Some commentators in Spain were angry that the Portuguese was so arrogant as to talk of when he would leave Real Madrid – it is widely perceived as disrespectful to one of the world’s biggest teams.
“You don’t translate ‘a couple of years’ literally, it’s an expression you use in the English language to mean in a few years, not exactly two,” Mourinho told the club’s website (www.realmadrid.com).
“It could be two, three, four, 20, or you never know.”
