Mourinho: Roma career was 'dead' after Europa League final, airport fiasco 'wasn't my responsibility'
In a candid reflection, José Mourinho has said his role at Roma was effectively over despite winning the 2022 Europa League final, describing his subsequent period at the club as a 'dead' career. The Portuguese coach also addressed the airport fiasco that preceded his exit, insisting the responsibility did not lie with him. The comments provide a retrospective look at one of the most turbulent managerial stints in recent Serie A memory, and at Mourinho's mindset as he continues his career elsewhere.
Read the full story at football-italia.netMourinho's framing — that the Europa League triumph was the high-water mark rather than a launching pad — is a candid admission about how quickly things soured at Roma, where relationship fractures with the Friedkin ownership and squad turnover outweighed the momentum of that 2022 trophy. The deflection of blame over the airport episode is consistent with his pattern of narrative control during exits: shaping the story before rivals and former employers can. For Roma, this kind of public airing reinforces how the post-2022 rebuild (De Rossi, then Ranieri) was effectively a clean break from the Mourinho project.
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