“I could approach this job in a defensive point of view by saying the last three years the best we did was fourth”, he said.
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“I think it comes in the right moment of my career, I feel very prepared, very stable and with a great motivation”.
He admitted his last season in London had been “a disaster” but defended his commitment to developing youth players, insisting he had promoted 49 young players from academies during his managerial career.
Manchester United have already signed three players in the transfer window.
On Ryan Giggs: “The job that Ryan wanted is the club that the club made a decision to give me”.
“Maybe he is not a No.9 anymore but he will never, with me, be a No.6”. I was never good with that.
‘I want everything. I want to win matches, I want to play well, I don’t want to concede goals. I was never good at that. I don’t want the players to start thinking we have to do better.
His successor, whom himself was sacked midway through last season after his Chelsea side was just a shadow of the one that won the Premier League the year before, wasn’t overawed by the significant task of getting the Red Devils back into the big time.
Manchester United’s new Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho poses with a scarf on the pitch during a photocall at Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, northern England, on July 5, 2016. I want to play well. Finish fourth. I don’t want that. I can’t go – it is my nature. But in the Premier League it doesn’t make sense at all.
“You can tell me his pass is fantastic but my pass is awesome too without pressure”. “If one day he wants to come back to the club while I am here I would never stop him”.
“But in terms of ability, charisma, personality, success he’s had, he’s won the Champions League with two different clubs (Porto and Inter Milan), he won league titles with all the teams he’s been at.his record, you can’t ignore”. He then wished Ryan Giggs good luck for his managerial career, and said that Giggs’ decision was fearless and honest.
“The second factor is when you are not playing for big targets then it is easier to bring them up”.
“It’s not my responsbility that Ryan is not in the club”.
“This challenge doesn’t make me nervous because of my history over the last 10 years”. I can imagine one of those questions is around the corner.
“Until we have the fourth, we work hard”.
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Mourinho also added that there was “always time” for former manager Sir Alex Ferguson to call to the training ground, adding that the much-revered Scotsman had given him some solid advice for the role.
