Jose Mourinho blasts Manchester United fixture pile-up as he says authorities don’t ‘give an S’
Special One says his players will have to have a lie in on Sundays to deal with quick turnaround
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JOSE MOURINHO has taken another swipe at Football authorities over Manchester United’s fixtures.
The Red Devils beat Rostov on Thursday just three days after an FA Cup quarter-final.
Now they go to Middlesborough on Sunday for a noon kick off.
And United boss Mourinho says: “I can understand if you don’t have any help in relation to the Premier League, but I don’t understand not having any help in relation to European football.
“I am saying this for many, many years. I’ve said this even from my first spell between 2004 and 2008. I don’t ask for me, I ask for everyone. I think they don’t give an ‘S’.
“They don’t give an ‘S’ about English teams in Europe. They simply don’t care.
“There are other interests that are more important.
“In other countries they try to do that little support to the teams in Europe. But here it is difficult. We go Sunday at 12 o’clock. Why? Why us?”
“We should be the last team to play in the weekend - it is as simple as that. We should play Monday. Or we should play the last match on Sunday. Not 12 o’clock.
“At least let us sleep a little bit on Sunday, right? We cannot even sleep on Sunday morning.
“We have to wake up at to eat and come to the game.”
Mourinho says it is time English football took a leaf out of the book of other countries who assist their teams in Europe with the fixtures.
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He said: “During my time in Italy when clubs go to the knockout stages and play on the Tuesday or Wednesday, the week before they play on the Friday.
“In Portugal, every team in Europe plays on the next Monday. So every country is doing that. Germany is doing that.”
Meanwhile Mourinho has hit out at what he believes was player power that saw the sacking of his friend and former Real Madrid assistant Aitor Karanka.
Mourinho said: “In this case, I know the names.”
Then he added sarcastically:
“I think he deserves to be sacked.
“In the first year he arrived, the team was going into League One and he saved the team. In the second year, he took the team to Wembley to play the playoff final.
"In the third year he had direct promotion, I think in the fourth year, he deserved to be sacked.”