Jose Mourinho, the manager of Roma, has stated that his old club, Manchester United, is unlikely to win championships.

The Portuguese stated that it was ridiculous to expect him to win titles for Manchester United and Tottenham.

Since Sir Alex Ferguson's final season in charge in 2013, the Red Devils have not won the Premier League title in nine years.

They only won the FA Cup in 2016 under Louis van Gaal, who was fired shortly after.

Van Gaal was replaced by Mourinho, who would go on to win the Community Shield, Carabao Cup and Europa League.

The former Chelsea, Real Madrid, and Inter Milan boss was ultimately sacked in December 2018 with United 11 points adrift of the top four and suffered a similar fate in his next job at Tottenham.

Asked if both he and Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti had silenced their critics, Mourinho instead flipped the question and suggested the issue was never with their coaching ability but rather the clubs they were at.

“You know, people they saw me taking up jobs where they thought that I could win trophies but they were not jobs where we were expected to lift trophies.

“But when you have such a winning career on a cyclical basis so to speak, you can expect that, people can say that.

“Personally I’m not worried about this [being replaced by younger coaches]. I do not think and focus on the generations, I focus on quality.”