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  • Mourinho reveals league he will take his next job

    Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has revealed his interest in potentially resuming his managerial career in the Bundesliga.

    The 56-year-old has been out of work since being sacked by Manchester United in December following two-and-a-half seasons at Old Trafford.

    Mourinho, who was linked with a return to Real Madrid prior to the reappointment of Zinedine Zidane, has already indicated plans to return to the game in the summer ahead of the 2019/20 campaign.

    “The Bundesliga provides an exciting competition for me, especially by the teams in mid-table, which are constantly improving and thus create an overall nice competition,” Mourinho told German magazine SPORTbild.
    “Full stadiums, great organisation, good tactical approaches in many teams – I think the Bundesliga is really interesting.”
  • EPL teams won’t make Champions League final – Mourinho

    EPL teams won’t make Champions League final – Mourinho

    Former Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho predicts all four Premier League clubs to be knocked out of the UEFA Champions League.

    Manchester United are scheduled to play Barcelona in the quarter-finals and the winner will face either Liverpool or Porto.

    On the other side of the draw, Tottenham take on Manchester City in an all-English tie and the winner will play against either Juventus or Ajax in the semi-finals.

    “Juventus and Barcelona are the two great candidates for the competition and will reach the final,” Mourinho, who was sacked by United in December, told AFP.

    “All they talk about is [Cristiano] Ronaldo and [Lionel] Messi but I prefer to talk about Juve and Barcelona. I will always be a football coach and football continues to be a team sport.

    “Juventus and Barcelona have experience, talent and a special player each. There are these special players, the teams end up becoming the best.”

  • Mourinho killed me, says Mikel Obi

    Mourinho killed me, says Mikel Obi

    Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel, has revealed that former Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho “killed” him during his time at Chelsea.

    Mikel Obi said Mourinho killed him because he got sent off on his first game for the Blues.

    According to him, he was quite slow to the pace expected of him by Mourinho in his early days at Stamford Bridge.

    The 31-year-old midfielder spent 11 years at Chelsea, winning the Champions League, two Premier League titles and three FA Cups before joining Chinese side, Tianjin Teda, in 2017.

    “Got sent off on my first game. Mourinho killed me. The speed of the game took me a while to understand it,” Mikel told BBC World Service’s Sportsworld.

    “I was a very naughty boy. I’ll get up to speed but I was late to trainings many times. I was wearing the wrong dress codes.

    “Mourinho was very firm with me because he wanted me to learn and learn very fast because he brought me in.

    “With Mourinho, there are no excuses. I was put in a very naughty corner a few times. It took me a while to understand where I am and I had to learn very fast.”

  • I want new job by June – Mourinho

    I want new job by June – Mourinho

    Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho says he is targeting a return to club management and wants to secure a position by the summer.

    The 56-year-old has been out of management since being sacked by United in December 2018.

    He says he has turned down up to four different job offers during that period as he wants a new position with a specific set of circumstances.

    “What I have in mind is that I would like to be back in the summer, in June, for a new club, for a new pre-season,” he told BeIN SPORTS.

    “I know exactly what I don’t want. That’s the reason why I had to say already to three or four different offers. I had to say no.

    “And I know what I want, in terms of not a specific club but the nature of the job, the dimension of the job, I know what I want.”

    The Portuguese says he enjoying his break from the day-to-day rigours of club management but insists he will be more prepared than ever before when he returns to the dugout.

    “I miss nothing at all, really.” he said. “Because in this moment I am two and a half months without work and I am ‘working’, preparing myself further for the next one. It’s not like I am on holiday.

    “It’s not like I’m bored with nothing to do. I’m preparing myself for the next one, and that is something that when you are working every day in football with six press conference per week, with three matches per week, with pre-match analysis, with post-match analysis, with all the problems you have day by day – sometimes you have no time to take care about yourself.

    “Now I am having this month where I think I’m going to be back even better prepared.”

    The former Manchester United, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Porto and Real Madrid boss says he is unlikely to move into international football because he prefers the more frequent coaching interaction of the club game.

