Manchester United Star Accused Jose Mourinho of “Bullying” Due to Half-Time Substitution

Jose Mourinho’s time as the manager of Manchester United was quite an eventful one. His managerial time at the Red Devils was filled with several accounts of arguments and controversies with his players. In a recent podcast, the Portuguese manager made a surprising claim that a star player from the club had accused him of bullying for substituting him at half-time.

The Special One has also spoken about how times are changing in the soccer world. He has revealed that he cannot talk the same way with his players as he used to during his time at Chelsea.

Jose Mourinho makes an astonishing claim about Manchester United star

The 60-year-old Portuguese manager is known for making big decisions during the match. He made one such change during his time as Manchester United manager. However, this did not go down well with a Red Devils’ star at the time. Speaking on the incident Jose Mourinho in the podcast with John Obi Mikel said, “When I was at Man United, I changed a player at halftime. I made a change and was accused of bullying.” Although Mourinho refrained from naming the player, he also reminisced about an example of where he had to make a tough change.

Jose Mourinho has said he had to make a similar substitution during his time as Chelsea manager. He said, “With Matic at Stamford Bridge, he was on the bench. I put him on minute 45, I take him off around minute 70 because we are 3-1 down”. That’s education, that’s coaching. That’s doing anything to win. I had to (make the) change.” Unfortunately, in the end, the substitution did not work out as they lost 3-1.

The Portuguese recently came under fire for making a similar substitution. This time, he made such a substitution with Italian giants AS Roma in their game against Bologna.

The Portuguese manager apologies to the AS Roma midfielder for his substitution

The Special One decided to bring on Renato Sanches as AS Roma were trailing 1-0 to Bologna. However, amid all this, the opposition scored another goal. In the 64 minute, Sanches was substituted to his surprise. Jose Mourinho also did not talk to him or look at him after substituting him off. But, the 60-year-old did apologize to the midfielder after the match.

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The Portuguese manager pointed out that he did not meet his expectations. He further said taking Renato off early also was a tough decision for him. Renato is on loan from PSG. Hence, at the moment, these are not good indications for the 26-year-old midfielder to make his move permanent.

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There is no doubt that Jose Mourinho will surely speak to his midfielder on the training grounds to explain his decision. What are your thoughts on the Renato Sanches substitution? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.