Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has offered up an exclusive interview to BT Sport, as he prepares for his first game as the club’s manager this weekend.

Yahoo Sport brings you the best bits here, before the full interview is aired on Wednesday night.



On feeling pressure:

No. I feel the responsibility, as I mentioned of the job. It’s obviously a worldwide attention. I feel that in the city of Manchester, people feel the club with such a passion. I feel the responsibility, yes, but not the pressure. To be fair in football, I always had big jobs on my hands, ever since Porto. Porto were a big club in Portugal and I had some of the biggest clubs in England, in Spain, in Italy and I live and learn how to live with that responsibility. I think it’s good for me because it’s a way to motivate myself, to feel this good feeling that when I don’t have it, I miss it.



On how different it feels to manage Manchester United:

I think every job is a different job but the reality is that every club that I go out to is a club with clear objectives. When I go to Inter, they were dreaming of the Champions League for 50 years. When I go to Real Madrid they were desperate to stop Barcelona’s dominance. When I got to Chelsea for the first time, the club was dreaming about the first title under the new owner. The second time the club was in an empty period of Premier League titles and then I came here with a difficult period of three years, where the FA Cup was great but the fact that in the past three years we couldn’t qualify twice for the Champions League. So clear objectives are in my hands.













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On Manchester United’s objective this season:

Man United has to be in the Champions League. I think that the Champions League is empty when Man United is not there. Imagine the Champions League without Man United, Real Madrid, Barcelona. There are a certain numbers of clubs that make it not a Champions League without these clubs. That’s Man United and their natural habitat.







I wouldn’t be happy with just finishing in the top 4. I would be happy with that but plus a greater evolution in the team in terms of our evolved football. Opening the door for in the next couple of years back to winning titles. I don’t like to go to the players and tell them ‘let’s try to finish in the top four’ - let’s try to win every game. We don’t and we know that, especially in this country, at this moment it is impossible for anyone. But to have that as a starting point, let’s go to every game and try to win every game. But I think a big club like we are, we need to have this mentality.



On his first perception of the Manchester United team:

The process is to know the players even before I work with them, which is not a huge difficulty because it is a country that I have been working for the past 3 years, that I watch every weekend on TV, that I watch every match and played against them many times - so basically I know the players. I was without a job since December. I watched football and I analysed the teams.







I try, for example with Man United, to learn as much as possible about them, so I know the team they were and I know the team I want them to be. To be the team I want them to be we need a few players to adapt to my way of seeing football. The difficulty of the job for me is that I’m so different from Mr Van Gaal. I’m not saying I’m better, I’m saying different.

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