

http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2011/12/30/2824430/jose-mourinho-anyone-who-says-real-madrid-dont-play-good