Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho admits he is 'lonely' and has no friends as pressure mounts up

Jose Mourinho admits he feels lonely but insists football is his world

JOSE MOURINHO admits he is lonely in the modern world of football and feels out of place.

 

The Chelsea manager has come under pressure after a difficult start to the season and some reports suggest he could lose his job.

Away from results on the pitch, he has courted controversy off of it for criticising fellow managers and referees.

He was handed a suspended one-match ban as well as a £50,000 fine by the FA.

 

And it appears the Portuguese is beginning to feel the heat.

"I feel lots of affection, more than I could imagine. I feel affection from my players, lots of people in the street. I have lots of affection," Mourinho told The Irish Times.

"It's the football world that is changing. I feel that I am a strange case because my world is football. I love it, I love my job. 

 

Mourinho has courted controversy on and off the pitch this season

"This is the job I always wanted and I dedicate myself to it.

"But I don't belong, I don't belong to what Desmond Morris called(in the book , The Soccer Tribe) many years ago 'The Tribe of Football'.

"I belong to the tribe in the Desmond Morris concept of the tribe of football, but in the modern concept of the tribe of football, I don't belong. 

 

"I live in a different world. I'm not with the power. I'm a lonely guy in this modern world of football. 

"I do my work. I'm not a politician, I'm not a PR, I don't care what people think about me. I don't, you know, I'm just [am] what I am. 

"When I am in a great moment it looks like nothing's happened; when I am in a bad moment, I pay for this a little bit. 

"I don't have many friends in the football world."