Jose Mourinho laughs off rumors about Manchester United link

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho laughed at suggestions that he preferred to join United over Chelsea if he was given the chance. In Spanish journalist Diego Torres’s book, Prepare to Lose: The Mourinho Era, Mourinho is said to have sobbed and broken down when informed that Ferguson had chosen Moyes to take over Manchester United.

Mourinho laughed out loud and said, “I think the person who wrote that book shouldn’t write books. He should write books for kids using his imagination.”

“I am where I want to be. I want to go nowhere else. I have the job I want to have, I don’t have another job. When I left Porto I wanted to come to England because at that time there was no Chelsea, I had no emotional connections with any club. When I left Chelsea I wanted only Italy or Spain, not another English club.”

“After Real Madrid I wanted England and if possible, Chelsea. It’s the only time I’ve said this country and this specific club. If not Chelsea then I’d have been in England at another club, but when the door at my club opened for me, I had the job I wanted to have.”

After Manchester United clashed with Real Madrid in the Champions League, a game which Ronaldo made a return to Old Trafford and sealed the win for Madrid, speculation arose about Sir Alex Ferguson retiring and Jose Mourinho being appointed as the ‘Chosen One’ . However as we all know, David Moyes was appointed and Jose joined Chelsea after Rafael Benitez and the club went separate ways. The rest is history as the clubs went on different paths.

“I knew a couple of weeks before the announcement because my friend (Ferguson) was very nice to me and trusted me completely. He told me something really important before the press, he didn’t want me to read it in the press. He told me you are one of my best players in football, I want you to know it from me. He was so nice to me, he gave me such a big reasonability to keep that.”

“From me never, but I was afraid that somebody might leak it and the boss could think it came from me, so I was a little under pressure. In the same way he knew from me that I was coming back to Chelsea. It’s just things between friends.I wasn’t committed to Chelsea at the time, but I wanted to come and Chelsea had expressed the desire for me to come back.”

This just rubs salt into the wounds of many Manchester United fans who believed that Jose Mourinho did want to join the club. Jose Mourinho and his Chelsea meanwhile, march on to Sunday where they welcome the Red Devils home, a place where Mourinho’s Chelsea hasn’t lost in 70 consecutive domestic games. Home sweet home indeed.