Jose Mourinho has revealed that he turned down the England job in 2007, earlier than Fabio Capello was appointed.
The revelation got here on Rio Ferdinand’s YouTube channel, FIVE, when Mourinho was requested to provide his opinion on the long-standing debate between Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Paul Scholes.
He responded: “I may have been the coach of their nationwide crew. I had it there on the desk.”
And when requested why he turned it down, he mentioned: “As a result of I all the time had nationwide crew jobs as one thing I wouldn’t get pleasure from. It was in 2007-08 and Mr (Fabio) Capello bought the job.”
Mourinho has been lengthy linked with the England job and is as soon as once more being linked as Gareth Southgate’s substitute after the Euros.
The Portuguese is presently with out a job after being sacked by AS Roma not too long ago. However he’s already attracting curiosity from a number of golf equipment together with Newcastle, Chelsea, in addition to Bayern Munich.
A current report from BILD claimed that Mourinho himself is eager on managing Bayern and has already began getting ready for it in case it turns into obtainable.
A transfer to Saudi Professional League has additionally been reported with the Saudis extraordinarily eager in bringing him to the nation which might give them an enormous enhance when it comes to model picture.
However Mourinho has already rejected a profitable provide from the Al-Shabab again in January, as he prefers to proceed administration in Europe.
