LONDON: Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said on Saturday that he is looking to return to football management this summer, but it would have to be the “right project.”
The Portuguese has been out of work since he was sacked by United in December.
Mourinho previously said that he had turned down “three or four job offers” and this week said he was in the process of “preparing” for the next one.
“I would like to be back in the summer in June for a new club and a new pre-season,” he said.
“I know exactly what I don’t want. I know what I want, in terms of not the specific club but the nature of the job, the dimension of the job.”
Mourinho had been linked with a return to his former club Real Madrid before the reigning European champions decided to reappoint Zinedine Zidane.
Mourinho, who also managed FC Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan, said he misses “nothing at all” but that he was “not on holiday or bored with nothing to do.”
“I am working, preparing myself for the next one,” he added.
However, he did rule out taking a job with a national team.
Asked if he would be managing at the Qatar World Cup in 2022, he said: “I don’t think so. I like daily football, daily work, many competitions. I like matches and I want to stay in football club level.”
Mourinho has won two Champions League titles and eight league titles in a career that has spanned four countries and 17 years.
Jose Mourinho ‘preparing’ for June management return
Jose Mourinho ‘preparing’ for June management return
Bottom club Wolves shock high-flying Aston Villa at Molineux
- Both sides struggled in a dour first half but Wolves seized the initiative 16 minutes into the second period when Gomes gave it a surprise lead
WOLVERHAMPTON, England: João Gomes scored his first Premier League goal of the season and Rodrigo Gomes added a second in stoppage time to give bottom club Wolverhampton a shock 2-0 win over high-flying Aston Villa on Friday.
It was only the second win in the league for a club that remains six points adrift at the bottom of the table and is almost certain to be relegated.
The result was a bitter blow to Villa’s Champions League aspirations and a slap in the face for coach Unai Emery, who was bidding to record his 100th victory in charge of the Birmingham club.
Both sides struggled in a dour first half but Wolves seized the initiative 16 minutes into the second period when Gomes gave it a surprise lead.
Adam Armstrong deftly cushioned a long pass right into the path of the onrushing Gomes and his superbly struck shot gave Emiliano Martínez no chance.
Villa pushed forward as the game went on and it was caught out in stoppage time when Wolves doubled its lead on the break, Rodrigo Gomes doing the damage.
Villa has won only one of its last five league games. The result leaves it 10 points behind leader Arsenal and five behind second-placed Manchester City, having played a game more than both.
Its next two matches are against the clubs immediately below it in the table, Chelsea and Manchester United.
