Leicester coach Brendan Rodgers has hailed Jose Mourinho as "one of the greats" as he plans to set his brains in opposition to the Roma manager in the Europa Conference League elimination rounds on Thursday.
Rodgers' side host Roma in the principal leg as Mourinho returns for his most memorable game on English soil since being sacked by Tottenham last year.
Mourinho has gotten through a troublesome period at Roma, who sit fifth in Serie A large number of as season that has reinforced the conviction of certain pundits that the Portuguese coach is past his best.
Yet, Rodgers, who was youth group coach at Chelsea during Mourinho's most memorable spell at Stamford Bridge, is resolute his old supervisor is as yet an awe-inspiring phenomenon.
"He doesn't have anything to demonstrate to anybody," Rodgers told journalists on Wednesday. "He will generally be a victor. I can't talk any higher of him. He is one of the greats of our age.
"I have only reverence for him. I turned into a supervisor by my own doing yet I will always remember what I acquired from him as a youthful coach. I concentrated on him and watched him and around then it was a really exceptional period."
Thriving, Mourinho won the Champions League with Porto and Inter Milan and got three Premier League titles more than two spells at Chelsea.
He drove Inter to a couple of Serie A titles and won La Liga with Real Madrid, while additionally lifting Manchester United's latest prizes in 2017.
Requested what makes him rank Mourinho among the extraordinary administrators from all time, Rodgers highlighted the 59-year-old's variety of characteristics.
"He had the X component. There wasn't something single. He was splendid in such countless parts of the game," Rodgers said.
"Detail-orientated, man-the executives of the players, how he might interpret the strategic variation of the game, he had that exceptional quality I had the option to see."
Notwithstanding analysis of the Europa Conference League when it was sent off, Rodgers accepts the landmass' third-level competition has been an engaging progress in its most memorable season.
In the wake of winning Leicester's very first FA Cup last season, he has his sights on their lady European award.
"It's a lofty contest, each of the four groups will need to win it," he said.
"It's an incredible event against a top-class group. To get to the last we will give our very best. It's one more image of our development as a club."
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