The coach of Fenerbahce, José Mourinho, has refused to confirm whether he will remain next season after the 1-0 defeat on Sunday at home to Besiktas left Fener in second place in the classification and eight points drift from the leaders of Super Lig Galatasaray with four remaining games.
Mourinho joined Fenerbahce in a two -year contract last summer with the aim of taking the club to a first -league title in a decade.
“I'm not talking about the next season,” said Mourinho Postmatch. “These are things to speak internally and not with the media. If there is anything that I have been absolutely perfect, it is my respect for me [club] President, my board, not to take the internal things of the public domain. “
Mourinho also refused to comment on Galatasaray, who is ongoing to win his third consecutive title of the League.
The former Chelsea manager has spoken throughout the season about the “toxic” environment in the Super Lig, claiming that Fenerbahce's main rivals receive a special treatment of the referees.
“I don't talk about them,” he said when asked about Galatasaray on Sunday. “I speak of the championship and I have done it during the season.”
Mourinho had said in the past that he was alarmed by what he called “a system” in the National League that is deeply rooted.
“I don't change a single word about what I said during the season,” he added on Sunday. “One of the problems that Fenerbahce has is exactly the difficulty of dealing mentally with the power of the system. It is something that is stronger than quality … it is really powerful. Players feel it and know that it is completely impossible to achieve what they want to achieve.”
Meanwhile, Mourinho was asked what advice he would give the former Manchester United Ole Gunnar Solskjær manager, who took over Besiktas in January.
“Ole has already been here for a few months,” he said. “He has enough and intelligent experience to learn what he has to learn. I am nobody to give him any kind of advice. We have enough so that he is not on the moon because he won a derby and so that he is not in hell because I have lost a derby. We respect each other well. I think we also like them.”
Mourinho, however, accepted the criticisms of Fenerbahce fans after another defeat of Derby in the National League. Fenerbahce has failed to overcome its two great rivals in the city, Galatasaray and Besitkas, this season.
“It is normal in this culture when the results are not the results that people expect reactions,” said Mourinho. “I will never be critical of that. I am open to critics, it is part of my life.”
