Jose Mourinho forced to deny trying to land Rafa Benitez's job

Jan 14 2008 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Daily Post

A REPRESENTATIVE of Jose Mourinho has angrily denied the former Chelsea manager is trying to engineer a move to Liverpool.

Mourinho has been linked with several high-profile positions since leaving Chelsea in September but agent Eladio Parames insists the media speculation is not of Mourinho’s own making.

Reports over the past few weeks have suggested Mourinho is interested in taking over from under-fire Rafael Benitez at Liverpool should the Spaniard get the sack.

Parames said in a statement: “These are aberrant and heinous ideas.

“Some media have consistently linked Jose Mourinho’s name with various clubs without, as they are ethically bound to do, trying to determine the truth of these reports.”

The statement insisted that neither Mourinho nor his agent Jorge Mendes had had contact with any club regarding a possible return to management for the self-titled ‘Special One’.

And Parames slammed the media for taking advantage of Benitez’s current problems.

“It is unacceptable that the unscrupulous press uses the name of Mourinho when they try to create or profit from current controversial situations in different teams as has happened recently,” he added.