Sunday 7 February 2016 15:54, UK
Jose Mourinho has given his first TV interview since leaving Chelsea in December - and he opened up on a wide range of topics.
After winning trophies with Porto, Real Madrid and Inter Milan, Mourinho insists he wants to remain in England with his family as he starts his search for his next role in football.
He also spoke of his frustrations working in La Liga and his attitude towards happiness, pressure and winning in football.
Plus Chelsea fans might be interested to read his words on players falling into a comfort zone if they fail to embrace new challenges…
Read on for the insights of the Special One…
Jose on… moving to London
"When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability. They are 19 years old and 16 years old, and with university and their football, they need some stability and the family needs some stability.
"We made a decision three years ago to move back to London. It's an amazing place to be and an amazing place for them to study and search their future and at the same time, for the family to be together so that was the decision. Also because I've experimented with English, Spanish and Italian football - the three top football leagues in the world.
"I always say that I need competition and I need competition every week and in Spain, I was at an amazing club but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona and after that we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1."
Jose on… if it was too easy in Spain
"It was difficult to win because two monsters are together, but it was easy to win matches. Difficult to win the league because you are competing against another team that also win and win and win like you do, so in the end I was champion in Spain with 100 points and I lost a league in Spain with 91 points.
"In England, you can win the leagues with 75 points, maybe less, so I needed competition. We decided to come to London and at the moment, I don't have a job. I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London."
Jose on… his future in football
"As a professional, I'm ready to move, especially because football in London for me in terms of clubs, I need to move."
Jose on… being happy
"I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.
"To be fully happy, I need everything so when I go back to football, I think it's my natural habit but obviously I've worked ever since I can remember. As a manager, I've worked since 2000 and I last stopped when I left Chelsea in 2007. I stopped for a few months and now is the second time I've stopped in 15 or 16 years so it's not a drama but for sure, I will go back soon."
Jose on… dealing with pressure
"Football is not pressure for me. It's not pressure, it's a privilege that sometimes I don't understand when players don't enjoy their professional life. Especially for them, and for us, it's a short period.
"For players, it's 10 or 12 years and for us, it's whatever you want - 20 or 25 or 30 years because this is the kind of job where you're paid, you're very well paid, but at the same time, you leave the dreams you had as a kid.
"When you are in football, it is because when you were a kid, you dreamed of it, so football for me is really not a pressure. Ninety minutes of matches is more pressure for the people that love us outside than for us because we really enjoy that.
"I cope because it is easy to cope with something you enjoy very much. I've never been close friends with a Formula 1 driver, but I can imagine it is the same for them. Maybe their families in the circuit and outside are under huge pressure, maybe the guys are driving at crazy speeds and taking big risks but they probably just love what they are doing. I keep thinking that in football, it is more pressure for the ones that love us than for us."
Jose on… that winning feeling
I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London.
"Sometimes I have some conflicts with people that don't share the same philosophy. You are in a sport, you are to compete, you are to win, you hate to lose and you love to win. You win once, you want to win twice and you are never tired with winning. When you are tired, go home and give your place to another one."
Jose on… new challenges
"I always think that we need new challenges, but there are different ways of getting new challenges. If, for example, you are in a club that wins, if you want to win again, you have to create instability in the winners.
"To do this, you have to make them doubt, you have to buy new players, you have to take them outside their comfort zone because if you win, there is a normal tendency to go to a comfort zone."
Jose on… getting away from it all in Arjeplog, Sweden
"My football world is one that involves a lot of people, thousands and thousands, and we travel around Europe, going to the biggest cities and to come here and feel like on one side, it is an empty place but in the end, it is so full of so many things, I just love it.
"I know that it is very cold and I couldn't be outside for many hours but the experience is magnificent, the beauty is fantastic and for the people of my world, a few days in a place like this would be magnificent."
Jose Mourinho has mastered the art of high speed drifting and full throttle ice driving on a 60km frozen lake at Jaguar Land Rover's extreme testing facility in Arjeplog, Sweden. The ex-Chelsea boss - who is a Jaguar ambassador - was testing a high performance Jaguar F-PACE as part of an extreme driver training experience just 40 miles from the Arctic Circle. In 2017, the Jaguar Ice Drive Experience will be available all over the world.
