We all know that the managers of Arsenal and Chelsea do not exactly get on and it is more than just the sort of professional rivalry that Arsene Wenger has had with the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Harry Redknapp and others since taking over as manager nearly 20 years ago.
And now, after the two had that bad tempered pushing exchange at Stamford Bridge earlier in the season, Jose Mourinho has started again, talking about Wenger and Arsenal as he sat in the Sky Sports Goals On Sunday show. As reported by ESPN, the arrogant one just could not restrict himself to talking about things that concerned him, and had to get in a few digs at his rival.
Mourinho said, “I do not understand why they [Arsenal] are not where we are with Man City.
“He has a dream job. I think every manager in the world would like to have the stability he has. Year after year after year, he has the chance to buy, to sell, to rebuild, to wait for success and wait and wait.
“What he did with the club in a certain period gave him that credibility, that he deserves because he is a fantastic manager but he also had a fantastic situation to be successful.
“When I look at the players and I look at the squad, I really think they have to win.
“I like that team very much, they have very good players. Alexis [Sanchez] and [Danny] Welbeck are important players to add to an already very good squad.”
Did Mourinho not once call Wenger a voyeur after the Frenchman said something about his precious Chelsea team? So why does he feel the need to talk about Arsenal?
And the suggestion that he would have been happy to show the same loyalty that Wenger has while having to compete with the teams around you on a much smaller budget as well as having to sell your best stars, is quite frankly laughable and typical of the outrageous hypocrisy the Portuguese coach continues to show.
Healso seems to have convinced himself that he came back to Chelsea because he had been supremely successful and done everything with Inter Milan and Real Madrid, whereas I seem to recall him being pushed out of Madrid because he failed to stop the dominance of Barcelona, failed to bring them the 10th European cup and fell out with the Spanish media and half of the players and staff at his own club.
Maybe he is unhappy that his specialist in failure jibe last season did nothing but make people slate him for disrespect and support Wenger, especially after he and his team finished the season empty handed and Arsenal got the FA cup. And as for why Arsenal are not challenging for the title this year I would point out that, just like last season, we have had a crippling and ongoing injury crisis, while he has had a fully fit squad almost every week.
Finally, just to highlight his bias against Wenger, he also praised the Man United boss Luis van Gaal despite them now being below us in the table and having splashed out a fortune in the summer. Oh please let Man City catch them up and make this obnoxious git have another trophy free season. I might even be tempted to prefer the spuds in the cup final next week and that can’t be right.