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Jose Mourinho: Manchester United Tenure Could Have Been Different If Club Trusted Me More

The fortunes of Manchester United, the 20-time English champions, have improved little since his departure, with Erik Ten Hag taking over in 2022 following the tenures of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and interim coach Ralf Rangnick

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Jose Mourinho feels his time with Manchester United could have turned out differently. Photo: Martin Rickett/PA
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Jose Mourinho believes his time with Manchester United may have been more successful had he been afforded the same level of support and trust as current manager Erik ten Hag. (More Football News)

Mourinho won the Carabao Cup and Europa League in his first season at Old Trafford before finishing second in the Premier League the following campaign.

But the Portuguese, who revealed he endured a difficult working relationship with former United chief executive Ed Woodward, was sacked in December 2018 after a poor run of results.

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The fortunes of the 20-time English champions have improved little since his departure, with Dutchman Ten Hag taking over in 2022 following the tenures of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and interim coach Ralf Rangnick.

바카라œMy relationship with Ed Woodward was good 바카라“ good as in the personal point of view,바카라 Mourinho told the Telegraph.

바카라œBut from a professional point of view it was not the best.

바카라œI am who I am. I am a football man. Ed comes from a different background and what Ten Hag has in his time at Manchester United I didn바카라™t have. I didn바카라™t have that level of support. I didn바카라™t have that level of trust.

바카라œSo I left sad, because I felt I was in the beginning of the process.

바카라œIn some moments, I felt if they trusted me and believed in my experience things could be different.바카라

Former Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid manager Mourinho returned to the Premier League with Tottenham in 2019 before taking charge at Roma, a role he left in January.

The 61-year-old 바카라œwould love Manchester United to succeed바카라 but suggested some squad members remaining from his tenure lack the professionalism to represent a club striving to compete with the world바카라™s best.

바카라œThere are a couple of players still there I didn바카라™t want five or six years ago,바카라 he said.

바카라œI think they represent a little bit what I consider not the best professional profile to a club of a certain dimension.

바카라œBut I did my job there. Time always tells the truth. I would love Manchester United to succeed.바카라

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