Portugal defender, Ruben Dias is the best centre-back in the world right now, Jose Mourinho has said. He recently revealed that he’ll rank the City player ahead of Virgil van Dijk and Marquinhos.
According to him, since Dias joined the English Premier League, he has been exposed to a different knowledge and experience of competitiveness, and this has made him a better player.
Mourinho added that Reuben is definitely a fantastic centre-back that Portugal can benefit from during the tournament.
His words, “I think Ruben Dias is the best centre-back in the world now, maybe.”
“I would say that Ruben with this step to the Premier League is getting a different knowledge and experience of competitiveness.”
“I think he’s a fantastic centre-back. Lots of fantastic players in attack, Cristiano is not a kid anymore.”
“I believe it is his last Euros and after being European Champion, he will try everything to succeed for the last time.”
“The manager Fernando is the right guy for the right place.”
“The transition keeping Cristiano, Pepe, Rui Patricio, keeping (Joao) Moutinho and that structure of experienced boys, I think he’s the right guy in the right place.”
“Very stable and knows the players very well. He knows what he wants and it’s such a group that if you told me Portugal would go out at the group stage, I wouldn’t be surprised as we play France in France, Germany in Germany and Hungary in Hungary.”
“For Portugal, it’s such an incredible situation in the group stage. If you go through it again, we are a team capable of going to the end.”
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