THE OTHER PLAYERS TO HAVE FALLEN FOUL OF MOURINHO

MANCHESTER United manager Jose Mourinho shocked supporters when he angrily claimed that England left back Luke Shaw will struggle to earn a place on the substitutes’ bench, after the club’s 0-0 draw against West Brom.

Shaw was regarded as one of the most promising young players in the world when he signed for United in 2014 for £30m, but Mourinho has claimed the full-back is a long way behind his rivals for a starting spot at his club.

He has also suggested that the player could be farmed out on loan to a foreign club if his performances do not improve.

“It is difficult for him to be on the bench,” Mourinho said after the underwhelming home draw.

“I cannot compare him with Ashley Young, with Matteo Darmian, with Daley Blind. I cannot compare the way he trains, the way he commits, the focus, the ambition. I cannot compare. He is a long way behind.”

When asked if more should be expected of an England international, Mourinho added: “(Manchester City’s) Joe Hart is an English international and is playing on loan in Italy.”

However, Shaw is far from the first player to be be openly criticised by Mourinho, who has a long history of engaging in public spats with his own players.

Vitor Baia (Porto)

The former Portugal goalkeeper started and ended a glittering career at Porto, having also spent two years at Barcelona. But Baia did not have it all his own way during his second spell, losing his first-team place and suspended for disciplinary reasons in Mourinho’s maiden season as boss following a reported training ground row with his compatriot. Baia remained at the club until he retired in 2007, three years after Mourinho left for his first stint at Chelsea.

Ricardo Quaresma (Inter Milan)

Quaresma was meant to be Inter’s star player under Mourinho, but the manager grew impatient with his ill-discipline and resorted to critiquing him in the press, which didn’t go down well with the player. “My biggest regret was joining Inter,” Quaresma later said. “I felt on the margins of the squad and woke up crying when I had to attend training sessions.” David Suazo (Inter Milan) Mourinho failed to give David Suazo much of a chance when he took over at Inter in 2008 and criticised him in the press before farming him out on loan to Benfica. “Mourinho is arrogant and selfish, and likes to assert his dominance,” Suazo later told the Honduran publication, Diez.

Iker Casillas (Real Madrid)

The Madrid legend was one of the first players Mourinho fell out with after joining the club in 2010. Mourinho was disgusted that Casillas, above, regularly spoke to Barcelona players and was said to be suspicious of his girlfriend, who worked as a journalist. “Mourinho saw him as a grass, a mole, a traitor and an egoist,” Diego Torres wrote in his biography, The Special One.

Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)

Current Real captain Ramos was a key player during Mourinho’s three-year stay in Madrid, although the pair were far from friends. Ramos went public with his dismay at Mourinho’s treatment of Mesut Oezil and insisted in a 2014 interview that he had forgot who Mourinho was.

Pepe (Real Madrid)

The pair frequently bickered during Mourinho’s time at Real, although like Ramos, Pepe remained a key part of Madrid’s starting XI. Pepe accused Mourinho’s treatment of his friend, Casillas, as being “not adequate”. Mourinho replied: “It is easy to analyse the Pepe thing. His problem has a name, and it is Raphael Varane,” suggesting that Pepe was an inferior player to the emerging 20-year-old.

Pedro Leon (Real Madrid)

Similar to Luke Shaw, Pedro Leon was a young player inherited by Mourinho whom he almost immediately dismissed. The Guardian’s Sid Lowe reported that “Mourinho told Leon that even if the team plane crashed without him on it and he was the only man available, he still would not play the following week.” Leon accused Mourinho of workplace bullying before being sold to Getafe.

Juan Mata (Chelsea)

Mata became a fans’ favourite at Stamford Bridge after arriving at Chelsea from Valencia in 2011. However, the Spaniard struggled to adapt to Mourinho’s style of play during his second spell in charge of the Blues and was sold to Manchester United in 2014. Mata and Mourinho were later reunited at Old Trafford and the former has now become an important player for his manager in Manchester.

Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea)

“The thinking behind the move was the fact that Romelu was always very clear with us, in his mentality, in his approach, he was not highly motivated to come to a competitive situation at Chelsea,” Mourinho said after allowing Lukaku, above, to leave Chelsea for Everton in 2014, for £28m.

The striker has recently been linked with a summer move to Man United, for £65m.

Kevin de Bruyne (Chelsea)

The Belgian infamously revealed that he gave up on his Chelsea career after Mourinho had embarrassed him in front of his teammates. “He called in all the attacking midfielders,” said De Bruyne of his final weeks in west London. “He showed us the stats of his six players – assists, goals, passing percentage, key passes, dribbles. He wanted to prove I didn’t perform on the level of the others. I simply answered him: “Sorry, that’s not logical. I’ve played less games than the others. How can you compare me to the others?” That was just not fair in my eyes.” David Luiz (Chelsea)

Mourinho sold Luiz upon his return to Chelsea and insisted that the defender “would not be missed”. The pair have regularly traded jibes since and Luiz perhaps got the last laugh when Chelsea resigned him in 2016, under Antonio Conte.

Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United)

Frustrated with Schweinsteiger’s habit of flying back to Germany when injured, Mourinho banished the veteran midfielder to training with the reserves. However, Mourinho later admitted to feeling regret over his handling of the player. “After knowing him as a person and a professional and the way he was respecting my decisions as a manager, yes I regret it and there is no problem for me to admit it, because I have told him,” he said after selling the midfielder to the Chicago Fire.

Luke Shaw (Manchester United)

Mourinho’s rant on Shaw’s, above, lack of effort in recent months was one of his most explosive yet. “It is difficult for him to be on the bench,” Mourinho said. “I cannot compare him with Ashley Young, with Matteo Darmian, with Daley Blind. I cannot compare the way he trains, the way he commits, the focus, the ambition. I cannot compare. He is a long way behind.” – The Independent