Mourinho close to agreeing deal with Portuguese club 🇵🇹 | OneFootball

Jose Mourinho is very close to returning to work in his home country.

According to information from CNN Portugal, and Fabrizio Romano, the transfer wizard, the coach has reached a preliminary agreement to take over as technical director of Benfica.

Only final adjustments to the contract remain for the Special One to be officially announced by the Lisbon club.

The move marks Mourinho's return to Portuguese football, more than two decades after leaving the country for international success.

An idol of FC Porto fans, with whom he won the Champions League in 2004, he can now land at the rival to try to put the Eagles back on the path to European titles.

The last job of Jose Mourinho was as coach of Fenerbahçe, a club that he left on August 29, 2025.

This was the third job ended in just four years. Before the Turkish giant, the Portuguese had directed Roma, where he won the Conference League in 2022 and reached the final of the Europa League in 2023, but was dismissed in January 2024 after a negative streak.

Lage dismissed after stumbling in the Champions

The negotiation for Mourinho comes right after the departure of Bruno Lage, former Botafogo coach.

The Portuguese coach could not resist the defeat by 3 to 2 against Qarabag, from Azerbaijan, at the Estádio da Luz, in Lisbon, for the inaugural round of the Champions League stage.

The result was considered disastrous by the board and accelerated the change in technical command.

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