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JOSE Mourinho is sure he will return to management, but the former Manchester United boss is waiting for a job that will make him "happy".
The 55-year-old, who was sacked by United in December, is currently working as a pundit on BeIN Sports alongside former Sky hosts Richard Keys and Andy Gray.
Speaking as part of the broadcaster’s Premier League coverage, which also featured former Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink on the pundits’ panel, Mourinho claimed he was enjoying working for the media.
He said: "First of all, I’m happy with these three weeks. I’m happy with this experience, I’m going to have other experiences that normally I cannot have.
"I was already invited to go to a super ice hockey match in Russia, which is something that I’m going to do for the first time. I’m really happy with it.
"But I know me, and I know that by the end of March I am struggling a little bit with my happiness. I know my natures."
Asked if he will work in England again, Mourinho added: "I don’t know, it depends. As I was saying, I will analyse things. I don’t like to speak about it, but I refused already three options because I didn’t feel it is what I want.
"I am going to be calm in this. The more time I have, the better I can prepare.
"I always say that my arrival at Inter (Milan) was perfect. I left Chelsea by November, December. By the end of February, I signed my contract with Inter. From February until June I was preparing myself for that job.
"(It was an) extreme situation where in four months I learned the language that is still the language, a part of Portuguese, that I speak more fluently because I really studied for that. I studied the club, I studied the opponents, I studied the league. I was preparing myself for that.
"The time that I am without a job in football, I am going to prepare myself for the next, but the next must be something that makes me really happy with a challenge.
"Apart from that, I enjoy a little bit of my life, I see the other side. I am really enjoying what we’re doing, a couple of days ago in the Asian Cup."
A chuckling Gray then asked Mourinho: "How are the lessons going, the ones you’re taking now?" Keys, also grinning wildly, added: "Sehr gut, sehr gut", which is German for "very good, very good".
Keys and Gray’s gag will only increase speculation that Mourinho could be the next manager of Bayern Munich, who are six points off the top of the Bundesliga under current boss Niko Kovac.
Mourinho’s biographer Manuel Pereira recently told SPOX.com: "Jose worked in Portugal, England, Spain and Italy. The Bundesliga is still missing.
"If (Bayern director Karl-Heinz) Rummenigge calls him tomorrow and offers him to manage Bayern, I guarantee that he would accept."