10) “I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.”

9) “After all that has happened this season – and that is a lot – I’ve reached the conclusion that I am a good loser.”

8) “Look, I’m a coach. I’m not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.”

7) “Young players are a little bit like melons. Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100 per cent sure that the melon is good. Sometimes you have beautiful melons but they don’t taste very good and some other melons are a bit ugly and when you open them, the taste is fantastic… One thing is youth football, one thing is professional football. The bridge is a difficult one to cross and they have to play with us and train with us for us to taste the melon…For example, Scott Sinclair, the way he played against Arsenal and Man United, we know the melon we have.”

6) “Ricardo Carvalho seems to have problems understanding things, maybe he should have an IQ test, or go to a mental hospital or something”

5) “I saw their players and manager go for a lap of honour after losing to us in their last home game. In Portugal if you do this, they throw bottles at you.”

4) “Makelele is not a football player, Makelele is a slave”

3) “I am no longer Chelsea coach and I do not have to defend them any more, so I think it is correct if I say Drogba is a diver.”

2) “If I wanted to have an easy job… I would have stayed at Porto – beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me

1) “Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.