Irish Sunday Mirror

Portugal bosses eye up their favourite son

- BY SIMON MULLOCK

JOSE MOURINHO’S precarious position at Manchester United is being monitored by the Portuguese Football Federation.

The United boss is third favourite in the Premier League sack race after firing an angry broadside at his Old Trafford bosses for a lack of new signings.

And his growing frustratio­n has alerted PFF chiefs back in his homeland even though they backed current boss Fernando Santos after the World Cup.

Mourinho, 55, has a stated ambition of one day coaching his national team.

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