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DJ Spoony meets Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho

As the new La Liga season prepared to get underway, BBC Radio 5 live's DJ Spoony sat down with former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho to discuss his career, life at Real Madrid and future plans.

Here are the highlights of that interview:

SPOONY: I'm used to calling the top man at a football club 'the manager', but you're head coach at Real Madrid. Do you like being a manager or do you prefer to be called coach?

MOURINHO: In my relationship with my players I had everything. I had the traditional Portuguese 'Mr', I had 'the guv', I had 'the boss', 'coach' and 'Jose'.

“If sometimes I'm not an easy person to work with it's because I fight for my people, I fight for the club and I fight for the fans, and I become a fanâ€

SPOONY: Which is your favourite?

MOURINHO: You know, 'the guv' was the one I took. I think it was Damien Duff, the first one to call me that, and I took a few weeks to understand the dimension. What matters for me is that it remains forever. Even today Frank Lampard and John Terry call me 'boss' and I'm not the boss anymore.

SPOONY: When we see you on the touchline or in a press conference, it would very much appear that those things don't matter to you. But sitting here speaking to you now, you hold these things very dear and close to you.

MOURINHO: These are the things that matter for me. I read a book from one of the most important coaches in the history of university sports, John Wooden, a basketball coach at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), and one of the things he says is that the most important thing in all of this is 'the man'. The human relation. The best coach is the one who puts in everything.

SPOONY: Is winning everything?

MOURINHO: No, winning is not everything. But winning is more important than any one of us. Sometimes you have the feeling during the match that a player cannot improve, and you can read the situation - he didn't start well, but he has the conditions to finish well - but sometimes you feel immediately the team started bad, the players are bad, and you have to make some changes.

If the result goes completely against you, you have to take some decisions and some risks and everyone's afraid of that.

SPOONY: You hold Sir Alex Ferguson in very high regard?

MOURINHO: Of course. My first contact with him was not one to forget because Porto beat Manchester United in the Champions League. After the match he was knocking on our dressing room door with Gary Neville, and they wanted to congratulate our dressing room.

So that was a moment when I understood that when the win is deserved, you have to respect the winners and you have to know to enjoy a little bit the happiness of the others.

It happened with Bayern Munich last season when we (Real Madrid) lost the semi-final on penalties, and at the end of the match it was not a drama for me.

I was also in their dressing room. I remember that day of Porto-Man United, and it was the start of my relationship with the greatest manager of British football.

SPOONY: Would you go back to Chelsea?

MOURINHO: I will go where people really want me. But I have to repeat always this: I'm with Real Madrid, I very much want to be, I have a new contract, I'm not thinking about leaving.

The day I leave is when I want to go. But yes, I want to go back one day, that's for sure.

SPOONY: People always say Barcelona are the greatest club side that we've ever seen in this generation, yet Real Madrid won La Liga. You must be proud?

MOURINHO: We won, and we won with nine points difference. They didn't win, and they didn't win because they had a bad season, because sometimes big teams have a bad season where they lose points.

They had 91 points, and with 91 points you are the champion of every Liga. The point is, Real Madrid had 100 points. We beat every record in the league in Spain and so we won because we were tremendous, because we've had an incredible season.

SPOONY: What drives you? What keeps you so motivated?

MOURINHO: The club above everything. When I go to a club, I wear the shirt, I feel the shirt like my first one or my last one, I feel the fans as part of myself, I create internal links with fans.

I become immediately one of them, and I feel that I am one of them with a privileged position to fight for the club and to try to bring to all of them happiness.

SPOONY: Is this what happens when there's a potential problem between yourself and an owner, in that they don't always see it from the fans' point of view?

MOURINHO: You go through my career since day one until now and I've never had problems with clubs and owners.

At Chelsea, I didn't want to stay and let things go into a direction where we were all feeling it was not the best direction.

We felt that was the best decision, because in this moment we are friends. There are no problems between me and Roman (Abramovich, Chelsea owner).

SPOONY: Sir Bobby Robson is a national treasure in the UK and you were his right-hand man. How much did you learn from him?

MOURINHO: I was lucky. I was lucky because he took me in when I was really young. I spent something like five years with Sir Bobby, and of course he was very important for me.

But again, if you ask me to say the most important things with Sir Bobby and why did I learn a lot, I keep the person. I forget everything about football and I keep the person.

SPOONY: You've signed a new contract until 2016 at Real Madrid, but the accusation in the past is that you're just about winning trophies, and not bothered about young players coming through. So what is your master plan for Real Madrid?

MOURINHO: You know, first of all the challenge was to come here and to win, and to stop that domination of Barcelona in the Spanish league. We did it, and I could say 'job done', but we want not to win in an isolated way - we want to keep winning.

Real Madrid was the biggest club of the last century because of results, and we want Real Madrid to go in the same direction in the 21st century.

SPOONY: And just before I let you go, do you see yourself one day managing an international side? Would you manage an international side that wasn't Portugal?

