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Saudi Arabia offers Mourinho £100m to coach national team

Roma manager, Jose Mourinho, has reportedly been offered more than £100 million to coach Saudi Arabia national team in a two-year deal.

The deal, if accepted, would make Mourinho the highest-paid manager ever.

According to Daily Mail, Cristiano Ronaldo’s club, Al-Nassr, are also interested in Mourinho with current manager Rudi Garcia likely to leave at the end of the season.

The 60-year-old Portuguese joined Roma in 2021 and his current contract runs with the Serie A giants until 2024.

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However, there have been disputes over transfers and frustrations at Roma’s performances this season.

With his future still up in the air at the Italian club, Mourinho has now been directly approached by “top management” to head the Saudi Arabia national team.

The deal includes £52 million (€60 million) each year and two options for Mourinho.

The former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur manager would be able to tear up the contract at the end of the first season or extend it until 2026 – the year of the North American World Cup.

Mourinho was sacked by Tottenham in April 2021 after just 17 months in charge of the Premier League club, following dismissals from Chelsea – in his second spell at the club – and Manchester United.

His appointment as Roma manager was the Portuguese’s second spell in Serie A, after he spent two seasons with Inter Milan before leaving to join Real Madrid in 2010.

Mourinho won consecutive Serie A titles with Inter, completing a treble that included a Champions League triumph in his final season with the club.

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