Jose Mourinho believes Chelsea manager Antonio Conte received the wrong message with regards to his comments in midweek.
The Manchester United manager said earlier in the week that unlike other managers he doesn’t like to moan about injuries and many felt it was a dig towards Conte.
The Chelsea boss responded and asked Mourinho to concentrate on own his team rather than focusing on other people’s jobs, but the Manchester United manager believes the feud has no basis.
He indicated the Conte was under the false notion that he was talking about him.
Mourinho told reporters: “I don’t speak to him; I don’t know why he’s speaking to me.
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“Maybe it’s not his fault, it’s the journalist’s fault.
"Probably they passed him a wrong message.”
The Manchester United manager doubled down on managers who use injuries as an excuse for failures and stressed that he never moans about his players missing.
He did concede that there are other things that he does moan about regularly.
“I know what I said after the match and it’s the reality.
"There are managers all over the world who by philosophy prefer to speak about injuries, they try to find excuses for failures based on injuries”, Mourinho continued.
“Based on last season, we had big injuries and without [Romelu] Lukaku, Zlatan [Ibrahimovic] was even more important. My philosophy is not to moan and cry.
“I moan and cry about other things – I cry about fixtures, I moan about no time for rest in between matches, I moan about why we should play on Saturday after Wednesday – I moan about these things all the time.”
Mourinho’s team are in Yorkshire to take on Huddersfield Town later today.
