Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho’s five-match touchline ban in European competition is over the top, the club’s director general Jorge Valdano has said.
“It’s excessive,” Valdano told Spanish television after Real’s 6-2 thrashing of Sevilla at the Sanchez Pizjuan.
“Throughout the season there have been many coaches who have made some very hard comments, and the punishments were smaller.”
“I don’t know when he’s (Mourinho) going to come out (to speak),” Karanka said. “But as I said yesterday, when things become clearer and calm down a bit, and he sees why all this has happened, he’ll come out again.”
“We are very pleased, the players are motivated, and the boss has burned a positive attitude into us to be able to start the next season well,” he told reporters.
We think here at Footballticketsbarcelona.com that the man has a lot of issues both on and off the pitch, he is forever saying things that get him into trouble and this ban is the result of that.
Take a look at my top 10 Mourinho vocal blunders.
10.”I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, media and fans. [Claudio] Ranieri had been in England for five years and still struggled to say ‘good morning’ and ‘good afternoon.’ “He has won a Super Cup, a small cup. He has never won a major trophy. Maybe he needs to change his mindset but he is too old to do it.”
9.”If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.”
8.”When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee’s dressing room I couldn’t believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off I wasn’t surprised.” “My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard’s history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.”
7.”For me, pressure is bird flu. I’m feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It’s not fun and I’m more scared of it than football.”
6.“As for Monaco I do not know who he is. With the name Monaco I have heard of Bayern Monaco (Munich) and the Monaco GP, the Tibetan Monaco (Monk), and the Principality of Monaco. I have never heard of any others.”
5.”I think he is one of these people who is a voyeur. He likes to watch other people. There are some guys who, when they are at home, have a big telescope to see what happens in other families. He speaks, speaks, speaks about Chelsea.” Talking about Catania president Pietro Lo Monaco claimed he wanted to ‘smack [Mourinho] in the mouth’
4.“As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal. I would have been frustrated if I had been a supporter who paid £50 to watch this game because Spurs came to defend.”
3.”It’s not even a game between him and me. It’s a game where a kid made some statements not showing maturity and respect. Maybe [it’s his] education, difficult childhood, no education, maybe [it is] the consequence of that.” He said that about Cristiano Ronaldo!
2.”Ronaldo is a good player, but he is certainly not the best. He deserved the Golden Ball award because his team won the Champions League and the Premier League. But, for me, Ibrahimovic is the best.”
1.“Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m a European champion, and I think I’m a special one.”