Angry Mourinho blasts media: Do your job and let me do mine!

 

Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has taken aim at the media ahead of facing Manchester United on Sunday.

Mourinho also refused to explain his comments about Toby Alderweireld’s absence against Newcastle last weekend.

Asked to explain his comments about Alderweireld, Mourinho claimed he had no case to answer and suggested the media was guilty of sensationalism.

“I can’t clarify and I can’t clarify because you [the media] spoke about it for the whole week,” he said.

“You play the game, enjoy the game during the whole week and now I want to enjoy my game at one o’clock.

“Now I’m here to answer to the question that you already answered for the whole week. There is nothing for me to clarify. If I have to clarify, I clarify with my people and not with the people who know everything and wrote and spoke and sold papers and with audiences on radios and TVs.

“You don’t even pay me a percentage, so I’m not going to play the game. Let me play [my game], I’ve been working in the gym for two weeks for this game and now I’m going to arrive late.”

Mourinho was also asked how his players had reacted to his public criticism at St James’ Park but responded similarly, suggesting he was unhappy with newspaper reports which claimed members of the squad were irked by his comments.

“I’m not going to answer to your question because for the whole week, everybody spoke about it, everybody took for granted what they were writing, what they were saying,” the Spurs manager said.

“So I don’t feel comfortable to come five or six days later to make comments about something people write and speak like if they know everything.

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“I don’t think I want to go in that direction. I prefer to play or to let you play your game, I mean the media in general, I let you play the game we’ve had during the week and I just want to play our game at 1pm.

“I don’t want to play that game.”