“Am not like Pochettino” – Jose Mourinho has told Chelsea 3 things he wants wants from his next job amid Mauricio Pochettino pressure
Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho stated that he is searching for a new team and is looking for one with a “professional structure” where he can take on the job of “head coach.”
Following his departure from Roma in January, Mourinho has not had a job. In light of Mauricio Pochettino’s difficulties this season, there have been calls for him to take over Chelsea for a third time. He has coached the team twice already.
Speaking in an interview with the Telegraph , Mourinho has now outlined what he is looking for in his next role. The 61-year-old has no intention to call it a day on his career yet.
“My dream job description – because sometimes you have a job title and another thing is the job description – is ‘head coach’,” he said. “That’s my dream. To be the coach. To be the guy who works with the team, focus on developing players, preparing matches.
“Fortunately, I had that in my career. Unfortunately, I had other situations when I had to be much more than that. When you are much more than that you are not as good a coach as you can be.
“The club puts you in a position where I don’t want to be. Do you think after the Europa League final that we lost, in the circumstances that we lost, I was happy with all the emotion that I felt? Do you think I was happy to be the face of the club that went to the press conference to speak about these events? No, I hated to go.
“If people fear something [about Mourinho], don’t fear. Give me a professional structure where I am only the head coach because this is what I am good at.
“People say I’m good at communication. Many, many times you say the wrong things. Especially when you communicate three or four times a week. A club’s structure pushes me in the wrong direction.”
During the interview, two clubs – West Ham and Brighton, who could potentially be on the lookout for a new manager for two different reasons, were mentioned. So would Mourinho take either job if offered?
“What could really make a difference is how much the club wants me,” he said. “How much the club needs a person and a coach of my profile. And how much feeling, empathy I could feel with the structure.”
Mourinho continues: “The only thing I want is that the targets and the objectives have to be established by everyone in a fair way. I cannot go to a club where, because of my history, the objective is to win the title. No. The only thing I want is that it has to be fair.
“Do you think if I was at a big Premier League club and we were sixth, seventh, eighth, in the table, I still have a job? What I am saying is people [should] look at me the way they look at others.
“What is important for me is if the club has objectives and for me to be able to say I am ready to fight for these. I don’t want to say realistic, but [at least] semi-realistic. Because when I went to Roma nobody was dreaming about European Cup finals and we did it.
“It’s not possible I go to a club almost relegated and the objective is to win the Champions League. It’s good but it is not fair.”