JOSE’S WAR & PEACE

JOSE MOURINHO claims he has ended his feud with Antonio Conte – only to reopen old wounds with some of the Class of 92.

Mourinho and Conte (above) have endured a running verbal battle this season, giving an extra edge to tomorrow’s FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Chelsea.

But Mourinho says he made his peace with Conte at Old Trafford in February after

United won 2-1. Asked about their relationship, Mourinho said: “It’s OK, it’s OK. He stretched out, I stretched.. we got bored.

“After the game here in Manchester, I invited him to come to my office. We talked, nothing’s wrong.”

But then Mourinho put the boot into former United players-turned-pundits, accusing them of wanting him to fail at Old Trafford.

He said: “Some of the highprofile people in football have gone from players to weak and frustrated managers, and they return with the status of high-level pundits.

“People remember more of what they were as players and not of what they were as managers. They are voices that influence public opinion.

“There are clubs where the old legend doesn’t want the glory of the new – the old legend who thinks he’ll only continue to be one if the club isn’t without him what it was with him.”

Mourinho also revealed his new No.2 to replace the outgoing Rui Faria will be someone he already knows and trusts, making Nottingham Forest manager Aitor Karanka the strong favourite.

Karanka was Mourinho’s No.2 at Real Madrid and he said: “It’s a person coming who worked with me before, but I can’t say the name because he’s still linked to another

club.”