Absolutely. Jose Mourinho will beats Barcelona to La Liga title this coming new season. He may not be a practitioner of beautiful game (i.e barcelona and arsenal) but his managerial statistics is amazing.
For more details,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mourinho
Real Madrid is definitely "underdog" in comparison with Barcelona. After all, Barcelona has 7 first team players in Spain national team who won World Cup.
I will rooting for the "underdog"