Mourinho Hasn’t Gotten Over Tumultuous Roma Exit Yet

The Cult of Calcio

·01 de janeiro de 2025

Mourinho Hasn’t Gotten Over Tumultuous Roma Exit Yet

José Mourinho is happy with how things are going at Fenerbahce but still holds a grudge for how his Roma exit went down. He gave an interview to Corriere dello Sport.

“I went to Turkey because I love football and my job. I didn’t want to wait for the ideal opportunity or take a sabbatical. They showed they wanted me badly.”

The Special One regrets not stepping down.

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“I should have left the Giallorossi after the final in Budapest, but not for the mess by the referee Anthony Taylor. It was a mistake. The same goes for when I said no to Florentino Perez a few years earlier. He didn’t want me to go and told me that the best was yet to come, and I knew that, but I was eager to go back to Chelsea after three years in Spain.”

Mourinho nixed a plan to bid farewell to the Roma fans.

“I had bought a ticket to a match for me and my assistants. They thought I deserved to say goodbye to the supporters and vice versa. I mulled it, but then I feared I would have been accused of causing a ruckus, and I don’t ever do things like that.”

The Portuguese boss is open to future Serie A return. Furthermore, Mourinho stated that he didn’t want any Roma match after being fired.

“I reached three finals in recent years, one with Manchester United and two with them. I’m amused by the dated discourse about me. When you achieve something like that with a team that has no history in Europe, you realize to have done something special, and I’m proud of that.”