May 31, 2023, 10:16 PM
May 31, 2023, 10:16 PM
“I think the answer to that question is not important right now. I have always said that the team is important and I keep saying it. I’ll answer it,” Mourinho declared at a press conference when asked about his future in the face of rumors about the supposed interest of other European teams.
The Portuguese did hint that he is not completely comfortable in the Roman entity: “I’m a bit tired of being a coach, of having to be the club’s spokesman, of being something more… The time has come to talk to the property.”
Mourinho, who congratulated Sevilla on their title in a “very tough, highly competitive and tense” game, stressed that the Spanish teamHe “has more talent and solutions”, but he also regretted the referee’s performance.
“Having refereeing like this in a European final is very hard (…) There were not one, not two, not three decisions” unfavorable for him to his team and he cited as an example the yellow card that Spinazzola saw for a fall in the rival area, but he did not show it to Ocampos for a similar action, nor did he send off Lamela by several faults. And only I am speaking of the small decisions”, estimated.
“You can lose a game, but never lose your dignity and not only have we not lost it, but we can return home very proud because we have given everything”, he highlighted.
With the defeat in this final, Roma have no chance of playing in the Champions League next year, “but paradoxically it’s a positive thing, because we don’t have a team to play a competition like this”.
And he ended up wishing for “that great referee” Anthony Taylor, who “Do great refereeing in the Champions League, but not referee in the Europa League”, competition for which Roma must get a ticket next weekend on the last day of Serie A.
