José Mourinho was in a good mood on Sunday evening after his Manchester United side beat Burnley 2-0 away.
At least, that’s how La Repubblica journalist Andrea Sorrentino portrays him in his article about the Portuguese manager on Monday, revealing a few quotes of a private chat the two shared, knowing each other well from the Special One’s time at Inter.
The game aside, the reporter asked Mourinho about the plane that flew over Turf Moor prior to the game, calling Ed Woodward a ‘specialist in failure’.
The manager said: “I didn’t see the plane because I wasn’t looking up to the sky, even though I often ask for help from up there, but at the pitch. Today, everybody won. Even Ed Woodward won 2-0.”
Sorrentino then says he jokingly asked him ‘Admit it, you’re the one who paid for the plane…’, to which Mourinho burst out laughing, and replied, in Italian: “No, magari potessi…”.
We put the quote in its original language because it translates one of two ways: either Mourinho is telling Sorrentino ‘No, maybe you could…’ or he saying ‘No, I wish I could…’
Judging by the tone of the conversation, our guess is that he meant the latter, and he said it very jokingly, rather than outright saying he wish he could pay for a plane to criticise Ed Woodward.
The Manchester United head coach was then pressed about his job that ‘seems so shaky’.
His answer? “They say I could be in danger, but never mind… If they let me go, do you have how much money they would have to pay me? Ah ah.”
We’re guessing that ‘ah ah’ at the end is Mourinho laughing and not just making strange noises, but it seems the Red Devils’ manager isn’t too worried about his job security as things stand.
