José Mourinho will never leave anyone indifferent. The Portuguese coach has been present on the podcast of former player Rio Ferdinand, where he spoke about his stages in the Manchester United or Chelseaas well as his departure from Roma a few weeks ago.
‘The special one’ did not come out in the best of ways from Rome: “I gave everything. I gave my heart, even some options that could considered unintelligent from a professional point of view. Normally, I am very pragmatic and professional in my decisions, and I try to control my emotions, but in this case I was not pragmatic, I was emotional and gave it my all. So in the end, when I left, I was hurt“, recognize.
The Portuguese coach rejected important offers to be in Roma, such as million-dollar proposals from Arabia or even the Portuguese National Team. The Portuguese could have coached his national team before the World Cup, although he rejected the offer to continue leading the Roman team.
Regarding his time at Manchester United, Mourinho is frustrated for not having achieved his objectives: “I wanted to clean up from the start. second season and we couldn’t for different reasons. Do you buy new furniture before cleaning the house? She was more aware of cleaning the house than buying new furniture -in reference to new signings-. I did everything I could, but I knew perfectly well the deep problems we had there.
The Portuguese fell far short of winning the Premier League, partly because Guardiola’s Manchester City He took that possibility away from him. Now, with the English team investigated for an alleged infraction of up to 115 rules of Financial Fair Play, The Portuguese jokes: “If Manchester City is caught breaching Financial Fair Play, By breaking the rules, maybe they will lose some points in the title and we can win the Premier!“he explained between laughs.