Jose Mourinho claims he was accused of bullying a Manchester United player (The Obi One podcast)
Jose Mourinho has revealed that he was accused of bullying a Manchester United player during his time at Old Trafford.
Mourinho joined United in 2016 and helped the club win the League Cup and Europa League, while he also considers finishing second in the 2017/18 Premier League campaign one of his greatest managerial achievements.
However, the 60-year-old was involved in high-profile bust-ups with Paul Pogba and Luke Shaw before he was sacked by United in December 2018.
And Mourinho claims he also clashed with a player’s agent during a disagreement at United.
‘When I was at Man United, I changed a player at half time, I made a change at half time, his agent was accusing me of bullying,’ Mourinho said on The Obi One podcast.
‘With [Nemanja] Matic at Stamford Bridge, he was on the bench. I put him on minute 45, I took him off at minute 70. No, that’s education, that’s coaching. That’s doing anything to win. I had to [make a] change.
‘I laugh about these times but it’s different times [now]. Even to be a dad, you have to be a different dad to how your dad was to you. You have to change according to the world, so football is a little bit of a consequence of that.’
Jose Mourinho was involved in several bust-ups with Paul Pogba at Manchester United (Getty)
Mourinho also insists he ‘gave everything’ as United manager and believes his efforts are appreciated by the club’s supporters.
‘The fans know how much I love the club and I went there [Old Trafford] once with Sky, I was in the box and the whole stadium turned to me applauding and singing for me,’ Mourinho said.
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‘If that happens when I go to Inter, Madrid, Porto or Chelsea, you say, ‘okay this is because of everything we won’.
‘But when you got to Man United, a club with that history and they do that for a coach, who won a Europa League, a cup, a second position and a Charity Shield, you arrive at the conclusion they know that I gave everything that I could.’
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