Jose Mourinho has described his admiration of Nottingham Forest's former manager Brian Clough.

Clough won back-to-back European titles with Forest in 1979 and 1980 and Mourinho sees similarities between the Englishman and himself.

Writing the foreword in a new book on Clough's successes entitled "I Believe in Miracles", Mourinho said: "We all probably remember Clough's best quotes. 'I wouldn't say I am the best football manager there is,' he used to say, 'but I am in the top one.' I love that line."

"He had all that self- esteem and big self-belief. He was very confident about himself, and from what I know about him he was very comfortable with the attention."

"Maybe because Brian Clough was such a huge personality, with so much charisma, everyone remembers his quotes and the stories and a few people forget his talents."