Former Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur coach Jose Mourinho is reportedly eyeing a return to the Premier League, the place he claims to have ‘unfinished enterprise.’
In keeping with a report in The Guardian, the Portuguese coach is targetting the managerial function at Newcastle United, if present incumbent Eddie Howe leaves the Tyneside membership.
The British publication reviews that Mourinho has been involved with Newcastle chairman Yasir al-Rumayyan ever since assembly him in a social capability on the Saudi Arabian F1 Grand Prix in March, and his representatives are reaching out to the membership and intermediaries to be stored within the loop a couple of potential opening on the membership.
Howe is the primary supervisor underneath Newcastle’s new Saudi Arabia-backed possession, and inside his first season, guided the membership to qualification to the Champions League. However after ending seventh within the Premier League final yr, and failing to impress a lot this season the place they stand in eleventh place after 10 video games, stress is mounting on the British coach.
Mourinho is presently the coach of Turkish aspect Fenerbahce. The 61-year-old had joined Roma within the Serie A after departing from England, and was sacked by the crew within the Italian capital final yr earlier than shifting to Turkey at the beginning of this season.
Outcomes haven’t been nice, Fenerbahce is presently positioned third within the league, already 5 factors behind leaders and rivals Galatasaray. Earlier this yr, additionally they didn’t qualify for the Champions League.
As a substitute, Mourinho has been on the attraction offensive in entrance of the microphone, together with his feedback usually doing the rounds on social media and within the information. His feedback on Manchester United forward of his aspect’s Europa League conflict together with his former crew discovered headlines within the UK and overseas, and his newest outburst relating to VAR and officiating within the Turkish league after their 3-2 win over Trabzonspor on Sunday have been additionally hyper-critical of soccer within the nation on the whole.
“No person overseas desires to look at the Turkish league,” he was quoted as saying by The Guardian. “Who desires to look at this Turkish league overseas? They’ve the Premier League, they’ve the French league, they’ve the German league, they’ve the Portuguese league, they’ve the Dutch league. Why ought to they see this? … It’s too gray, it’s too darkish, smells unhealthy. However that’s my job, and I’ll give every thing to my job, to my membership.”