Portuguese Mourinho guided Chelsea to back-to-back Premier League trophies in 2005 and 2006, the London club's first top-flight titles since 1955, and his love for the English game has not diminished despite his sour exit in 2007.
"I was still a very young coach when I left Portugal to go to England. There couldn't be a better place to go," Mourinho said at a League Managers Association conference at England's hi-tech training complex on Monday.
"In England you feel the real passion for the game. I know that one day I will come back because English football means a lot to myself," he added.
However almost two-thirds of Real's members believe Mourinho has a negative impact on the club according to a survey published last week and, with the champions 18 points behind Barcelona in La Liga, speculation is rife about his future.
"I feel everybody involved in the game should experience English football because it's a special feeling. You really enjoy being a football professional there," said Mourinho.
"I know the history of football. I know what the English FA means to the world of football. I know that the FA Cup was the first competition organised in the world of football in the 1870s.
"I know what I felt when I had to go up the Wembley stairs to get the FA Cup," he added, having won the world's oldest competition in 2007.
"The FA Cup represents the passion of football; it represents clean football; it represents the good smell of football."
Mourinho leads his beleaguered Real side in the King's Cup quarter-finals later on Tuesday against Valencia knowing the vultures will circle if his side slip up.
