ONE MOUR TIME Serial winner Jose’s still chasing trophies
GLOWING P FOR A SPECIAL ONE
Now he is hell-bent on grabbing enough silverware to become a legend at Manchester United.
The Old Trafford boss is proud of a photograph hanging in the inner sanctum of him with the Community Shield.
But he will not settle for that. Mourinho is hungry for more snapshots of success after collecting 23 trophies in a marauding managerial career.
That is why he believes he can win any – or all – of the knockout competitions coming up, the League Cup, FA Cup and Europa League.
Then next season Mourinho aims to add more quality to a squad he does not think has enough winners.
Mourinho, asked what he had to do to become a legend, said: “I have to win titles for the club, like I did in every club where I was.
“I am a legend in my clubs. I am a JOSE MOURINHO has admitted that he was caught cold by the anouncement of Frank Lampard’s retirement.
That did not stop him from giving a warm, emotional tribute to his former Chelsea player who has rewritten the record books at Stamford Bridge.
The Manchester United boss was asked for his views on Lampard – capped 106 times by STEVE MILLAR legend in Porto, in Inter, in Chelsea. I belong to their history really, really high.
“In Real Madrid I belong to their history. Manchester United I belong to the history because I have a picture in one room where all the managers are. But I won a Community Shield and nothing else.
“I think I am working really hard, harder than ever. But the reality is that the history is made by the numbers. It is made by the number of trophies.
“My history as a manager is made by 23 trophies. It is not made by second, fifth, lost a cup, lost the final. The history is made by victories.
“In another three competitions we can win – we are there.
We have a 50 per cent chance of winning the League Cup. We are in the last 16 of the FA Cup and last 32 of the Europa League.”
So does he feel he has enough players whose natural habitat is to be a success STREVEMAILLAIRSE England – calling time on his 21-year professional career after his media conference on Friday.
He confessed he had not heard the news and then gave a glowing account of his friendship with the former England star.
Mourinho said: “He retired? Yes? I did not know this. I am at the Theatre of Dreams? Mourinho said: “No – that is why we win things step by step. Competing, learning how to feel the pressure if you have a final to play, a final to win.
“You have semi-finals. then in the league your rival loses 24 hours later. You need to win your game in hand to recover these points. We need to feel this pressure and to cope with this.
“It is something that, of course, we don’t have enough of.
“And the ones with a history of success where that is part of their natural habitat are Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick.
“Who else? Zlatan Ibrahimovic but not at this club. Antonio Valencia and not many others.”
But Mourinho will press on regardless in his quest to fight with Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City for a Champions League spot.
Ahead of today’s game with champions Leicester, he said: “I honestly think that some teams are better prepared than others, with more consistent work over really sad. It’s the reality of life but I am really sad. I rate him one of my best players, one of my best friends in the game.
“And one of the guys that it doesn’t matter what he chooses for the rest of his life because he is going to be successful.
“I don’t know what he wants but it doesn’t matter.
“Whatever the direction he gives to his life, he will succeed.” the past few years. But I want the players to have that feeling too.
“The feeling that I want after a win is that we have to be a champion and play like champions, even if we don’t have many chances.
“It is evolution in the mentality for those guys who don’t have that for a few years. They are in a different zone of the relation between the ambitions of the club and what they feel they can achieve.
“There is an empty space there and I have to fill that space with lots of work. With another transfer window in the summer, step by step we have to fill that space.
“We are growing up this season in relation to last season.
“We are improving but the other teams are also improving. So it makes it more difficult for the ones who are behind to grow up again.
“It is difficult, it takes more time.” The pair lifted two Premier League titles together in their time at Stamford Bridge.
Lampard (right) played every game in Mourinho’s first season in charge and scored 13 goals as Chelsea conquered English football in 2005.
The midfield legend, 38, finally called time on his career last week after a spell in the MLS with New York.