Mourinho away from Rome? Psg hypothesis, messages to the Friedkins. The situation – Corriere.it

Almost exactly two years ago — it was May 4, 2021 — the announcement of Jose Mourinho as new coach of Roma he displaced the Giallorossi environment. Positively, certainly. And even Italian football has not remained indifferent to the sudden return of the coach who had given Inter the Treble 12 years earlier. Manifesto of the operation of the Friedkin. Talks in great secrecy, announcements for the current season. But then also silences. Too long for a manager like Mourinho that since January he has been sending increasingly less veiled messages to the property. So press conferences and interviews have often become occasions for the Portuguese to show a certain impatience with the subject and above all to reiterate the need for a meeting to plan the future. If the parties will continue together. Also because speaking at the end of the season “may be too late”, as Mourinho himself had said when the championship resumed after the World Cup stop.

Impatient Mourinho

Reflections, crunches and a certain impatience that did not escape the French press which soon linked the name of Mourinho to the Paris Saint-Germain who has to think about post-Galtier from next season: the Special One as the ideal substitute to try, once again, to reach the Champions League goal. The same Cup for which Roma – currently seventh in Serie A – aims to qualify with a specialist like the Portuguese through the tortuous but not arithmetically compromised path in the league or with an exploit in the Europa League. There is also in Paris Louis Campos. Leonardo’s successor under the Eiffel Tower, market man the club for about a year, he has known Mourinho since the 2012/13 season, when they both shared a year at Real Madrid. One coach, the other observer. A lasting relationship between the two compatriots but for now nothing more, given that there are currently no offers.

But one thing is certain for Mourinho now: there is the pitch and at least 6 other games to play between the championship and the Europa League (the double match in the semifinal against Bayer Leverkusen) at the helm of Roma. With Champions League qualification up for grabs. One year after the yellow and red ecstasy for winning the Conference League and a title that had been missing since 2008, there is the focus of the coach who is preparing for a season finale in which, however, there is still a lot, if not everything to decide. In all senses.