Yesterday, after sarcastically commenting on Jurgen Klopp paying 75 million pounds for Virgil van Dijk, today "Manchester United" strategist Jose Mourinho complains about "Manchester City" spending.
Currently, the "Red Devils" are 15 points behind the leaders of the Premier League, and according to the Portuguese, it is because he cannot afford to spend 100 million pounds on each player.
The manager of the "Citizens" significantly strengthened the team during the transfer window by acquiring defenders Benjamin Mendy, Kyle Walker, and Danilo, goalkeeper Ederson, attacking midfielder Bernardo Silva, and young talent Douglas Luiz. These purchases cost a total of 221.5 million.
"Do you think a club can just take 600 million pounds and buy six players for 100 million each? The club cannot do that," Mourinho told the official "Man United" website.
"I cannot expect the club to do that, so it's not a critical issue. You can see how the market is now, especially looking at the top teams. However, without diminishing "Manchester City", Pep, his staff, and players deserve it, given that they really deserve it. When Pep arrived, he had the England national team goalkeeper (Joe Hart - ed. note), but he didn't like him, so he bought a goalkeeper from Barcelona (Claudio Bravo - ed. note), and when he didn't like him, he bought another one (Ederson - ed. note). Now everything is in his favor."
"He had Zabaleta and Kolarov - two good but over 30-year-old players. He wanted to replace them, but he replaced them with not two but three players. One from Tottenham (Kyle Walker - ed. note), one from Monaco (Benjamin Mendy - ed. note), and one from Real Madrid (Danilo - ed. note)."
"Can we buy six or seven players at once? Can we invest 600-700 million pounds? No. So, the situation is difficult. I think in recent years, the market is moving towards a direction where you either belong to those clubs that have no limits and simply buy what they want, they don't have financial transparency rules, nothing exists for them - you just do what you want - or it's hard for you."
Mourinho criticizes "Manchester City" who lost just two points so far this season in the Premier League.
