Mourinho: Flick deserved FIFA’s best coach award

Hansi Flick

led

to a spectacular run last season that ended up in winning all three Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, and Champions League trophies which completed a historical treble for the German giants. The team also added UEFA Super Cup and DFL Super Cup to their 2020 honors and it was expected for the team’s coach to win FIFA’s annual award for best coach. However, the Thursday ceremony saw Liverpool’s

Jurgen Klopp

win the award and among the many who were surprised by this decision was Tottenham manager

Jose Mourinho

.

"I think the only chance for Flick to win is that Bayern find two or three more new competitions to win it,

"So maybe if he wins seven titles in one season maybe he wins the award, because I believe he only won the Champions League, Bundesliga, Pokal, European Super Cup, German Super Cup - he only won five and the biggest one of all.

"So I think poor Flick the only chance is for Bayern to try and find two or three more trophies to see if he can win it."

Mourinho’s team were defeated by Liverpool in a top-of-the-table match last week and while

’s statistics show that Klopp’s side have been playing more efficient football, the Portuguese coach believes that the only statistic that matters is the team’s number of goals.

"You love the word 'possession' and you love the stats,"

Mourinho said.

"You [the media] in general. It is a little bit like the efficiency of players and sometimes you say 'the stats say player B had 92% of efficiency on his passing.'

"But the stats don't say that that player only made passes of two metres... they don't say that that player was a centre-back that only passed to the other centre-back or a number six who only passed the ball to number eight, and the guy who had 65% efficiency on his passes is the guy that made the assists... the guy that makes the tight passes, the guy that makes 60 metres passes to change the direction of the play.

"So the stats, many, many times are like an incredible piece of meat or fish but badly cooked. It doesn't tell me much. What tells me is the number of goals that you score and the number of chances that you create."

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