Mourinho set to quit Milan - with Madrid move likely
Published 22:50 13/03/10 By Paul Smith Exclusive
Jose Mourinho will weigh up his options before quitting Inter Milan in the summer.
The “Special One” has emerged as the number one target for Spanish giants Real Madrid, who crashed out of the Champions League last week for the sixth year in a row before the quarter-final stage of the tournament.
Mourinho, who is under contract to the Italian Serie A champions until 2012, can exercise his right to leave by paying £5.5million to buy out his contract in the close season.
Sources close to the Portuguese coach claim any prospective club looking to employ him will underwrite the compensation due to Inter Milan.
Both Liverpool and Manchester City are monitoring Mourinho’s situation but he has mixed thoughts on both vacancies if they should arise.
Mourinho is unlikely to take the Liverpool job with restrictive spending in place and realises that a move to City will almost certainly damage his chances of landing the Manchester United job one day.
He would relish the opportunity to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford. But as things stand it looks odds on that he will move to Madrid in the summer.
