JOSE RAGE AT CITY’S SERIES
Raging Jose Mourinho has slammed Manchester City and claimed the champions have “no class” after the release of their £10million Amazon documentary.
Mourinho (right) and Manchester United are featured in the
eight episode fly-on-the-wall series documenting City’s Premier League and Carabao Cup double – and it’s left the Old Trafford boss fuming.
Asked about the revealing behindthe-scenes footage, filmed over nine months of last season by a camera crew with Access All Areas permission, Mourinho was scathing.
“I haven’t seen it but I know a few things about the movie” said the United boss.
“My reaction is if you are a rich club you can buy top players but you cannot buy class.
“I think you can have a fantastic movie, respecting others. You don’t need to be disrespectful to have a fantastic movie.”
The United chief, who features more than once in the documentary, believes he’s been deliberately targeted and ridiculed for selling Kevin De Bruyne when he was Chelsea manager.
And he’s angry at a dig discrediting his style of football, described by actor and voiceover narrator Ben Kingsley as “park the bus”.
In a brutal put-down of City’s failure to win the title against United at The Etihad in April, Mourinho insists he doesn’t want any royalties for appearing in the documentary.
Instead, he says, he’ll settle for one of the “We did it on Derby Day” t-shirts Guardiola (below) and his players were ready to wear if they’d beaten United to clinch the title in April last season.
Despite being 2-0 up at the Etihad a second-half double from Paul Pogba and a winner by defender Chris Smalling sabotaged the City championship party.
Mourinho said: “The second reaction is that because I am in the movie I could ask for some royalties.
“But if they send me one of the shirts they had in the tunnel when we played there, the shirts that were saying ‘We did it on derby day’. “If they send me one of these shirts, I will give up about the royalties.”
City claim the only control they had over the final cut centred on any footage deemed potentially slanderous or which divulged commercially sensitive information about the club or personal details.