Budapest (EFE) that he had been “very clear” with them, although he declined to reveal what this will be and stressed that now he only “cares” about his team “and tomorrow’s final.”
In his press conference at the Puskás Arena in the Hungarian capital, before the training session prior to the final, the Portuguese coach responded this way after being questioned about the fact that when he won the treble in 2010 with Inter Milan, with the title of the Champions League, it was sensed that he was going to leave the interista club and ended up signing for Real Madrid.
An evasive Mourinho before the questions about his future
Asked if now, in the event of winning the final against Sevilla and after the Conference League won last year in Tirana, he will leave Roma, Mourinho replied that perhaps they should ask “the same question to (José Luis) Mendilibar”, the Sevilla coach, because “perhaps his situation – he only signed for the last three months of the season – is more complex” than his.
“I have spoken to my two captains (Lorenzo Pellegrini and Gianluca Mancini) and they have asked me a similar question. I have been very clear and I do not want them to say what has been said there because it remains between us, it is something private, but there is a big difference between this situation and the one I was experiencing when Inter played”, assured the coach from Rome.
At that time, he specified, “I had not signed any contract with Real Madrid, although the agreement was made, but in this case there is nothing”, and added: “the situation is completely different and, furthermore, I don’t care: I just we and we, the Rome; we want to play the final tomorrow”.
His midfielder Lorenzo Pellegrini referred to this issue, when asked at a press conference, and commented that they had “talked before” about this point with the coach, “but it is obvious that what has been said remains” between them and that “The moment he (Mourinho) plays, he will talk about his future”, since, in addition, they are now “focused on the final this Wednesday”.