José Mourinho claims not to read his own press, but other people do it for him. “During the holidays, I had the biggest, most important, craziest offer of work that any manager has had in the history of football,” he told reporters at a press conference on Saturday. “I turned that down because I had given my word to the players, the ownership and the fans [at Roma].
“Three months later, it seems that I am the problem? I can’t accept that. I don’t read [the news], I don’t listen, I don’t watch TV. But I have friends, I have players, collaborators, other people who make sure all this chatter reaches me even if I don’t want them to. And I don’t accept it. I don’t accept it because it’s not true. I am not the problem. In football, as in practically every part of life, things are multi-factorial.”
