• Jose Mourinho says he loved living in a hotel during his tenure at Manchester United because the only thing he can cook is "fried eggs and sausages."
• The Portuguese spent 895 nights in a $1,040 per night room at The Lowry Hotel between May 2016 and December 2018, according to the Manchester Evening News.
• "I would have to clean, I don't want to," he said, according to The Telegraph. "I would have to iron, I don't know how to. I have to cook, I would cook fried eggs and sausages — that's the only thing I can do."
• Mourinho took charge of Tottenham Hotspur, his third club in England, on November 20, and has since won all three games he has taken charge of.
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Jose Mourinho is excellent at managing football teams.

Cooking and cleaning, however? Not his forte, apparently.

That is why the newly appointed Tottenham Hotspur boss says he preferred living in a hotel during his stay at Manchester United rather than in a home on his own.

Mourinho managed United between May 2016 and December 2018, during which time he lodged permanently in a luxury apartment in The Lowry Hotel, Salford.

His family remained in London, and his failure to plant permanent roots in the city led to accusations he was unhappy in Manchester.

However, Mourinho insists that wasn't the case, and staying in catered accommodation, which was a 12 minute drive from Old Trafford, was the perfect foil for his lack of culinary expertise.

"I would be unhappy if I was in a house on my own. I would have to clean, I don't want that," he said, according to The Telegraph.

"I would have to clean, I don't want to. I would have to iron, I don't know how to. I have to cook, I would cook fried eggs and sausages — that's the only thing I can do. I would be very unhappy."

Mourinho paid around $1,040 per night to stay in one of the Lowry's "Riverside suites", according to the Manchester Evening News.

And having spent a total of 895 nights there, according to Quartz, his bill upon check out would have surpassed $930,000.

However it appears to have been a price worth paying, with the luxury dwelling having catered to Mourinho's every need.

"I lived in an amazing apartment, it was not a room. It was mine all the time, it was not like after one week I had to leave. No, it was mine. I left everything there, I had my television, my books, my computer. It was a flat, with 'bring me a coffee latte, please' or 'I don't want to go down for dinner, bring my dinner up.'

"I was watching football or doing work with one of my assistants and I would ask 'bring us food.' I had everything. If I was in an apartment alone it would be much more difficult. I was fine, more than fine."

Mourinho took charge of Tottenham, his third club in England after Chelsea and United, on November 20, and has since won all three games he has taken charge of.

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JOSE MOURINHO had his stroll outside his London home interrupted - by a fan appearing to give him tactical advice.

The pair shook hands on the pavement before the fan seemed to launch into a tirade of tips for the former Manchester United manager.

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The casually-dressed Special One, 55, looked somewhat taken aback by the passer-by's pearls of wisdom, but had a wry smile across his face when he walked off after their exchange.

Mourinho is readjusting to life without a job after being sacked by United last month.

He is understood to be living in his West London home and is back in the capital after returning to Portugal over the Christmas season.

He famously spent the entirety of his two-and-a-half-year spell in charge at Old Trafford living in the Lowry Hotel.

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Mourinho's former side take on Reading in the FA Cup Third Round this lunchtime with two flops of his flops will start at Old Trafford.

Interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed Alexis Sanchez and Romelu Lukaku will both start the game.

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Lukaku came off the bench in the wins over Bournemouth and Newcastle to score but is set to lead the line from the outset today.

Sanchez, meanwhile, has not started a game since United beat Juventus in the Champions League two months ago.

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He made his first appearance under Solskjaer on Wednesday, coming on for the final half-hour at St James' Park.

But United are without Paul Pogba who is ruled out with a leg injury following Jonjo Shelvey's shocking tackle this week.

Shelvey escaped any punishment from the FA despite raking his studs down the back of Pogba's leg, which sparked an understandably angry reaction from the Frenchman.

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Jose Mourinho has been sacked by Tottenham – just six days before the club’s EFL Cup final against Manchester City.

Mourinho, who previously managed Manchester United, Chelsea and Real Madrid, replaced Mauricio Pochettino as Spurs boss in November 2019.

The Portuguese boss signed a four-year contract with the club but leaves north London after less than 18 months in charge.

Tottenham are currently seventh in the Premier League – five points outside of the top four – and face runaway leaders Man City in the EFL Cup final on Sunday.

In a statement, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy confirmed Mourinho’s coaching staff of Joao Sacramento, Nuno Santos, Carlos Lalin and Giovanni Cerra had also been relieved of their duties.

‘Jose and his coaching staff have been with us through some of our most challenging times as a club,’ Levy said. ‘Jose is a true professional who showed enormous resilience during the pandemic.

‘On a personal level I have enjoyed working with him and regret that things have not worked out as we both had envisaged.

‘He will always be welcome here and we should like to thank him and his coaching staff for their contribution.’

Ryan Mason, who played for England and Tottenham before he was forced to retire due to a head injury in 2018, will take temporary charge of Spurs.

Mourinho had been fighting to save his job since Spurs’ demoralising Europa League exit at the hands of Dinamo Zagreb in March.

In his first campaign, Mourinho took Tottenham from 14th in the Premier League to finish sixth – securing Europa League qualification.

Earlier this season, Spurs briefly threatened to mount a title challenge before slipping down the table and outside of the Champions League places.

Their campaign reached its nadir in March when they blew a two-goal lead against Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb to crash out of the Europa League.

Mourinho’s last game in charge of Tottenham was a 2-2 draw at Everton on Friday.

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