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Brazil is planning to replace Tite with Jose Mourinho following the surprise World Cup exit, and has “opened talks with the boss of Roma” after Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti snubbed them.
Brazil is planning to bring in Jose Mourinho as its new manager and has reportedly started talks with the Roma boss after Carlo Ancelotti turned down the job.
The five-time World Cup winners were among the favorites to win this year’s tournament in Qatar, but Tite’s team bowed out early in the quarterfinal against Croatia on penalties.
The Brazil coach then sensationally resigned just two hours after the shock defeat, ending his six-year stint in charge of the national team.
Brazil is planning to bring in Jose Mourinho as its new manager and has reportedly opened talks.
Carlo Ancelotti turned down the role for Brazil as he intends to finish his contract at Real Madrid, which runs until 2024.
He leaves a vacant position at the helm of one of football’s biggest nations and Mourinho is widely seen as someone who could take over.
Brazilian FA president Ednaldo Rodrigues is understood to have sent a representative to Europe with the aim of finding the best foreign coaches available.
Ancelotti, who has a contract with Real Madrid until 2024, was seen as an option for Brazil but does not want to leave the Spanish giants before then unless he is sacked.
And now, the Republic reports that Brazil has opened preliminary talks with Jorge Mendes about a move for Mourinho.
In 2017, when Mourinho was manager of Manchester United, the strategist admitted that leading Brazil in the future would be “exciting”.
Tite, who was in charge of Brazil for six years, stepped down as coach after the country’s shock exit from the World Cup.
Mourinho is also strongly linked to getting the Portugal job after Fernando Santos was sacked.
“I think after Manchester United I need an easier job than Manchester United, and coaching the Brazilian team should be more difficult,” he said at the time.
“Obviously it would be exciting, any coach wants to work with the best clubs and with the best. The Brazilian team is obviously a successful leader, obviously talented, no matter the generation, talent always appears.
But I have to confess that it must be difficult, in every Brazilian there is a coach, in every journalist there is a coach who is better than the coach. I think it must be a difficult country to work in, but also an exciting one.’
There has been a lot of speculation about the future of the former Chelsea manager, as Portugal, his native country, is also interested in wresting him from the Italian giants following the sacking of Fernando Santos.
The latest reports in Italy indicate that Roma do not want Mourinho to leave the club, and the coach has a contract until 2024.
Last week, Corriere dello Sport reported that Mendes met federation president Fernando Soares Gomes da Silva to discuss Mourinho’s current plans.
Roma are keeping his attention for now, but hope the club will not get in the way of his desire to lead the national team by June 2023.
Mourinho will speak to Roma’s owners to find a solution, and it is believed that the Portuguese is likely to request the termination of his contract with the club a year early to take charge of Portugal.