Third-season syndrome: how José Mourinho slumped at Madrid and Chelsea

Poor results on the pitch reflected the Portuguese’s increasingly fractious relationships off it, and it seems to be happening again at Manchester United

On the day José Mourinho was presented to the media on his return to Chelsea, he described himself as “the happy one”. It was a pointed remark: in Spain he hadn’t been, not for a long time. His departure, after three years, was overdue and few at Real Madrid fought to keep him – not even those who thought he was in the right and that they might miss him. Mourinho could not go on and nor could the club. His situation had become unsustainable, summed up in a comment made in 2013, towards the end of his third season: “I want to be where people love me.”

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