Jose Mourinho makes Manchester United admission and issues promise over his next job

Jose Mourinho has explained why he feels his achievements at Manchester United were underappreciated. The Portuguese manager is currently enjoying time out of the game following his sacking by United in December. He recently revealed his focus is on returning to club management. Ahead of that imminent return, he has opened up to Sky Sports on how his public image differs from his personal life. He said: "It's probably my fault. I am very closed. When I am working I need my loneliness. The football manager on many occasions is a lonely man. Lonely with his thoughts. Lonely with his feelings. Lonely with his decisions. You can have staff and people that work with you but the keyword is a decision, only one in charge of decision-making. "So maybe it's my fault because the tendency is to close myself in a shell. Then also my fault because what people see is the 90 minutes. The way you behave in the game, the way you appear on camera. People who see me in street say: 'Oh you look younger. Oh I thought you were a little bit fatter, you look slimmer. Oh you are taller, we thought you were small'. "So I think TV changed the perspectives. I am what I am. I don't act. I see people acting. I don't act, Everything is natural. When I'm on the bench and don't celebrate a goal it's natural, I am focused on what is coming. It's natural when I grab the bottles of water and throw them. It's natural when I kick a bottle. What you see is what it is. If I have reason to smile, I smile. I love to smile. I cannot explain." Mourinho won the Europa League and lead United to a respectable second-place finish in the Premier League and now he admitted that his success were not fully appreciated. "I can just say that Manchester United time was not an easy time. I always felt that to win the Europa League was fantastic and it didn't look like it was, the way people approach it. To finish second was even more than that [success], so probably I was feeling a little bit like: 'Wow, I'm working well, I'm giving everything and I'm not getting what I think that deserves'. The only thing I can promise you is that when I have the next club, the next project, I will be so, so happy that I will walk into that press conference with a big smile. That I can promise."

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