AS Roma half methods with Jose Mourinho as supervisor

Jose Mourinho has left Serie A facet Roma with instant impact, the membership introduced on Tuesday.

Mourinho’s contract was up on the finish of the season however, following their 3-1 defeat to AC Milan on Sunday and with the membership in ninth in Serie A, the house owners and the supervisor have parted methods.

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It brings an finish to Mourinho’s spell on the membership, which began in Could 2021 and noticed him win the Europa Convention League title in 2022 and attain the Europa League closing final season.

“We want to thank José on behalf of all of us at Roma for his ardour and efforts since his arrival on the membership,” stated house owners Dan and Ryan Friedkin.

“We’ll at all times have nice reminiscences of his tenure at Roma, however we imagine that an instantaneous change is in the perfect pursuits of the membership. We want Jose and his assistants all the perfect of their future endeavours.”

Mourinho’s three years at Roma peaked with them profitable the Europa Convention League title towards Feyenoord in Tirana. It was their first trophy in 11 years of their first European closing since 1991.

However after a tricky 2023-24 season, the ultimate straw seems to be the defeat to Milan on the weekend. It got here after a poor run of type when Roma have been knocked out of the Coppa Italia by native rivals Lazio on Jan. 10, and had only one win in six league matches. However simply final week, he was reiterating his dedication to the membership. “I have been right here for 2 years and 5 months and I am the one individual right here who hasn’t missed a single coaching session in that point,” Mourinho stated. “For me, there aren’t any diseases or dangerous moods.

“For 2 and a half years I have not achieved something fallacious, not even a few weeks in the past when everybody was sick. I don’t settle for in any method that my professionalism and dignity, my coronary heart for this job, could be questioned. If there’s a excellent instance of professionalism, it’s me. I’ve by no means missed one match in over 20 years of my profession.”

Mourinho joined Roma in 2021 following a profession that noticed him handle FC Porto, Chelsea (twice), Inter Milan, Actual Madrid, Manchester United and Tottenham. He took the Roma job simply 15 days after being sacked at Spurs.

Considered one of his closing acts at Roma was to match himself to Harry Potter.

“The Roma followers are essentially the most unimaginable I’ve seen,” Mourinho stated. “Their coach is Jose ‘Harry Potter’ Mourinho, and he raises expectations.”