Sacked in December by Chelsea after a poor start in the league, the Portuguese is yet to return to managment with rumours linking him with a move to both Inter Milan and Chelsea’s Premier league rivals Manchester United.
To those Manchester United fans want him to manage their club, Mourinho has made it clears it will be a struggle for the red devils and any English club for that matter to do well in Europe.
“Some countries in this moment, it is easier for them,” Mourinho told BT Sport quote via express.
“A team who are champions in February – that team have much more conditions to be successful than a team that are playing until the last match of the season in May.”
“I’ll give you an example: Two years ago I played Champions League semi-final with Chelsea against Atletico Madrid.
“Two days later I was playing Liverpool v Chelsea at Anfield to decide the champions of England.
“So I would look to a Spanish team – Barcelona, Real Madrid – I would look to a German team – Bayern Munich – and I would say comparing the competitive realities during 10 months [of the compertition], I think they arrive in the key moment of the season in better conditions than other clubs.”
It is difficult not to agree with Jose Mourinho. English teams will not do well in Europe any time soon until the Premier league decides to help the teams. For instance, Arsenal had to play Watford on Sunday and then Barca on Wednesday and will have to play Everton on Saturday as well.
The Premier league, the FA and the league tv right owners could have made it easier for the teams playing in Europe by letting them play on Fridays and Saturdays rather than on Saturdays and Sundays.
Barca, when they have a match on Tuesday in Europe, are allowed to play their games on Saturday, most times early kick off and this is despite Spain having to play league games than the prmeier league over the course of a football season.
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