Mourinho's third season at United was dominated by media reports of a rift with record signing Paul Pogba, before the owners pulled the plug on his tenure with the team sitting sixth in the Premier League.
"You now have a generation of players who are not just players but the whole package," the 56-year-old told the Telegraph.
"You have the player, the family, the agent, the entourage, the director of communication ... When you have a player you have all these distractions.
"And if there is no empathy in the structure of the club you get into so many contradictions that it is really, really difficult to work."
Since leading Porto to Champions League triumph in 2004, Mourinho has managed Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, and United, winning a total of 20 major trophies.
He said his next destination could be a longer-term project.
"If it is a club without ambition I wouldn't go," he added.
"That is my second item (of requirement). My first item is structural empathy. I want to work with people that I love. People I want to work with, that I am happy to work with, with whom I share the same ideas."
(Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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