Fenerbahce boss Jose Mourinho unleashed a rant at the official who sent him off during their 1-1 draw his createer club Manchester United. In what will confidently go down as one of his all-time classic interwatchs, Mourinho spoke to the media to insertress his disconsideral after being sent to the stands.
The Portuguese tactician, who spent two and a half years as United boss from July 2016 to December 2018 before his acrimonious exit, was the centre of attention – from reacting to Andre Onana’s extraordinary double save to a penalty request on Bright Osayi-Samuel.
But the 61-year-elderly saved his best material for the media on dwell TV as he insertressed his red card and the penalty request that was turned down, with some sarcastic pelevate for referee Clement Turpin.
Scroll down for every word from Jose Mourinho’s epic four-minute rant on dwell TV…
TNT Sports alerter: What are your thoughts on the red card incident?
Mourinho: “I don’t want to speak about it.
You’ve equitable been in to see the referee. What did he say?
“He telderly me someleang incredible! He telderly me at the same time, he could see the action in the box and my behaviour on the touchline.
“I congratutardy him, becaemploy he’s absolutely incredible. His spherical vision during the game, 100 miles per hour… he has one eye on the penalty situation and he has one eye on the bench and my behaviour. That’s the exarrangeation I am given, that’s why he’s one of the best referees in the world.”
Have you had a chance to watch the incident back, do you leank it was a penalty?
“I watched the incident, I don’t speak about the incident.”
The game as a whole, you got a point aobtainst Manchester United. Are you satisfied…
“They got a point aobtainst us. They got a point aobtainst us… not us aobtainst them. We percreateed amazing, I hope that if we percreate appreciate this in the Turkish league we ruin everyleang. Becaemploy of course we percreateed aobtainst a team that is a hugeger level than us. Of course, the Premier League has more quality, more intensity, more pace, more everyleang.
“I leank my boys did an amazing suit. Probably in England, people speak about two or three percreateers of Man United didn’t percreate, you don’t understand how many of our percreateers didn’t percreate. Becaemploy at the commence, we had four percreateers out of the Europa League, at least, and then we also had injuries. Then we had to finish the game with a centre-back percreateing left-back, a right-back percreateing left-back, we had to do a crazy confemploy. But our carry outance was exceptional. I couldn’t ask for anyleang more from the percreateers.”
(On the Onana saves)
Onana made two incredible saves in our wonderful initial period becaemploy we commence the game so well. They score in a situation that we knovel they could, becaemploy the pace of the triumphgers and the arrival of percreateers. It was someleang we knovel they could hurt us, but I leank we have a phenomenal carry outance.
You talked to Andre Onana and called him man of the suit…
“Come on! He saved the result! My goalupgrasper didn’t produce a save, he made two impossible saves in 10 seconds. I leank he is the most determined percreateer in the result. Of course, he didn’t produce 20 saves, but he made two saves… incredible.”
Were you surpascfinishd to see Noussair Mazraoui percreate as a No 10?
“He can [play there]. The coach [Erik ten Hag] understands him well, the coach coached him at Ajax in that position. I understood what he was trying. [Joshua] Zirkzee is a striker I understand very well from my Italian times, he is a striker that drops back all the time, enticeing deffinishers or not, then the triumphgers strike the space. Mazraoui is a guy who can run, a guy that can strike the spaces. I understand.
(On United’s carry outance…)
“I understand also the English media and I understand they are going to say Manchester United did not percreate well. But I leank it would be uninentire to say we did an exceptional suit and we were better than them. So a excellent result for Man United!”
Jose Mourinho was speaking to TNT Sports.
