Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karaka has lavished praise on Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho especially for the honesty with which he deals with his players, insisting that the Portuguese is “brutally honest.”

Karanka worked as Mourinho’s assistant for three years when the Portuguese was in charge of Real Madrid from 2010 until his departure for the Premier League in 2013.




In his second spell at Stamford Bridge, Mourinho is poised to win the Premier League and having already won the League Cup with a defeat of Tottenham Hotspur in the final last month, the 52-year-old is set to end the season with two trophies in tow.

But more than the two time Champions League winning manager’s success, Karanka, whose Championship outfit are chasing promotion to the Premier League as they sit third in the table and appear strong favourites for the playoffs, has saluted the brutal honesty that the Chelsea boss exhibits.
 


“Above anything else, what I liked most about Jose was his brutal honesty”, he told Canal +.

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“That is something that, when you are a player, you don’t come across very often.

“Most coaches won’t tell you things straight; tell you how things are, or what is real.

“Maybe that’s out of fear or because that doesn’t form part of their personality but Jose doesn’t care a jot who the player he is talking to might be because for him, no player is bigger or comes before the team.”

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