Will the Manchester United job be Jose Mourinho's toughest task yet?
As Jose Mourinho's
appointment as Manchester United boss draws near, Adam Bate wonders
whether the Portuguese coach has ever taken on anything quite like it.
Is this Mourinho's biggest job yet?
Porto might have been fifth when Jose Mourinho arrived in early 2002 but that was only ever going to be a temporary position for a team that had spent the past two decades in the top two. Every job that he has taken since has been at a team in the top three at the time.
Even Uniao de Leiria had finished fifth in the previous season when Mourinho arrived in July 2001. As a result, he's never taken on a club in a lower position than that which Manchester United find themselves in right now - out of the Champions League and playing catch up on their rivals.
