Mourinho returns to football as TV pundit.

PARIS: Jose Mourinho (pic) has secured his first job since being sacked as Manchester United coach after joining BeIN Sports as a pundit, the broadcaster announced.

“The Special One” will be an analyst for Chelsea’s Premier League trip to Arsenal on Jan 19 as well as Qatar and Saudi Arabia’s Asian Cup group-stage tie on Jan 17 on the Qatari channel’s broadcasts in the Middle East and North Africa.

He was sacked by United in December after the club’s worst start to a season since 1990 and won three trophies during his two-anda-half year tenure at Old Trafford.

“Jose is one of the greatest football managers of all time, and we hope that his expert analysis and charismatic personality will be enjoyed by our millions of viewers,” a beIN spokesman said in a statement on Thursday.

Mourinho had been linked with a return to former club Benfica after the Lisbon giants fired coach Rui Vitoria last week, but the 55-yearold told Correio da Manha earlier on Thursday that he would not take the job.

“I don’t have any intention of coming back to work in Portugal,” he told the newspaper. “I’m fine at the moment.”

Mourinho said he did not want to talk about his dismissal by United.

“I have learned that, when you leave a club, you don’t go around talking about it, you don’t wash your dirty laundry in public. The chapter is finished and you don’t go around making criticism,” he said.

“The other thing I have learned is to respect the clubs who want me and those who don’t want me.”