• Jose Mourinho plays this Wednesday evening with AS Roma the final of the Europa League against Sevilla FC.
  • The Portuguese can win a second title in two seasons with the club from the Italian capital.
  • Since his good results in Italy, and his proximity to Luis Campos, rumors send him to the bench of PSG next season.

A "perfect" on the European scene with a possible sixth title in six finals. AS Roma coach Jose Mourinho can achieve the feat of winning a sixth title in the Europa League final against Sevilla FC this Wednesday night at the Puskás Arena in Budapest. All in six finals, since the first Champions League won with FC Porto in 2003, just 20 years ago.

Excellent relationship with Luis Campos

The record of a man, who can alone make a whole club like Paris Saint-Germain blush, still looking for its first European title since the arrival of QSI in 2012. That's good, persistent rumors send the Mou on the bench of the Parisian club next season.

His excellent relationship with sporting director Luis Campos, who himself is very close to his agent Jorge Mendes, make him one of the favorites to become the Parisian coach. What he has swept away, however, in his style that has become legendary. "If they are looking for me, they have not found me because they have not spoken to me," replied with a laugh the "Special One", before evoking his former Madrid club in a press conference before this final, rather than PSG.

Incredible work at AS Roma

The Mou has something to boast about, he is coming off two "exceptional" seasons at Roma, the first of which was crowned with the Conference Europa League title, the first title since 2008 and an Italian Cup, before this new European final against Sevilla. "He's doing something amazing, really. He changed the mentality of AS Roma and the way of working. By asking 100% every day from his team and the club. Incredible work," said Andrea Di Carlo, a journalist at La Republicca Roma.



A success after a more difficult period in terms of results, as evidenced by his time at Tottenham, as Nicolas Vilas, author of the book Behind the Special One, from genesis to glory, recalls: "He had this ability to start from a little lower in a league where Inter, AC Milan, Juve, even Napoli can bring back titles. He had this humility, without a crazy squad and without being able to recruit as he wanted, hence the rumours of departure because he reaches a glass ceiling, in a club with a lot of pressure and high expectations. And it's a bit like PSG, you can win so many championships, as long as you don't have the Champions League, there is media pressure.

"Too many roosters in one backyard"

A glass ceiling reached with AS Roma, which does not automatically send it to the side of PSG, according to the Italian journalist. A possible qualification in the Champions League, in case of victory on Wednesday night, could still change everything. "I don't really know if he wants to leave. I think the Europa League final is important for his future, we still have to wait a few hours. I know he considers PSG to be a strange club, where there are too many roosters in the same backyard. With a lot of players not easy to manage. I'm not sure if Mourinho would be the right coach for PSG at this point in his career."

Nicolas Vilas, on the contrary, sees many reasons for an arrival of the Mou at PSG. "I think it excites him. Campos has known him for years and there is the challenge of going to another championship. And I know he and his family love the city." But would he make a good coach at PSG? "I tell myself that Paris has tried everything in terms of coaching. And in a somewhat caricatured way, it would be nice to have a guy who knows how to be firm in front of the PSG dressing room. With his almost dictatorial manner, he knows how to do it in terms of management. And even if he is able to decide, and sometimes display some, ultimately few players speak ill of him. So I don't want to reduce it to his dictatorial side," adds Nicolas Vilas.

"It has to follow above"

His possible success at Paris Saint-Germain, if he arrives, would not necessarily boil down to his ability to manage such a star's dressing room, he has already done it at Real Madrid, but more in the freedom he should get from his management. "Whether it's players or coaches, nobody can do it. Whether you sign a confirmed player or not, it looks like his cousin is playing. And all the coaches, or almost, who left PSG won elsewhere. As in all clubs, decisions come from above and the coach is only one element of this pyramid. The president must follow the postures at the level of the players. Let's imagine that Mourinho makes the strong decision to part with a player. It has to follow above. For me the difference will not be at the relational level with the players, the vast majority say good things about Mourinho, it will be with the management, "says Nicolas Vilas.

Imagine publicly disavowing Presnel Kimpembe, at random, as he was able to do with his full-back Rick Karsdorp last November, after a draw by his team: "I am sorry that our efforts were betrayed by a player with an unprofessional attitude. I feel betrayed by one of my players, I told him to find a team in January." Or be suspended several matches for criticism of Clément Turpin, again at random, as he did towards the referee Daniele Chiffi, in Italy: "Chiffi is the worst referee I have met in my career and yet I have seen bad ones! He didn't have any influence on the result, but that doesn't change anything: he sucks, technically horrible, and has no empathy, doesn't create constructive relationships with the players. Enough to give Nasser al-Khelaïfi some white hair.

Ability to reinvent oneself

Now 60 years old, the Mou has certainly evolved, "a player is caught up by his body, but a coach always improves over time, with the accumulation of experience," he confided recently, but he has not fundamentally changed as André Di Carlo and Nicolas Vilas agree: "It's always the Mou, always the special one. On and off the field. José is always the same," says the first, while for the second "Mourinho, has always been the same, from his debut with Benfica, and his very clear-cut postures, until today and his outspokenness".

An ability to reinvent itself while remaining the same, which, according to Luis Fernandez would stick well to the needs of the club of the capital. "He has proven himself where he has had the opportunity to express himself. And he does not coach clubs without means, which PSG can offer him. He is a respected coach, a competitor whose track record speaks for itself. It's up to him to take charge of the group and bring it as far as possible through the state of mind with an outspokenness that we accept, or not, "lists the former coach of PSG. With only one reservation: the game project. But at PSG, we want to win, more than play well.

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