“I think we can look at our club now in two perspectives”, he told the club’s in-house television station MUTV.
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Mourinho says become United boss “is a special honour in the game”. It is a club known and admired throughout the world.
“One perspective is the last three years and another perspective is the club history”.
“I think the players need to listen, I want to win, and more than else I need the supporters and the players to feel [that]. I think we can really, yes”.
“Jose is quite simply the best manager in the game today”, said United executive vice chairman Ed Woodward, after enticing the Portuguese coach on a reported annual salary of 12 million pounds ($17.5 million).
At his best, Mourinho has proved himself capable of forging a side with a “band-of-brothers” type mentality with players prepared to give everything for the cause, a feature of the teams that brought him three Premier League titles at Chelsea.
Before the new season begins, Mourinho will have to face the fall-out from his second spell at Stamford Bridge.
Carneiro is suing Mourinho individually while pursuing a constructive dismissal case against Chelsea that is set to be heard by a public tribunal in June.
The employment tribunal, which could take seven to 10 days, will be heard in public between June 6 and 24 unless a settlement is reached first.
Talks started on Tuesday but it took until Friday for the terms of the contract to be ironed out and United to announce the three-year deal, with an option for the 53-year-old to stay at the club until at least 2020.
Mourinho will hope to make significant improvements to an unbalanced and often lacklustre United squad before the new season begins in August.
As for his first signing, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is reportedly close to joining United after his time at Paris St Germain came to an end.
“A lot of the time at Real Madrid his teams outscored Barcelona”.
Former United defender Rio Ferdinand said Mourinho needed to instil a winning mentality back into the club.
Peter Kenyon was the man that brought Jose Mourinho to England.
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“Leicester have made the impossible possible and that is the biggest of wake up calls for the big clubs”.
