Inter Milan coach
Jose Mourinho has declared he
wants to return to the Premiership.
Mourinho, who had three full seasons at Chelsea after making Porto champions of Europe as
well as his native Portugal, is in his second season with
Inter Milan and on top of
Serie A, having already
celebrated one national title in Italy, his fifth over seven
seasons in three countries.
“I want to build something,” he told The Times.
"Clearly it is unrealistic to expect to stay at a club as long
as Sir Alex, but I am ready for the next phase of my career,” he
said. “I want to work with a different perspective.
“At Porto, my objective was to win to earn the right to go
abroad. At Chelsea, my ambition
was to create a bit of history [the club had not won the title for
half a century]. But I always knew Chelsea lacked the normal English culture of
stability.
“I was never under any illusions. I understood the personality
of Roman and the culture of the people around him [Mourinho
carefully exempted Peter Kenyon, the outgoing chief executive, from
this] and knew it was not a job for ten years.
“My role was to give this man what he wanted — victory — knowing
that, sooner or later, my time would finish, because there were too
many things going on around me.
“In Italy, I was coming to the motherland of tactics, the
country of catenaccio and defensive football. The objective was to
win not only in a third different league but a place where they say
foreign coaches have had little success. But the time will come for
stability.
“I love Inter and would love to build for the future here. In
fact, I am doing it now, because I am not a selfish coach and I’m
thinking about the future in terms of youth development and the age
structure of my first team — but Italy is not the country for this.
England is the country. And my football is English football.”