  • Mourinho on standby as Real Madrid set for huge changes

    Mourinho on standby as Real Madrid set for huge changes

    Revolution is in the air at Real Madrid after their Champions League empire was razed to the ground with an astounding 4-1 loss at home to Ajax Amsterdam on Tuesday.

    The changes will involve a huge clear out of players as well as a change of manager.

    Coach Santiago Solari may have a contract until 2021 but no one expects him to remain beyond the close of the season after overseeing Tuesday’s catastrophic last-16 second leg defeat.

    The defeat ended the capital club’s 1,012 day reign as kings of Europe.

    It also effectively ended Madrid’s season, after successive defeats to Barcelona which sent them out of the Copa del Rey and put them 12 points adrift of Barca in the title race.

    Madrid are now five points further adrift than when Solari succeeded Julen Lopetegui in October.

    Jose Mourinho is already being touted as the man best suited to lead the transformation of a squad that has won it all but turned stale.

    The former Manchester United boss won a La Liga title with 100 points but left a legacy of division in his three years at Madrid.

    The Portuguese is out of work after being sacked by Manchester United in December.

    Despite meeting another dire end to his penultimate job with Chelsea, Madrid-based newspaper, Marca, appears to be beating the drum for his return.

    The paper urged president Florentino Perez to bring him back to the Santiago Bernabeu.

    “Only one positive conclusion can be extracted from the wreckage of a dark night: the best coach in the world, Jose Mourinho, has time to work,” said the newspaper.

    “Mourinho’s advantage is he is free and is waiting for the call. Bring him, Florentino bring him now.”

    Overhauling a squad with many underperforming players already over the age of 30 or approaching it and on inflated wages will be a more complicated process for Madrid.

    Gareth Bale, who hit the post against Ajax and ended the game hobbling with an ankle injury, looks to be at the end of his tether in Spain.

    Isco and Marcelo also look certain to go after dropping out of the side in recent months.

    Real, meanwhile, need a new galvanising figure to restore their attacking power after failing to address the loss of Cristiano Ronaldo and the 50 goals he would routinely score per season.

    Defender Nacho, however, said he did not feel this was the end of an era for his team, who until Tuesday had a stranglehold on Europe’s biggest prize.

    “I don’t think we have completed our cycle, this squad is still very good,” he said.

    “Some will say that we need new players and others have left but this squad had the ability to fight for trophies. This season has been a rollercoaster for us.

    “It was a very tough night but we have to stay strong.

    “We have to keep our heads up, learn from our mistakes and not forget what we have achieved as what we have done will be remembered for a very long time.’

  • Alex Ferguson, Wenger my sweet enemies – Mourinho

    Former Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho has said that legendary Red Devils boss, Alex Ferguson and ex-Arsenal coach, Arsene Wenger were his “sweet enemies”.

    According to Mourinho, it was all about confrontation of forces between himself, Ferguson and Wenger during their time in the Premier League.

    He stated this ahead of Manchester United’s Premier League clash with Liverpool on Sunday.

    “Wenger is a very intelligent person and one of the best managers in the history of football,” Mourinho was quoted by Goal as saying.

    “I arrived in England and I found ‘the Invincibles’ and I found Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson very much hurt by that Arsenal season.

    “And we were like a third force coming. Chelsea had a great desire to be champions for the first time in so many years. So, of course, it was the confrontation of forces and you can imagine that Sir Alex, Wenger and myself we were fighting for the same. We were like, I like to say in football, ‘sweet enemies’.

    “My feeling is where are the next ‘Invincibles’? Where are they? Who did it again? Who made people forget that he was the manager of the invincible team? Lots of philosophies, lots of talk, lots of PR. Football today is a lot about this, but [it is about] results, and who did better than him?”

  • Man Utd pays Jose Mourinho £19.6m after sacking

    Man Utd pays Jose Mourinho £19.6m after sacking

    Manchester United paid Jose Mourinho and his staff £19.6m in compensation following his sacking in December.

