“These are not my views and I apologise for this. I am fully supportive of the manager and my team-mates. We are all giving our everything to improve the results.” — Manchester Unitedcaptain Antonio Valencia, apologizing for liking an Instagram post “without reading the text” that called for his manager, Jose Mourinho, to be fired […]
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What They're Saying: Paul Scholes
“He’s constantly having a go at players. He’s having a go at those above him because he’s not getting what he wants. I think his mouth is probably out of control and I think he’sembarrassing the club.” — Former Manchester United star Paul Scholes on current United manager Jose Mourinho before United’s latest setback, a […]
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What They're Saying: Chris Sutton
“Mourinho is a changed personality from the charismatic one that first came over in 2004. He is picking silly, personal squabbles. Is it disastrous for Manchester United at the moment? No. But is thiswhat Mourinho’s remit was, to come in and finish behind City and not push for major trophies? He is rattled. He looks […]
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What They're Saying: Antonio Conte
“My wife and daughter start to be worried when they don’t see me very active because that means I’m not happy. Even my father does. He watched the game against Watford and phoned meup afterwards to say, ‘I didn’t see you with the right anger, with the right passion. You finished the game with a […]
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What They're Saying: Antonio Conte
“You show you are a little man. A little man. You don’t know very well [what] is the situation. But I know him very well in the past. In the past he was a little man in many circumstances,is a little man in the present and for sure he will be a little man in […]
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What They're Saying: Pep Guardiola
“Last season was the same. We won because we were better. In all departments, we were better.” — Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, in response to comments by rival managerManchester United Jose Mourinho, who said his team deserved a penalty kick in the 2-1 loss to City, which now leads second-place United by 11 points […]
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Chelsea's Conte tells Jose Mourinho to stick to concentrating on his own team
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte did not take kindly to Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho’s observation that “other managers cry and cry and cry” about injuries totheir players, seen as aimed at the Italian. “If he is speaking about me,” Conte said after Chelsea’s 3-3 tie with Roma, “I think he has to think about his […]
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Mourinho interested in making a move for Gareth Bale
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is ready to step in and make a bid for Gareth Bale if the Welshman doesn’t start in Tuesday’s European Super Cup for Real Madrid against United.Bale, whose 2016-17 season was plagued by injury, could become expendable if Madrid makes a serious move for Monaco teenager Kylian Mbappe.
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Mourinho is open to keeping Ibrahimovic at United
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, linked with the LA Galaxy in recent days, could stay at Manchester United. United manager Jose Mourinho said it was still possible the 35-year-old Swedish striker,currently recovering from knee surgery, re-signed. “If the decision is to stay and wait until December — he can’t be back until them — why not wait? We […]
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Mourinho accused of $3.7 million tax fraud
Spanish prosecutors have accused Jose Mourinho of owing $3.7 million in taxes from his stint as Real Madrid coach that ended in 2013. They have filed two claims of tax fraud, alleginghe had failed to declare revenues from his image rights in his Spanish income tax declarations in 2011-2012, “with the aim of obtaining illicit […]