by ‘Ifreke Inyang
There’s a secret waiting to be revealed. That Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, needs to say something to the media every day of the week, so he can live the next day.
In the space of three weeks or so, the Portuguese tactician has ripped into Manuel Pellegrini, Arsene Wenger, the media, his staff and just yesterday, his strikers.
“The problem with Chelsea is we lack a scorer. I have one [Eto’o] but he’s 32. Maybe 35, who knows?” the Special One quipped, blissfully unaware he was being filmed. He thought he was instead conducting what he believed to be a private and light-hearted conversation with the head of Hublot watches at a sponsor’s event.
Never one to avoid stirring up controversy and trouble, Mourinho practically pulled down his pants and gave Falcao every flirting glance in the book, while effectively calling Monaco a small club.
“I don’t have Falcao but Falcao doesn’t have a team,” Mourinho said. “Who wants to play in front of 3,000 supporters? If I was one day to go to Monaco it would be at the end [of my career].”
This is not an embarrassment to the Ligue 1 club. As Wenger rightly declared, Mourinho is desperately embarrassing Chelsea and its owner, Roman Abramovich. One seems to wonder if the Russian is biding his time again, before he adds Mourinho’s name to the labour market.
I won’t deny I don’t like Mourinho. He’s a spiky, but very interesting character. But his tendency to always open his mouth and spew bile, irks. He is every journalist’s delight, especially in England – the press practically helped him pack his baggage in Spain. But in a rather bizarre reaction to the leaked interview, Mourinho called the reporter who published the Eto’o story “a disgrace”. How dare he question media ethics, when he revels in feeding them soundbites every other week? Or does he think reporters choose what stories to send out or not? How long before he falls out of favour in England too?
Whatever the case, it is best Abramovich calls him to order. This, among many other reasons, is why Chelsea is not a well loved club. It is not about the billions the Russian has sunk in, afterall the Arabs that bought Manchester City, have exhausted a fortune. The classlessness about activities at Stamford Bridge attracts hate and if Roman is keen on his club’s image, as I am sure he is, he will ask the little mischievous parrot on his bench to put a lid on it.
‘Ifreke Inyang tweets via @Ifreke
Ifreke inyang or whatever u call urself,kindly mind ur own business,u call chelsea a club that is not well loved,I suspect u must be suffering from an undefined hypermetropic myopia or u may have consumed cheap and expired Paracetamol