Jose Mourinho says Man City should have been docked points for failing to meet UEFA Financial Fair Play guidelines.
|||London - Jose Mourinho says Manchester City should have been docked points for failing to meet UEFA Financial Fair Play guidelines and vowed that Chelsea would never break those rules.
The Chelsea manager, now in touching distance of his third Barclays Premier League title after Wednesday night’s win at Leicester, refused to back down when it comes to his views on big-spending City.
City were fined £49million last year for breaching FFP guidelines and hit with a spending cap but Mourinho said last night: ‘When Manchester City pays off 50 millions of fine because they exceeded the FFP, I think it’s unfair. FFP should be fulfilled and that’s it.
‘(Clubs) should be punished with loss of points. Our owner (Roman Abramovich) wants to fulfil FFP. He doesn’t want to enter these dynamics of paying the fine.
‘FFP benefits clubs like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern, who have a big fan base and get huge revenues on sponsorship and merchandising. At Chelsea, for instance, we refuse to pay any fine. We live with what we produce.
‘I feel really well about that. It forces us to be better, to manage better our resources, to live with what we create.
‘It forces us to think more. We have to sell in order to buy, to be aware of what you sell and what you buy.’
In an interview with the official magazine of the Portuguese FA, Mourinho said that the Premier League is the best in the world but adds that the hectic Christmas period costs English clubs when European competition resumes. ‘England will always have the most spectacular league,’ he said. ‘There’s no Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern, it’s true, but as a league it’s the most spectacular. The product they sell is appealing. Many millions watch Sunderland against Newcastle, for example.
‘In Europe, there are several factors that can explain it. The first is Christmas. I love to play during that period, no matter how hard it is for my family.
‘It’s a bit like the actor who has a theatre play on Christmas Day - people want to go to the theatre on that day. But I can’t agree that there’s no (break) after that superhuman period.
‘Get to February and English teams are struggling.’
Mourinho also spoke about his relationship with former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
Asked if he missed his rival, he said: ‘Not the man, we talk more often now, on the telephone and even personally.
‘We met in London, Paris... but I miss a bit my opponent Alex Ferguson. I always asked him a lot of questions.
‘I remember a chat we had when he was still coaching, before Manchester United-Real Madrid (in March 2013).
‘We both had butterflies in our stomachs and I asked him: “Does this ever change?”.
‘He told me: “No! It will be like this until the end!”. I told him that was my plan.
‘Now I ask him if he’s fine, if he’s happy and if he regrets. And he’s happy.’
Daily Mail
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