ROME - It has been announced that Portuguese manager José Mourinho is to take over at Roma next season, after the club made it known on Tuesday morning that current manager Paulo Fonseca, also Portuguese, would leave at the end of the season, after two years at the club. 

  Roma have struggled recently, going six matches without a win, and their current position of seventh in Serie A is not up to their usual standards. From 2013 to 2018 they finished no lower than third. 

  Mourinho is thought by many, particularly Chelsea fans, to be one of the best managers currently plying their trade, though has been out of a job since April when he was sacked by Tottenham - a sacking that the club managed to bury in the middle of the Super League furore. 

  His time at Tottenham was disappointingly trophy-less for someone who has won at least one trophy at every club he’s managed, including three Premier League trophies (with Chelsea), two Scudetti (with Inter Milan) and a La Liga (with Real Madrid).

  Roma’s Portuguese general manager, Tiago Pinto, is thought to be a big fan of Mourinho, contacting him a week after his sacking from the North London club, and after meetings with the club’s president and vice-president, Dan and Ryan Friedkin, in Portugal, he was given a three year contract, despite not having stayed at a club for longer than two and a half seasons since leaving Real Madrid in 2013.

  Mourinho has also been promised a big say in club transfers, and he and Pinto will begin rebuilding the squad for the start of next season. 

  Following Juventus’ unseating as the long time reigning champions, Roma will no doubt be energised in their ambitions to compete for the Serie A title next season. Mourinho said of Roma’s ambitious plans, “It is the same ambition and drive that has always motivated me and together we want to build a winning project over the upcoming years. The incredible passion of the Roma fans convinced me to accept the job and I cannot wait to start next season.”

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