The Magpies have been linked with the Portuguese coach in recent days.
A number of Newcastle United fans have taken to Twitter to give their opinions on Jose Mourinho appearing to distance himself from the manager’s job at St James’ Park, in conversation with The Coaches’ Voice.
Current Magpies manager Rafa Benitez will leave the Premier League outfit later this month when his contract expires after the club announced that they had failed to agree a new deal with the Spaniard.
Mourinho, who has been out of work since December, had been linked with the post with reports of a takeover by Dubai-based billionaire Sheikh Khaled bin Zayed Al Nehayan, as reported by Sky Sports News.
However, the former Chelsea and Manchester United boss stressed that any job he would take up would only be if the target was to win silverware rather than finishing “seventh, eighth or ninth”, though he does not explicitly mention Newcastle.
“The only thing that I know is what I don’t want: I am quite pathological in the sense of I have to play to win,” said Mourinho. “Then, if I don’t win, then that’s my problem and the players and the club and the structure but I need a project where the feeling is I play to win.
“If somebody gives me a wonderful 10-year contract and the objective of the team is to stay in the first half of the table and if you finish seventh, eighth or ninth, it’s perfect, then that’s not for me. That’s my nature. My next [position] is to fight to win.”
Some Magpies fans on Twitter made it clear that few supporters actually thought the reports were concrete, while others were not surprised in the slightest at Mourinho’s apparent lack of interest:
According to Sky Sports News, number of experienced managers have already expressed an interest in the role, including former Leicester City boss Claudio Ranieri and former Arsenal defender Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
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