Roeder Laughs Off Jose Claims

[Scottish Mag 3]

GLENN Roeder has laughed off suggestions from Jose Mourinho that United have a stronger squad than Chelsea.

 

The Blues boss was quoted in a national newspaper with reference to the Magpies Academy players whom Roeder has been able to call upon during the recent injury crisis.

 

Mourinho said: "I'm not even as lucky as some other people because I don't have in the reserve team defenders with the quality and ready to play for my team.

 

"You look at other teams - Glenn Roeder had Huntington and the boy who scored against Manchester United (Edgar).

 

"Other teams have an answer. We have no quality defenders and players ready to play for the first team - they are too young or not good enough to play at this level. I don't even have a second squad to go and pick players."

 

 

But Roeder, despite reiterating his respect for the Portuguese manager, did find the funny side of his comments

 

He said: "I have great respect for Jose and he has always come across as a brilliant coach but what I never realised was that he is also a comedian.

 

"Our players certainly had a laugh about it and could see the funny side of it.

 

"It's nice however that he thinks we are better off but when we played them recently I said the bench they had was probably the best five-a-side team in the world.

 

"But I know where he's coming from and I think he's just having a bit of fun."

 

Roeder said that it was nice to be able to phone his opposite number at Stamford Bridge this week when he inquired about the availability of a player.

 

He added: "I put a call into him this week about a player but was politely refused and perhaps I wasn't aware of how many injury problems Jose had at Chelsea."

 

And with speculation that the former Porto coach is set to wave goodbye to English football at the end of the season, Roeder said that Mourinho would be a loss to the Premiership and hoped he would remain at Chelsea.

[Invicta_Toon 0]

"no you can't have John Terry, now fook off"

[Nobby 0]

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[@yourservice 67]

The unrest and rot is now setting in at chelsea and Mourinho knows this,you have people now saying he will be a miss in the premiership,not to me he won't,when i watched him win the champions league final and not one emotion on his face i knew he was an arrogant arsehole from that moment,he is now being told what he can and cannot do as in transfers, and he does not like it.

He would be a shite manager without the spending power imo.