Mourinho: I don’t think Frank wants to speak to me
The Tottenham boss completely understands what his former player went through after Chelsea decided to sack him.
Jose Mourinho says that he doesn’t believe that he should reach out to recently dismissed Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, with the Spurs boss saying that he doubts his former midfielder has any desire to hear from him.
Chelsea’s board sacked Lampard as manager on Monday, with his dismissal coming despite his status as one of the club’s greatest players. The Blues are set to replace him with former Paris Saint-Germain boss, Thomas Tuchel.
Lampard played under Mourinho at Stamford Bridge from 2004-2007 and then again in 2013, winning two Premier League titles, two League Cups, an FA Cup, and a Community Shield together.
Mourinho has been at the end of the management’s decision to sack managers, twice in his time at Chelsea and has admitted that it is not his desire to reach out to his former player at the moment.
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And, after receiving news of Lampard’s fate, Mourinho said he doesn’t feel it is his place to reach out to Chelsea’s now-former manager.
“I don’t think Frank wants to speak to me or with anyone apart from his close circle of family and friends,“ Mourinho said.
“But I am always sad when a colleague loses his job and Frank is not just a colleague. He is an important person in my career so I feel sorry he did.
“But it is the brutality of football, especially modern football so when you become a manager you know that sooner or later it is going to happen to you.“
The Portuguese also talked about the FA Cup clash against Wycombe.
“I knew that the game was going to be difficult,“ he added.
“We started preparing for the game by showing the players what they did a few years ago at White Hart Lane. Six of these players and the manager are still on this team.
“So that I think was a good start and then we prepared for the game knowing it could be hard and it was. It’s not easy to handle their style of play.
“If you don’t score goals they stay in the game and it was great for us to score in minute 85 because that gave us the possibility of not playing extra-time, which would have been not good for us.“
