Arsene Wenger has said Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho should stop complaining about being unable to match the spending power of Premier League leaders Manchester City.
“I have been in that position for 21 years so I can’t start to complain now,” Wenger said of Mourinho’s frustrations with Manchester City flexing their financial muscles. “There have always been three or four teams richer than I am. I’ve learned to cope with that.
“We deal with our own situation as well as we can. Man City, Chelsea and Man United are all richer than us. You have to find ways to be successful.”
A Jesse Lingard double saved a point for United, but an irked Mourinho later bemoaned City’s free-spending approach, heaping pressure on his own club’s board in the process.
“Manchester City buy full-backs for the price of strikers,” Mourinho said. When it was pointed out that United have spent heavily during his Old Trafford tenure, Mourinho continued: “OK, [but] it is not enough.”
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