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Jose Mourinho has again laid stress on the fact that he always wanted to return to Chelsea after his stint at Real Madrid, and, Sir Alex Ferguson was completely aware of this fact. As a reason of which Sir Alex never approached Mourinho to take the managerial position at Manchester United.
Mourinho was speaking to BBC for a documentary on Sir Alex named ‘Sir Alex Ferguson: Secrets of Success’. He said, “Every manager in the world looks at Man United as a huge club but I wanted to come to Chelsea and we didn’t bring that to the table because we were so open and he knows so much about myself, he knew that for almost a season I want to leave Real Madrid and I want to come to Chelsea.”
Mourinho had a great last season with Chelsea, but this season is not going the way he would have wanted. Chelsea are currently lying on sixteenth place, with only 2 wins out of 8 Premier League matches. But, he maintained his stand that he always wanted to return and manage Chelsea. The Chelsea board have also shown their confidence in the Portuguese openly.
We picked the right man: Sir Alex Ferguson
There were not many options left for Manchester United after Sir Alex retired, as a result of which David Moyes was appointed as the club’s manager. It is widely believed that Sir Alex was the reason behind the appointment of Moyes, but SAF suggested that this was not only his decision but the club’s. He also added that appointment of Moyes was not a mistake.
“When I announced my retirement, do you honestly believe that one man could decide the future of Manchester United?” Ferguson said. “That’s absolute nonsense. There was a good process. They’re a professional football club. They know what they’re doing, the Glazers, David Gill. José was going back to Chelsea, Carlo Ancelotti was going to Real Madrid, Jürgen Klopp had signed a contract with Dortmund, Louis van Gaal was staying with Holland for the World Cup.
“The other thing was I took Pep Guardiola for dinner in New York in the September and I had no idea I was ever going to retire and I said to him give me a call and tell what you’re going to do. No answer. I don’t think we made a mistake at all. I think we chose a good football man. He did a great job at Everton, 11 years there. We picked the right man. Unfortunately, it didn’t work for David.
“We’d like to have spoken to many managers, believe me, because that’s the process. We’d like to have asked them what they felt about leaving a big club to go to a bigger club. To come to Manchester United. But it wasn’t there for us. I think we did the best under the circumstances we were in.”
Sir Alex also laid stress on the fact that he did not leave an ageing team for Moyes, he told the interviewer, “The average age of my teams consistently in the 20 years when we started winning the championship was 27 to 28. Every year.”
