Jose Mourinho leaves Turkish club Fenerbahce following Champions League playoff loss against Benfica

It’s over between Fenerbahce And Jose Mourinho. Two days after losing 1-0 in the second stage of their Champions League play-off against BenficaThe team where he started his coaching career, the Portuguese manager said goodbye to the Turkish side, announced the club on Friday morning. Mourinho took the lead of Fenerbahce in the summer of 2024, finished in second place in the table in 2024-25 season behind Rivals Galatasaray and were eliminated in the round of 16 of the UEFA Europa League against Rangers after punishments. Only two games in the new League season (one win and one draw) and confirmed with Champions League elimination against Benfica, the club and the Portuguese coach have decided to separate and leave the Turkish side only a few days before the end of the summer transfer window.

As with many of the term of office of Mourinho, his enchantment at Fenerbahce will not only be reminded for his results, but also for his behavior outside the field. On April 2 he Galatasaray grabbed the nose Head coach Okan Buruk after Fenerbahce was beaten out of the Turkish cup by their heated rival when Galatasaray won 2-1, and a few weeks before that incident he was accused of racism By the same Galatasaray when he used the word “monkeys” to describe the opponent’s bank. In His first and only full season at fenerbahce, mourinho also accused the referees and galatasaray of fraud and corruption in the league on multiple occasions, and that accusation led the turkish fa to appoint a for the heateded dery tokace toky dery tokace tokytace tokytace toky, Ready to Intervene on the Sidelines of the Rams Park, The Home Stadium of Galatasaray.

After coaching teams such as Real Madrid, Inter, Chelsea And as Roma, Mourinho decided to become a member of the Turkish side, but then failed to qualify for the competition phase of the Champions League this season, a disappointment that both parties led to end their working relationship after only one season.

What is the next step for Mourinho?

After his fenerbahce experience we can expect the special one to return to one of the top five European Leagues, althegh maybe not until the summer 2026. Before moving to fenerbahce, he coached as roma from 2021 to 2024, BUTERE HERERE EENLE ELLOW, See Him Back Coaching Imediately In The Premier League OR in Another Top European League in the Short Term, Considering How Early It is in The Season and How Many Managerial Changes Happened at Many Top Clubs this summer. There is of course one remarkable exception. Rumors about a possible comeback at Manchester United will certainly increase in the coming days after the disappointing start of the season under Ruben Amorim, but it is difficult to predict the future of Mourinho, consider how unpredictable his last decisions were when he became a member of Roma and Fenerbahce.

Although he says that he still wants to coach a club several times in the future, we should not exclude the possibility of seeing him the manager of the Portuguese national team after the World Cup 2026. The Portuguese FA wanted him in January 2023 after the World Cup 2022 in Qatar, but the special decided to stay in AS Roma and refused the chance. Portugal named Roberto Martinez and this summer the UEFA Nations League won from 2025, which means that the nation will certainly not see any other management change prior to the World Cup of next summer in the United States, Canada and Mexico. If things do not go in the right direction in the tournament next summer, the name of Mourinho will certainly be back in the heads of the Portuguese FA to start a new cycle that will also lead to the 2030 World Cup organized by Portugal, Spain and Morocco.