In his first newspaper interview since he was sacked as Manchester United boss, two-time champions league winning manager Jose Mourinho has revealed his next club will one there’s structural empathy. The former Chelsea boss intends to return to the game and confirmed he has already turned down one job offer that did not match his own ambitions. “I don’t want an internal conflict,” the 56-year-old told the Telegraph. “I want internal empathy.
“I want to work in a club that understands there is a structure in place. “During my career I have been working in every possible circumstance. “The most successful situations are not because of the structure but because of the empathy in the structure.” Since leading Porto to a shock Champions League success at Porto in 2004, Mourinho has managed United, Chelsea (twice), Real Madrid and Inter. The Portuguese said his next destination could be “a club that is not ready to be a trophy-hunter immediately but with the ambition to be a trophy-hunter.”
He added: “If it is a club without ambition I wouldn’t go. I refused (the job offer) because I want high-level football and ambitions at the highest level. “That is my second item (of requirement). My first item is structural empathy. I want to work with people that I love. People I want to work with, that I am happy to work with, with whom I share the same ideas. “It was what I had at Inter. There are clubs like this. Normally, that is a very important part of a successful club.”Mourinho also appeared to aim a dig at Manchester United star Paul Pogba about his entourage. While United boss, Mourinho was understood to have blamed Mino Raiola and Pogba’s other hangers-on as the source of the pair’s conflict.
Pogba is often followed about by his brother Martias, who hit out at Mourinho after he was dumped, while he also holds a close relationship with Raiola and other members of his team. Mourinho was also critical of Pogba’s social media usage. And Mourinho has bemoaned the culture of modern footballers putting together their own staff to manage their image off the pitch.
“People who work well together. People who share the same kind of ideas,” Mourinho told the Daily Telegraph. “This is the fundamental thing. You now have a generation of players who are not just players but the whole package. “You have the player, the family, the agent, the entourage, the director of communication. You sometimes have the individual’s medical people and in an extreme situation you even have what they call their ‘personal fitness guys’. “When you have a player you have all these distractions. And if there is no empathy in the structure of the club you get into so many contradictions that it is really, really difficult to work.”