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When the "Manchester United" club decided to replace Sir Alex Ferguson with David Moyes, one of the contenders for this position was Jose Mourinho. Upon learning this fact, he turned red and started shouting loudly. This is written in the book "Prepare to Lose" by Spanish journalist Diego Torres, who decided to paint J. Mourinho's work portrait at Madrid's "Real".
When J. Mourinho found out that he would not go from "Santiago Bernabeu" to "Old Trafford," it seemed like the most regrettable moment of his life, wrote D. Torres. He began to shout: "But he (D. Moyes) hasn't won anything!"
D. Torres, also known as one of the long-time critics of the Portuguese, insists that J. Mourinho's agent, Jorge Mendes, convinced the strategist that after A. Ferguson retired, the "Manchester United" coaching position would be his.
"He believed that his friendship with A. Ferguson, his amazing collection of titles made him the only possible choice," wrote the journalist.
However, all of J. Mourinho's beliefs were in vain. A. Ferguson and "Manchester United" heirs decided to choose D. Moyes. The coach, who had previously worked at the "Everton" club, and led Champions League matches twice - both were selections and both were lost. However, A. Ferguson liked the Scotsman, who grew up near him in childhood. Journalists saw many similarities between A. Ferguson and D. Moyes.
Initially, it was unexpected and surprising for the media - after all, for a long time it was written that J. Mourinho was already measuring the coach's chair, but later "Manchester United" went in a different direction.
What disturbed J. Mourinho the most was that in the public sphere, he appeared as a fool. He felt deceived by A. Ferguson and feared that others would stop taking him seriously. For so long, the media wrote about the great friendship between the coaches, and later it turned out that it was all a lie.
Later J. Mourinho went to England, but now he is coaching London's "Chelsea".
