Someone like Jose Mourinho does not stay unemployed for long.
The former Chelsea manager, even with all his poison and horrible characteristics, is still a world class manager who has achieved success at every single club he has managed at.
So even as he left Chelsea in December with the club closer to the bottom three than the top four, the former Real Madrid manager was being linked with various new roles in football.
The one that he has desired most throughout his career of course is the Manchester United job, and in recent days speculation has seemed to indicate that the former Inter Milan coach will replace Louis van Gaal this summer.
One Spanish newspaper even thinks they have the date he will be unveiled, but today Mourinho has spoken out for the first time about a possible move to Old Trafford at season’s end, and has not denied that he would be willing to take over at Old Trafford this summer.
Quoted in today’s Mail on Sunday, in advance of today’s Chelsea-Manchester United clash, Mourinho admits he will be back in football in the near future.
“I always say I need competition – I need competition every week. For sure I’ll be back soon.
Pressure has increased on Louis van Gaal in recent weeks despite a seeming upswing in Manchester United’s form as well as a newly resurgent Wayne Rooney leading the line. However, the vultures are circling the Dutchman and it seems all but certain that he will be replaced this summer.
Mourinho admits that life as an unemployed football manager is frustrating him, and he is anxious to return to work as quickly as possible as he feels incomplete without it.
“No, I am not enjoying it. I can have my family, I can have my friends, I can have my quiet life, which I also like, and I can have my football.
“I can have everything together and I don’t need to give up on one of them.
“To be fully happy I need everything, so I go back to football. I think it’s my natural habitat. I have worked since I can remember, and as a manager since 2000.”
hearing rumblings that Mourinho is going to Manchester United. yes please.
— Samantha Lewis (@battledinosaur) February 5, 2016
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Manchester United fans are understood to have mixed feelings about the possibility of the former Chelsea man taking over in the dugout at Old Trafford. His style of play, as well as his tendency to fall out with players and staff, is understood to be causing unease among the top ranks of the Manchester United executive as well as die-hard supporters.
However, Mourinho explains that if Manchester is where his next job takes him, he will try to be humble.
‘I have always to learn. Even in football, which is an area in which I feel I am an expert, I am never perfect and I will always learn.
‘Sometimes in my work, and also in private life, maybe people think I am not humble. But I am so humble, and I am always ready to learn from people who know more than me.”
Humble and Jose in the same sentence, surely some mistake.
