Mourinho's Unguarded Utterances Against His Colleagues Got Him Into Trouble.

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"At almost 70 years of age has won Super Cup and another small Cup. He is too old to change his mentality." --José Mourinho 2008

The above quote from Mourinho was what he said about Claudio Ranieri in 2008. Ranieri has today turned Leicester City into the strongest team in the English Premier League, the man whose team's defeat of Chelsea led to Mourinho's sack. On the contrary, Ranieri was 56 years when Mourinho made this comment.

The Copa Italia and Copa De Rey which Mourinho referred to small then happens to be amongst the 22 silverware which Mourinho had won in all of his career. Mourinho's record of silverware would be incomplete without including the above titles which he won in Italy and Spain.

Interestingly,Ranieri was sacked in 2004 by Chelsea and was replaced by Mourinho. Today, Ranieri's team defeated Mourinho, which eventually led to Mourinho's sack and that shows what life is all about.

The three managers whom Mourinho had always described as unsuccessful(Claudio Ranieri, Arsene Wenger and Manuel Pellegrini), were amongst the top four teams as at when Mourinho was sacked. Mourinho dragged Chelsea to sixteenth position before his Sack.