Liverpool is more crucial for Mourinho

ANY emotional attachment towards Chelsea has become an insignificance for Jose Mourinho, who revealed Manchester United’s clash with Liverpool next month is a bigger game for him.

Mourinho can open up a six-point gap on his former club with victory at Old Trafford this afternoon, but claimed hosting Jurgen Klopp in a fortnight is a greater occasion.

The feud between United’s manager and his adversary, Antonio Conte, escalated over the New Year, with the Chelsea boss branded Mourinho ‘fake’ and a ‘little man’.

Despite that, the Portuguese insisted he no longer has anything to prove to Chelsea.

‘It’s any normal game and probably playing Liverpool in a couple of weeks means more,’ Mourinho said. ‘Because for my club — and everyone knows that the most important thing is not me — to play Liverpool has a special meaning. That’s the way I have to look at things.

‘I don’t have any bad feeling in relation to Chelsea to say: “Oh, I’m going to prove this and that against my former club”. I’m not going to prove anything.

‘In fact, every club I left — by my decision or by the board — I have very good feelings towards them. I’ve never played against Inter since I left, but when I’ve faced Porto, Real Madrid and Chelsea, the feeling is a good one. It’s not a special thing.’