Mourinho: Other managers are treated better than me
Tottenham boss believes he is treated worse than other managers when it comes to being punished for his behavior on the touchline.
Jose Mourinho
spoke about preferential treatment for
Jurgen Klopp
last month but he has now returned to this topic ahead of his team’s Thursday match against
Liverpool. Tottenham played against Liverpool last month and were defeated 2-1 by the Reds. After that match, Mourinho criticized the officials for being lenient toward Klopp and claimed that he would have been sent off if he behaved the same way the German coach did. In a pre-match interview ahead of
Tottenham’s Thursday match against Liverpool, Mourinho has once again spoken about the double standard at play when it comes to punishing coaches for their behavior.
“What I can say is when I didn’t behave well I paid the price,"
Mourinho said.
"And I paid the price in two ways: one was to see matches on TV in the dressing room and another price was big-money fines and I feel that, for some of the other guys, it doesn’t happen the same. It doesn’t happen the same with them.
"But, if the referee and the fourth official are there to do that job, I just hope they do that job and act the way they have to act.”
The Portuguese manager says he is now more mellowed than his days at Porto, Chelsea, and Real Madrid.
“In my case, I felt an evolution,
"I felt an evolution on the emotional control. I felt an evolution in the calmer I am the better I can read the game.
“And I’m even happy that my assistants, they look to the touchline sometimes for communication and I stay in a privileged position.
"And I felt that I had to change my behaviour, which I’m really really happy with. That’s my personal case. I cannot speak for other guys."
Asked about
Virgil van Dijk’s injury and its effect on Liverpool’s current form, Mourinho responded:
“They lost a fundamental player, we can say what we want, we can try to hide things, but some players are special and they are impossible to replace so even sometimes the defensive process has a relation with losing an attacking player," Mourinho added.
“A team very stable defensively is a team with much better conditions to attack and vice versa. They lost Van Dijk. It’s very, very important for them."
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