Former Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho's takes swipe at Los Blancos superstar
Former Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has taken a parting shot at his old team’s biggest star Cristiano Ronaldo, saying the striker thought he knew it all.
Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (right) shakes hands with head coach Jose Mourinho after being substituted during a Champions League match. PIC/Getty Images
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Mourinho, who is returning to Chelsea next season after three divisive years at the Santiago Bernabeu, was asked why relations between the two Portuguese compatriots had deteriorated.
“Cristiano had three fantastic seasons with me, all of them,” the 50-year-old Mourinho told Spanish television Intereconomia’s sports programme Punto Pelota in a recorded interview.
“I think we found a fantastic tactical situation for him to express his potential in goals,” he said of the 28-year-old.u00a0“I had one problem with him, very simple, very basic, and it was as a coach to criticise him from a tactical point of view, trying to improve what I believed could be improved,” Mourinho added.
“He did not accept it very well because he thinks probably that he knows it all and the coach cannot help him to grow more.”
‘Would go back...’
Mourinho, who returned on Monday to the London club he previously coached from 2004 to 2007, had a positive review of his own role in Madrid.u00a0“If you ask me if I would go to Real again knowing what has happened in the last three years then I say that I would do so.
“Because if I had not come I would not be able to say that I had won the three most important championships of the world,” he said, referring to the titles he picked up with Chelsea, Inter Milan, and Real Madrid.
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