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MOURINHO TIES ROMA’S QUALIFICATION FOR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AS CONDITION TO HANDLE CLUB

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Italia Serie A club, Roma has offered Jose Mourinho a three-year deal’ to be manager after ‘multiple meetings’. But he is insisting he will only take the job if Roma are in the Champions League. According to UK’s Daily Mail, Mourinho has been assessing options since being sacked in December.   

He left Manchester United in acrimonious circumstances and is on the job hunt.

Roma are front-runners for him but only with Champions League football 

Mourinho’s major alternative as it stands would be French giants PSG  

The former Manchester United boss has been on the job hunt since his sacking last December and the Serie A side are front-runners as it stands.

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According to L’Equipe, the Portuguese will only take up the role if Roma qualify for next season’s Champions League. 

The capital city club are currently fifth, one point off Atalanta in the final spot for next year’s competition. 

There are still four games to play so Roma have every chance of sneaking into the top four, drastically increasing the chances of Mourinho taking charge having had ‘multiple meetings’. 

As it stands Claudio Ranieri is the interim manager in the Eternal City until the end of the season. 

They are not the first club to chase Mourinho’s services since his departure from Old Trafford. 

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Former side Inter Milan also made an approach but PSG are considered the most likely alternative to Roma as it stands.  

Inter CEO Beppe Marotta has also held talks with former Chelsea boss Antonio Conte, who has been out of work since being sacked from his post at Stamford Bridge.

Talks between Mourinho and Roma have been progressing well, and he is eager to get back into management with a club that will back his philosophy and show patience.

His relationship with key players in the dressing room at Manchester United soured, particularly Paul Pogba.

And after a poor run of form, culminating in the 3-1 defeat by rivals Liverpool at Anfield last December, Mourinho’s time at Old Trafford came to an abrupt end. 

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No doubt he’ll be desperate to reestablish himself as one of the greatest managers of his generation in his next role. 

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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