Jose Mourinho bites back at Antonio Cassano, as the feud between the Roma coach and former Real Madrid striker intensifies. ‘Some of us work in football, he just wants to enjoy himself.’
The tension has been bubbling for some time and erupted again this week when Cassano criticised Mourinho during his BoboTV appearances with Christian Vieri.
Cassano maintains Mourinho “doesn’t care about football, it’s all just cinema for him” with press conferences and touchline antics.
Following today’s 1-0 victory away to Torino that put the Giallorossi in third place in the Serie A table, Mourinho gave a response.
“Everyone is free to have their preferences and make their criticism, but when talking about others, like Antonio does, it’s different,” said the Special One in a press conference.
“Some of us work in football, he just wants to enjoy himself. Cassano played for Roma, for Inter and for Real Madrid. In Madrid he is only remembered for his jacket. With Roma he won a Supercoppa without playing. At Inter he didn’t even manage the Lombardy Cup in a friendly.
“You know what I won with Inter, Real Madrid and Roma. He might have a problem with me, I do not have a problem with him.
“I will tell Cassano just one thing: careful Antonio, for you are 40 years old and I am 60, at times Marko Livaja types turn up and then it gets tough.”
The ‘jacket’ was referring to a furry number that Cassano wore when first arriving to sign for Real Madrid.
As for the Livaja reference, there have been rumours that the two hot-heads clashed during a training session when they were together at Inter.
It is not clear how Mourinho would know this, considering he never worked with Cassano in his squad.