    United revealed the figures in their second quarter financial results.

    Mourinho was sacked after a run of poor results, culminating in a 3-1 defeat by Liverpool that left them 11 points off fourth place in the Premier League.

    Caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer won 10 of his first 11 games before Tuesday’s 2-0 Champions League last-16 first-leg defeat by Paris St-Germain.

    Within the financial results, which were released to the New York Stock Exchange, it said: “Exceptional items for the quarter were £19.6m, relating to compensation to the former manager and certain members of the coaching staff for loss of office.”

    Mourinho, 55, took over in May 2016 and led United to League Cup and Europa League titles. In January 2018 he signed a contract extension until 2020 with the option of an extra year.

    United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward says Solskjaer’s appointment, along with that of Sir Alex Ferguson’s former coach Mike Phelan as his assistant has “had a positive impact throughout the club”.

    Woodward says he thinks United, who have reached the fifth round of the FA Cup and are now fourth in the Premier League, above Chelsea and Arsenal, will now have “a strong finish to the season”.

  • Ex-Man Utd manager Mourinho to host own football show

    Manchester United’s ex-manager José Mourinho is to host his own show on Russian TV channel RT, formerly known as Russia Today, the station says.

    Mourinho, 56, will provide analysis of Champions League games in the fortnightly football programme.

    “I’m going to talk about football on RT. What else did you think I was going to do?” he says in a promotional video.

    Mourinho worked as a pundit for the Moscow-based RT network during the 2018 World Cup, which was held in Russia.

    He was sacked by Manchester United in December after two years at the Old Trafford club, following a disappointing period in which United said it had identified a catalogue of failings.

  • Mourinho takes a tumble at Russian ice hockey game

    Mourinho takes a tumble at Russian ice hockey game

    Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho took a nasty tumble at an ice hockey game outside Moscow on Monday, drawing gasps and laughs after performing a ceremonial puck drop.

    Mourinho, who was sacked by Manchester United in December, made the first puck drop of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) game.

    They will also be between between Avangard Omsk and SKA Petersburg, two, out of the league’s best teams, at an arena in Balashikha.

    Yet as he walked off the ice to the theme song of the “Rocky” movie series, Mourinho tripped on a red carpet and fell backwards, sparking gasps from the crowd.

    He was helped up by SKA captain Pavel Datsyuk, a Russian national team player and twice Stanley Cup winner with the Detroit Red Wings in North America’s National Hockey League (NHL).

    Avangard Omsk wrote on their Instagram page that Mourinho, 56, had not sustained any injuries in the fall.

    “Everything is fine with the coach,” the team said. “He is already back on the plane.”

  • Mourinho hits back at Gary Neville over Man Utd criticism

    Former Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has hit back at claims from Gary Neville that he tried to change United’s image during his reign at Old Trafford.

    Neville, suggested that no manager should be allowed to alter the club’s traditions of playing free-flowing football and promoting youngsters into the first team.

    However, Mourinho rejected Neville’s claims and took a swipe at the former Red Devils’ defender.

    “He doesn’t know my philosophy,” Mourinho said during his role as a pundit on beIN Sports.

    He continued: “I would love to go to a club and to be in conditions to do what Jurgen [Klopp] and Pep [Guardiola] for example they did.

    “You look at the team Liverpool started with today, how many players were there before Jurgen arrived? A couple.

    “And when Pep was not happy with the four full-backs he had and in the same summer he bought four full-backs that he liked.

    “And when he bought one goalkeeper like Claudio Bravo, and then he was not happy with Claudio Bravo, and the next season he bought Ederson.

    “And when Jurgen is in the club and wins absolutely nothing for three years and he still has the trust and still has the confidence and he still has the conditions to try to keep going and going.

    “Probably this season they have a big chance to do it, but it would be the first time they win a trophy.

    “That’s why I was saying before, in my next job, I will not be starting a conversation with a club without knowing exactly what the club wants and what the club has to give in terms of structure and objectives.”