Jose Mourinho, manager of Manchester United in the English Premier League, has become the "most-talked-about" team boss of the league on Twitter, the Daily Mirror said on Saturday.

Having once claimed to be the "special one," the 55-year-old has been the biggest traffic generator so far by being linked to 582,853 tweets in the 2018-19 season, the paper said.

By contrast, Manchester City's Pep Guardiola was connected to only 55,201 tweets, which is less than one-tenth of those about Mourinho.

By the way, the other 19 managers (except the Man U boss) in total accounted for 663,602 tweets since September 2, meaning that at least in traffic creation, Mourinho almost takes over half of the league.

Unai Emery, manager of Arsenal, comes in second with 146,600 tweets while Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp follows with 128,630. Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri was linked to over 100,000 messages (121,405) on Twitter at fourth followed by Rafa Benitez of Newcastle, whose numbers fall below 60,000.

Nineteen percent of the tweets about Mourinho are negative, only next to that of Benitez. In the "angry" category, Emery and Neil Warnock, manager of Cardiff are leading. By the way, in the 2017-18 season, three of the four managers that had the highest percentage of critical traffic, Ronald Koeman, Antonio Conte and Maurizio Pellegrino, ended up losing their jobs.

Of the four managers with the most share of "positive" tweets, three are newcomers to the league. Chelsea's Sarri leads with 32 percent followed by Slavisa Jokanovic and Nuno Espirito Santo, who are coaching newly promoted Fulham and Wolverhampton respectively.

The Daily Mirror said the data was from Twitter directly including "club hashtags, social handles, unofficial hashtags, the name and colloquialisms of clubs, managers' names and variants and club location" plus additional data from Crimson Hexagon and Twitter traffic of last season.

(Top picture: Jose Mourinho, manager of Manchester United. /VCG Photo)