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20th Mar 2019

Jose Mourinho gives timeline for return to management

Where will he end up?

Darragh Murphy

Jose Mourinho believes six months out of management is enough.

Mourinho has been without a job since he was sacked by Manchester United before Christmas and he has now given a timeline for his return to the dugout.

The former two-time Chelsea manager has revealed that he has turned down approaches from a number of clubs but wants to be back in a job in three months so that he has a full pre-season to prepare.

“What I have in mind is that I would like to be back in the summer, in June, for a new club, for a new pre-season,” Mourinho beINSPORTS.

“I know exactly what I don’t want – that’s the reason I’ve had to say no already to three or four different offers.

“And I know what I want in terms of, not a specific club, but the nature of the job, the dimension of the job. I know what I want and I’m going to be waiting for that.”

While Mourinho has been linked with the Portugal job, the 56-year-old doesn’t feel like a national team position would suit him right now.

“A national team job is a very specific job – I like daily football, daily work, I like many competitions, I like many matches and I want to stay at football club level,” he continued.

“When you are working every day in football with six press conferences per week, with three matches per week, with pre-match analysed, with post-match analysed, with all the problems you have day by day, sometimes you have no time to take care of yourself and now I’m having this month where I think I’m going to be back even better prepared.

“At this moment I am two and half months without work and I am ‘working’ preparing myself for the next one.

“It’s not like I am on holiday, it’s not like I am bored – I am preparing myself for the next one.”