Mourinho set for Benfica return after Lage dismissal

Jose Mourinho is connected the verge of returning to management, with Benfica expected to name him arsenic their caller caput manager earlier the weekend. The determination follows the dismissal of Bruno Lage aft the club’s daze Champions League decision to Qarabag.

The Lisbon giants had initially considered Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim, but reports from Portugal bespeak that a woody with Mourinho has already been struck, with lone last contractual details to beryllium agreed.

Mourinho, 62, concisely managed Benfica astatine the commencement of his vocation successful 2000, taking complaint of 11 matches earlier departing. He went connected to execute large occurrence with Porto, wherever helium won some the UEFA Cup and Champions League, earlier moving to Chelsea and aboriginal managing Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Roma and, astir recently, Fenerbahce.

Benfica president Rui Costa confirmed the urgency of the club’s determination aft their European collapse. “Regarding the adjacent coach, we expect to person the caller 1 connected the seat astatine Vila das Aves adjacent Saturday,” Costa told Portuguese media.

Lage came nether occurrence for throwing distant a two-goal pb astatine location to Qarabag, with the effect seen arsenic a large stroke to Benfica’s ambitions of re-establishing home dominance.

If confirmed, Mourinho’s assignment would people a homecoming for 1 of Portugal’s astir decorated coaches, arsenic Benfica question to dependable their play and reassert their spot among Europe’s elite.

The station Mourinho acceptable for Benfica instrumentality aft Lage dismissal appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.