New Roma head coach Jose Mourinho believes he has been a victim of his own success.
Former Inter boss Mourinho will return to Serie A in 2021-22 after being appointed by Roma following his Tottenham sacking in April.
Mourinho, who guided Inter to an unprecedented treble in 2009-10, replaces Paulo Fonseca in Rome, where the Giallorossi have not won a league title since 2001.
The Portuguese enjoyed stunning success at the start of his managerial career, winning seven league titles and two Champions Leagues in eight seasons across spells at Porto, Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid.
Since the start of the 2012-13 campaign, however, he has won just one league title – the Premier League with Chelsea in 2014-15.
Indeed, Mourinho won only 51.2 per cent of his matches at Tottenham and left without lifting a single trophy.
In an extract from a new book called Stay Crazy and Hungry , reported in Marca, Mourinho thinks his early success contributed to a focus on winning which has not always served him well in recent years.
I ve been a victim of myself and, if I could, it would be one of the things I wouldn t repeat, Mourinho said.
I won, won and won and I entered into a kind of dynamic where not winning seemed like the end of the world.
I, myself, because of my personality, made out that the training, the games and the job were all to win, win, win, and then, when I came to situations where it was very difficult to win, which for other coaches is something acceptable, in my case it was never enough.
Not winning was a failure, but that isn t true.
