Jose Mourinho repeats his most infamous line after being knocked out of Champions League weeks into Fenerbahce job
JOSE MOURINHO repeated his most infamous line after Fenerbahce were knocked out of the Champions League.
The Turkish outfit were dumped out of the competition qualifiers by French side Lille.
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Jonathan David netted the decisive goal in the 118th minute from the spot.
A penalty was controversially given after Jayden Oosterwolde was adjudged to have handled the ball in the box.
The decision was not given on the pitch, resulting in a VAR intervention.
But after Spanish referee Sanchez Martinez looked at the replay, he was in little doubt about giving the penalty.
David made no mistake from the spot as he sent Lille through with a 2-1 aggregate victory.
Mourinho, 61, was left fuming with the decision as he claimed after the game that Martinez was quick to “load his ink” against him.
The manager will have the consolation of seeing his side feature in the Europa League.
However, he was wary with his words in his press conference – and made that clear by repeating an iconic line from 2014.
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He said: “We can do very well in the Europa League, but if… I prefer not to continue with this sentence.
“Because if I say it, I will get into trouble.”
He first said the line in 2014
Mourinho first said the line when he was asked about referee Chris Foy’s performance when Aston Villa beat his Chelsea side 1-0 back 2014.
After a match which saw two of his players sent off, the Special One said: “I prefer not to speak. If I speak, I am in big trouble.
“In big trouble. And I don’t want to be in big trouble.”
After the match in Istanbul, which finished in a 1-1 draw and a 3-2 aggregate win for Lille, Mourinho delivered one of his trademark rants.
He said: “It’s better not to talk about the penalty. When I look at other incidents that have happened to me recently,
“Only the referee knows why it was a penalty, only the VAR knows. I’m proud of my team.”
The spot-kick was not Mourinho’s only gripe with the officials as he also was critical of what he saw as the referee’s failure to crack down on the visitors’ timewasting.
He added: “This [not wasting time] is the referee’s job, he has to respect the game. He has to make the players respect it.
“I can’t criticise the opposing teams.
“They also try to get a result. If they showed a yellow card in the first 20 minutes, everything would change, but they don’t.”
Meanwhile, the former Chelsea boss is keen to sign Manchester City ace Mateo Kovacic before the transfer window shuts.
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