Jose Mourinho predicts Premier League and Champions League winners on Rio Ferdinand's podcast... and singles out one former side he would 'love' to win silverware this year

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Jose Mourinho has named the teams that he backs to win the Premier League and Champions League this season.

He also revealed which of his former sides he would ‘love’ to go on and claim honours this campaign.

The Portuguese coach is out of work having been dismissed by Roma in January, once again succumbing to the third-season syndrome that has stalked his career.

Appearing on Rio Ferdinand’s FIVE YouTube channel, he regaled viewers with talk of his immediate future, his struggle to gut the Manchester United dressing room of rotten eggs, and his preferred midfielder from England’s golden generation.

On top of all that, he gave his definitive predictions on the Premier League and Champions League.

Jose Mourinho has named the teams he thinks stand a chance in the Premier League and Chamnpions League

Predictably, he had Manchester City down as contenders in both competitions and favoured them for the Premier League

He also named Liverpool as the other side who could win top honours on the domestic front

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On the domestic front, he briefly mulled over Manchester City and Liverpool, before putting his eggs in Pep Guardiola’s basket by favouring his former rival’s side.

‘Champions League, I would say City or Real Madrid,’ the Football.com global ambassador said.

‘If somebody outside [those two] wins it, for me, it would be a great surprise.

‘I would love Real Madrid to win it again for the club and for Carlo [Ancelotti]. I don’t know, Bayern Munich can do it, Paris Saint-Germain.

‘Looking at potential, I think City/Liverpool for the Premier [League], City/Real for the Champions [League].’

In fairness to Mourinho, his three former Premier League sides are all out of contention in the competition, and would appear to be outside the reckoning for  England’s top flight either.

His interview with Ferdinand and Stephen Howson was wide-ranging and at times emotional.

He admitted that his exit from Roma, where he won the Europa Conference League and reached a Europa League final, was the one that ‘hurt’ him ‘the most.’

There was no mention of Arsenal for either tournament – even though they are level with City domestically and in the second round in the Champions League

Mourinho said he would ‘love’ Real Madrid to win the Champions League for a 15th time

‘I gave everything, I gave my heart, I gave even some options that could be considered not very clever from the professional point of view,’ he said.

‘I refused some great working opportunities. The first one was very hard to refuse because it was Portugal national team, probably the best Portugal national team ever and three years before a World Cup.

‘Then I had a big one from Saudi and I didn’t hide it at the time because it was really big.

‘I did it – normally I am very pragmatic in my choices, very professional in my choices and I try to be very emotionally controlled and you could see that when I left other clubs after winning finals.

‘In this case I was not pragmatic, I was emotional and I gave everything. So in the end when I left, I left hurt. I had the great feeling that I gave so much happiness to the people.

‘Two European finals in a row doesn’t happen too often, especially in a club like Roma which doesn’t have a big history of European success.

‘Then I was walking in the street and the people were like “take us to Dublin, take us to Dublin” [for this year’s Europa League final] and so I had that in my mind, the third European final in a row.

His sacking from Roma in January was the one that ‘hurt me the most’, he revealed

‘But you have to respect, the owner is always the owner. It’s not the first time I left a club, it is probably the first time I am feeling it in a different way.

‘You move on, you try to learn from the experience be better for the next one.’

All three parts of the interview are available on FIVE’s YouTube channel – The full interview with Jose Mourinho will be available on @FIVEUK’s audio platforms, Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts.