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Jose Mourinho eager to regain magic touch with return to European summit

Jose Mourinho dislikes looking back at his last adventure in the Champions League, where he was once a domineering figure. It needs a longer and longer memory to recall it. For more than three years, club football’s most glamorous competition has been rolling on nicely without him.

As he approached another landmark in his storied career – Wednesday's Europa League final between his Roma and Sevilla – Mourinho reflected on his many past employers. He singled out Tottenham Hotspur, his previous stop-off before Rome, as the club for which he retains least affection. The spell was trophyless, the exit fractious and the European campaigns ended badly: a 3-0 defeat to Dinamo Zagreb in the Europa League a month before he was sacked; a 3-0 loss at RB Leipzig the last time he stood to attention on a touchline while the Champions League anthem was being played.

Since then, there has been a global pandemic, two of Mourinho’s exes – Chelsea and Real Madrid – have lifted the European Cup, and Internazionale, one of the two clubs he guided to the prize, have reached its final. Mourinho, the self-styled Special One, might see all this and fear that in the so-called ‘Big Cup’, the Champions League, he is not as relevant as he used to be.

Avenues back into the competition have been closing down, too: at the weekend, Roma’s slender prospects of finishing in the top four of Serie A vanished with defeat to Fiorentina. Wednesday represents the last chance for Roma to scramble in, via the stand-by ticket that comes to the winner of the Europa League.

But lose to Sevilla in Budapest and the temptation for Mourinho to leave Rome and explore the managerial marketplace will grow. His Roma contract expires in 2024 but that has not made him deaf to

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