I Loved Mourinho But People Kept Thinking We Had A Bad Relationship – Joe Cole

Joe Cole has come out to share why the players didn’t want to get on Jose Mourinho’s bad side at Chelsea. He recently revealed that the Portuguese manager would slam them if they put a foot wrong, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, every single time he had a good game but does something silly afterwards, Jose completely ignored the good game he had and called him out for taking his celebrations too far.

Cole added that he once started showboating after assisting 2 goals during a game, and Mourinho immediately warned him that he is risking an exile from the team if such repeats itself.

His words, “I loved Jose but people always think we had a bad relationship. I played a league game and we won 3-0 at home. I set two goals up, and thought I played well, but probably took a few little flicks around. I’ve gone through one-on-one with the keeper late on and should’ve slotted it in but instead, I gave it to Crespo, but he’s not run anywhere near it and the defenders got it.

I thought nothing of it, but we were doing the warm down the next day and Mourinho came over and he said, ‘See you do that s*** again boy you’ll never f***ing play for me again’ and I was like what? Another time I scored the winner against Liverpool and they were our big rivals. I thought I was the bee’s knees and we’d gone out and had a great night. The next morning my phone’s blowing up and he’s battered me in the press. It was just a way of keeping us down but I think he knew every time he did that to me I’d respond.

It was a belter when he dug out Riccy Carvalho. Riccy’s his boy, he took him everywhere and loved him, but I don’t know why (he went for him).

I was right in front of him and he’s going ‘You’re playing like a f***ing elephant’ and he’s done the trunk sign and I’m there laughing.”

Mikel added, “When he’s angry he picks one person that he will really go after and that day Jose killed me. ‘You play like a f***ing elephant, you can’t run’, he destroyed me. I went back and after 10 minutes he took me off.”