Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has said he will not stop assistant Rui Faria from succeeding Arsene Wenger as Arsenal manager.
Recall that Wenger will be leaving the North London side at the end of the term after staying 22 years with Rui touted to take over.
However, Mourinho has said he will not stop him from moving over to the Emirates if the move pulls through.
“I think so, yes. I don’t know [if he wants to be a manager},” Mourinho told Sun UK when asked whether Faria would be a contender to succeed Arsene Wenger. “You ask me if I think it would be a good fit and I say ‘yes.’”
According to the Portuguese, “it because more than my assistant, he is my friend. If my friend has the possibility one day of a big job I would help him to pack and to carry the bags and to wish him luck.
“So, if one day that is going to happen the first one to be happy would probably be myself because I met him when he was a kid in his university and we were together for 18 years, so he is a big friend, more than an assstant.”