MOURINHO: In this moment I don't see it because it's a completely different kind of job. In the club we play 60 matches a season, in an international team we play maybe 10, so it's a job I don't want to have in this moment.

But it's a job that makes people full of pride, especially if you do it with your own country, and I will do it with Portugal because I think Portuguese people wouldn't understand if I do it with another country. I don't imagine myself in the World Cup playing against Portugal.

SPOONY: Managing England against Portugal in the semi-finals…

MOURINHO: It would be dramatic…

What a guy. For me the best manager in the world bar none. I would love him to come back to Chelsea but i dont think he will. Before we won the CL he might have thougth that there was unfinished business but now we have won everything. What would he come back to achieve?

It always somewhat annoys me that when he was at Chelsea, the press had their daggers out the whole time but the instant he left, all these writers suddenly changed their tune and pretended they'd thought he was amazing the whole time.

Great man, great manager.

I think and hope he feels that he needs to win the CL with us still. Would be really good to have him back one day. So true what abigsmurf states above. The press seem to have eased off AVB since him joining To**enham.

It always somewhat annoys me that when he was at Chelsea, the press had their daggers out the whole time but the instant he left, all these writers suddenly changed their tune and pretended they'd thought he was amazing the whole time.

Great man, great manager.

There is a reason for that , he plays the press very well don't forget the first season and a half it was a Jose love in when hardly a bad word was said . He used to have lots of off the record chats with jurnos at the start and often just had a cup of coffee and a chat ... as soon as things weren't going his way and they openly started to put comments he did not like in papers they were just shut out and denied access to him ... that is why he had a backlash

Sending Spoony to interview Jose is like sending a hamster to ask the Dalai Lama about the meaning of life.

Jose's affection for the blues has never been a secret. When asked about the CL final he said that of course he'd support Chelsea and that he was blue. I have no doubt he'll be back at the Bridge one day, just hope he'll be sitting on the home bench

Jose's affection for the blues has never been a secret. When asked about the CL final he said that of course he'd support Chelsea and that he was blue. I have no doubt he'll be back at the Bridge one day, just hope he'll be sitting on the home bench

I wouldn't be surprised either, as posted above we're unfinished business and to win the CL with us would be a fulfillment, however he has the same issue with Real and he's going to want to win the thing while he's there and to be honest he has a better chance there at present than he would have with us. I'm sure he thought that it was theirs for the winning against us last year but Bayern put paid to it. Had we played Real in the final I think they would have torn us to pieces as they're less predicable and more dynamic than Barcelona. Sooner or later we're going to play Real (I predict this season) and no matter what he states about his love for Chelsea, he'll be relishing beating us again as he did with Inter but can you really blame him ?

He always says just enough to keep us hanging on..... The git !!

But i'd still love him back in the future some time.

Alan

Jose's affection for the blues has never been a secret. When asked about the CL final he said that of course he'd support Chelsea and that he was blue. I have no doubt he'll be back at the Bridge one day, just hope he'll be sitting on the home bench

"I'm always blue" or something, were the words. Then I thought "what about Inter? they're blue too" - how do Inter fans feel about him, do they think he loves Inter just as much as he (supposedly) loves Chelsea?

A friend of mine the other day said "Mourinho loves Chelsea and Chelsea love Mourinho". It's true. I rewatched a few of his interviews recently and he's just amazing. The one about eggs and omelettes? amazing. Bird flu? best way to deflect pressure off himself.

He's always said English football was his home and he would one day return, and it's often said that he's going to be Fergie's successor, but if he loved Chelsea he'd never do that.

I totally think that he will be the next United manager. If it is true that Fergie will retire in two years then that would suit Jose down to the ground.

I cant ever see him coming back to us.

I totally think that he will be the next United manager. If it is true that Fergie will retire in two years then that would suit Jose down to the ground.

I cant ever see him coming back to us.

I agree, I can easily see this happening. Given how highly Fergie is revered by Mourinho, I'm sure Jose would relish the chance to continue Ferguson's legacy. In 2 years time I reckon Jose will have won the CL with Madrid and will then want a new challenge. I hold out hope that that would be at Chelsea but I'm just not sure.

Although he probably never will come back to CFC Jose will hold a place in my heart. He was amusing when he talked (mostly) dressed stylishly, made hard decisions and of course achieved results. A great manager and from the looks of things a great individual and family man.Few of us will achieve as much

I wouldn't be surprised either, as posted above we're unfinished business and to win the CL with us would be a fulfillment, however he has the same issue with Real and he's going to want to win the thing while he's there and to be honest he has a better chance there at present than he would have with us. I'm sure he thought that it was theirs for the winning against us last year but Bayern put paid to it. Had we played Real in the final I think they would have torn us to pieces as they're less predicable and more dynamic than Barcelona. Sooner or later we're going to play Real (I predict this season) and no matter what he states about his love for Chelsea, he'll be relishing beating us again as he did with Inter but can you really blame him ?

Couldn't agree more. I also think they're favourites for the CL this season. Jose's unlikely to leave until they do though