Mourinho, who has been linked with a switch to RealMadrid, has openly acknowledged he is unhappy in Italian football but afterwards he insisted he has not made up his mind about next season.
It was a Champions League thriller between RealMadrid and Manchester United in April 2003 that was said to have first triggered his urge to splurge on a football team.
Beckham, who famously suffered a cut above his eye when hit by a football boot accidently kicked by Ferguson in the dressing room, left Old Trafford in 2003 for RealMadrid.