The Chelsea boss says he is under more
pressure than any other manager because
"some have 10 years to win something" or
"arrive on time to collect the fruits off their
trees"
Chelsea manager Jose
Mourinho has kicked off the
Premier League campaign with
a thinly veiled jibe at Arsenal
boss Arsene Wenger,
suggesting he was afforded 10
years to win a trophy.
Mourinho arrived back at Stamford Bridge last summer
but insisted towards the end of the 2013-14 campaign
that his squad were not ready to win the title.
And now
he feels he
is under
more
pressure
to deliver
success
than any of
his
colleagues.
"Why?
Some have
10 years to
win
something,
I have only
two," he
told
reporters
on Friday.
Wenger famously oversaw a nine-year trophy drought
at the Gunners, ending with their FA Cup victory in
May, but has not won the Premier League in a decade
and was branded a "specialist in failure" by Mourinho
last season.
The Portuguese then went on to hit out at other
managers, perhaps old rivals Manuel Pellegrini and Pep
Guardiola, suggesting they have benefited from good
work by their predecessors.
“I’m not a very intelligent guy to choose teams,” he
added. “I like to work. I like to build. I don’t like easy
jobs. I don’t like to get clubs worked by other managers
before me. I don’t like to arrive on time to collect the
fruits off their trees.
“When I went to Porto, the season before they had
been fifth. When I went to Madrid, where was Madrid?
Where was Inter before I went there? And I came to
Chelsea [last season] at a moment when one team was
over and another needed to be born – and at the same
time I came to the only league where four, five, six can
compete for the title.
“At the end of the season you, the supporters and the
players will judge my work. And most important, my
boss, my owner, my board will judge my work.”
Pellegrini took over Manchester City last summer after
the club had finished second and first in their previous
two seasons, while Guardiola inherited Jupp Heynckes'
treble-winning Bayern Munich squad.
Dem don begin again oooo