Everything Jose Mourinho has said about Liverpool rivalry, next job and selling Mohamed Salah

Jose Mourinho was spotted in attendance during Liverpool’s win over Fulham on Sunday as the Reds continued their Premier League title bid.

The Portuguese coach has been out of work since leaving Roma in January 2024, where he guided the Italian club to winning the inaugural Europa Conference League in 2022, as well as reaching last season’s Europa League final. Mourinho is searching for his next job and the odds of him replacing Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool have dropped after watching the Reds at the weekend.

Since the announcement of Klopp’s impending departure, comments from Mourinho in 2019 suggesting that Xabi Alonso could become an elite coach have resurfaced. However, Mourinho will not be under consideration by the Reds due to his time as Manchester United boss and the rivalry he created with Liverpool during his two spells at Chelsea.

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Here’s a round-up of what the three-time Premier League winner has said about Liverpool in recent months.

Jose Mourinho’s next job

In an interview with The Telegraph, Mourinho acknowledged the fact that he was not in the running for the Liverpool job. He insisted that he has no plans to call time on his coaching career any time soon and outlined the type of club that he would want to take charge of in his next role.

“It is not like I am afraid of jobs [with clubs] not ‘made to win it’. When some [managers] have reached a certain level maybe they say, ‘I will only get jobs made to win it’. It is my job to try to make clubs into those ‘made to win it’, or to reach some objectives,” Mourinho said.

“The only thing I want is that