Jose Mourinho has shot down suggestions that he is clamouring for a Premier League return and is furious at the English media.

The Time reported that Mourinho allegedly said that "my football is English football" and that "I am ready for the next phase of my career", causing many to think that he was waiting for Sir Alex Ferguson to vacate his throne at Old Trafford.

However, the Portuguese manager has rubbished these quotes, saying that they were lifted out of a book about Ferguson and his words were taken out of context.

"I met the journalist Patrick Barclay [the author of the article] some time ago to give my interview for a book dedicated to Sir Alex Ferguson," Mourinho told Inter's official website.

"I didn't talk about current events with this journalist, but exclusively on how managing in different countries has characterised my professional career.

"I underlined the historical and cultural differences and not my personal preferences, in order to show that an experience such as Sir Alex Ferguson's with Manchester United is an extraordinary exception in our profession.

"You can also read a correct translation of my phrases in quotation marks - I said that I love Inter, that I'm enjoying Inter and that I'm working for Inter: this is the reality and I will live as such until the end of the contract that binds me to the club.

"I'm very sorry that a sincere tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson has been used in fragments to provide information in such a different way that it required my intervention."