Mourinho: "You know my nature. I want to win"
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APPIANO GENTILE - José Mourinho spoke to ITV and Sky Sports during today's media open day at Inter's training headquarters.

This is what he had to say:

Massimo Moratti told me yesterday that José Mourinho is already the best coach in the world.
"Mmmm. I don't like that. I like to be because I feel I deserve to be in the special group of managers who did important things and I think I did enough to be in this group. I have won in England, Italy and Europe."

But so quickly. That's the difference.
"Yes. But I don't want to stop my career now. In ten years I can say I did this, this and this, but I want to carry on. I don't want to stop."

No, of course you don't. How do you want to be remembered? If you want to be remembered as a type of coach, as a man, how would it be?
"I want to be loved forever by the people I work with, and by the supporters of the clubs where I work."

And the opponents? Do you want to be respected by the opponents? Or is that impossible?
"For example, this season I won the award for the best manager, voted by every single player of the Serie A. And I couldn't be voted by my players, so I was elected by the players of the other nineteen teams. So I'm respected."

What would it mean to you to join the special group of people who have won the Champions League twice?
"I'm not obsessed with this. I'm not obsessed with bringing this cup to Milan. It's a dream to make people happy and for Inter, who haven't won it for fifty years, it would be something magnificent. I'm so young as a manager, I'm so many years ahead of me that I trust that sooner or later I will do it, but I prefer to do it now than in a few years' time, so I go to Madrid thinking about only good things. I will try to win obviously, with my team playing well and respecting the referee and the opponents. Our supporters are top supporters, they don't create any kind of problems. So I want to participate in this big match, but of course you know my nature. I want to win."

It's been billed as master versus apprentice. Is it?
"I learned with him (Van Gaal). I have to be fair with him, I have to be honest. I worked with him for three years when I was a very young coach, in my early thirties. In that moment he was important for me, like Bobby Robson was important for me even before him. But since 2000 I have been alone, so in ten years I have built my roads but I will always thank the people that gave me real contributions."

If you were to achieve an incredible treble for Inter Milan, would it almost make it impossible to come back, because you have achieved everything? Could you be the type of coach to ever stay at one club for a long time, like Sir Alex Ferguson, like Arsene Wenger. You seem to work in short bursts at a club, with a certain style, a siege mentality.
"Today I'm not Chelsea coach because they didn't want it. When I'm really happy, when I feel loved and respected and when everything is going really well for me, I would love to do this. When I look at my family and kids and stability, of course it's something that could be very very important for me. But in Chelsea for some reasons we decided to stop our relationship and as I keep saying, in Italy I have found everything I want, but nothing in Italian football. That's why maybe I will decide to move, but the day will arrive when I feel that's where I want to be and that's where I want to stay."
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