After being fired after more than two years as manager of Manchester United, Jose Mourinho refused to publicly criticize the team. What he said at the time speaks loudly now.
Mourinho won the Europa League and the League Cup while at United. He also famously said that finishing second in the Premier League in 2018 was “one of his best achievements,” even though he had problems with Ed Woodward, who was Executive Vice Chairman at the time.
The Daily Mail now says that Mourinho wants to make a big comeback to Old Trafford because he thinks he has “unfinished business.” The story says that after being fired by Roma, he “has made it his mission” to take charge again.
As a new minority partner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has agreed to take care of football operations after buying a 25% stake in the club. Mourinho is said to want to work with Richard. The 61-year-old didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings when he was fired, which could meаn he always had the goal of coming back one day like he did at Chelsea.
He told Sky Sports News after being fired, “I keep the good things and I don’t talk about anything that happened in the club.” “I could sаy not as good, but that’s not who I am.” I will live on without Manchester United, and they will live on without me.
That’s me and how I’ve always been: it’s over. When managers leave a club and then come back and talk about what happened and who is to blame, I always thought they were bad managers. I’m not that person.
Ratcliffe, on the other hand, has said bad things about how Mourinho treated Luke Shaw while he was at Old Trafford. The 61-year-old criticized the left back’s weight and tactics.
He said that the way Mourinho treated Shaw “destroyed” him back in 2018. “Things aren’t getting better at United.” “Things have gone from bad to terrible,” he told the Telegraph at the time.
“Talk about seeing the glass as half-empty. Among the six teams at the top of the table—this is from last season, anyway—Jürgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, and Mauricio Pochettino are three who are led by “glass-half-full” types.
They get their teams fired up and ready to go. Then you see Mourinho. He’s really sad. Last season, he killed Luke Shaw. And then there was [Arsene] Wenger, who was sad, and [Antonio] Conte, who was down.”