Jose Mourinho has issued a scathing response to Pep Guardiola after the Man City boss reminded fans that he had won twice as many Premier League titles as the Portuguese manager.
Guardiola made the comment as he answered questions following his side's 2-0 defeat to Liverpool last weekend.
The 53-year-old was seen raising six fingers to the Anfield crowd after the match in reference to his top flight trophy haul.
The image evoked memories of Mourinho, who famously held up three fingers to Chelsea and Tottenham fans during a defeat in the latter days of his Manchester United tenure in 2018.
Mourinho was sacked months later and Guardiola wad asked if he could suffer the same fate.
The City manager replied: 'I hope not in my case... He won three, I won six.. but we are the same like that.
'We are together in the those situations. To make our fans know that we are much, much better than the people that sing that [Liverpool fans singing sacked in the morning]'.
'It [the gesture] was just to make our fans feel that what we have done is extraordinary. I want to prove that we are an incredible football club. Sooner or later it's going to be the end but I will try to extend as much as possible for the best of my club.'
And Mourinho has clearly taken issue with the comment, hitting back at the Spaniard.
The Fenerbahçe manager said: 'Guardiola said something to me yesterday. He won six trophies and I won three, but I won fairly and cleanly.
'If I lost, I want to congratulate my opponent because he was better than me. I don't want to win by dealing with 150 lawsuits.'
Mourinho was clearly making reference to the 115 charges than City are currently facing.
City face potential relegation from the Premier League over the 115 charges levelled at them for allegedly breaching the English football body’s financial rules.
The proceedings, which began back in September, were shrouded in mystery initially, before it was later revealed that it was being held at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in London (IDRC) - which is near St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London.
On Wednesday, Premier League barristers Andrew Hunter KC and Adam Lewis KC of Blackstone Chambers were seen making their way to the centre for closing statements.
Should Lewis and his legal team prove City are guilty of the most serious financial breaches, the club could face severe punishments such as relegation or a significant points deduction.
All of City's 115 charges will be investigated, reviewed and analysed by an independent commission.
Rhykon
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MOURINHO goes to any team with his style WHILST GUARDIOLA is an opportunist, he makes sure a team is well developed or an Arab owned so he can get anything he wishes for.
Sambodh10
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Mourinho won UCL with Porto and Inter. UECL with Roma. Guardiola managed the golden era of Barcelona who were developed during Rijkaard era players like Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Eto etc, so he got a golden plate of players. Also half of those squad was Spainsh which coincide with Spainsh National Team golden era. And he also had Messi who was the best player in the world back then, so winning with these players is not a big deal. Guardiola then went to Bayern, can't even reach UCL final with them given that they won the 2013 UCL and were 3 times finalist in last four seasons. Now don't tell me winning Bundesliga is a achivement. Bayern are doing it every year with or without Pep. Then he came to Man City and he took 7 years to win UCL with them after spending Billions of pounds. So Guardiola is not a great coach, he manages great teams of teams with great financial power. Guardiola always gets the food ready at his table or nice money to buy the food. Mourinho always has to prepare his own food. Mourinho is great than Guardiola. I can't even imagine if Mourinho was the Man City manager and had he taken 7 years to win a European final what the media would have done of him.
Kayboi1990
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Poor response, the allegations weren’t even committed during the pep’s spell at city. So mr mourihno you’re deluded.
Zikaciotuz
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Moaningho with another moan The Sacked One 😂
Maduor
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MOURINHO IS WHO HE REALLY THINKS HE IS😂😂
Sambodh10
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Guardiola is a beautiful lie, Mourinho is the fucking truth.
fupceiluyz
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Mourinho, you are the GOAT!! Tell that bald fraud that you have never gone 6 matches without a win.You have never caused physical harm ( scratches e.t.c) to yourself because of loosing, you won the champions league without oil money ( Porto and Inter Milan), you caused Guardiola to run away from the La Liga.👍👍👍👍👍👍
Zewadeklpz
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I respect Pep for his achievements in football but winning UCL with inexperienced Porto and an ageing Inter was more than special. Respect MOU
mupamsty
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MOURINHO goes to any team with his style WHILST GUARDIOLA is an opportunist, he makes sure a team is well developed or an Arab owned so he can get anything he wishes for.
Nah I disagree with you. He was a manager at Barca and distroyed everyone and he went to Baryen and won lots of cups now he's in Man City that's the only team that's owned by Arabs Baryen and Barca aren't. And on top of that outsmarted every manager who came be4 him at City so give the credit to where it's due. Even Mourinho when he was still young and fresh he was coaching teams that have lots of money but after so many coaches found out about his style of player he became a fired special one in every team he manages [ko]
sambclntuy
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MOURINHO goes to any team with his style WHILST GUARDIOLA is an opportunist, he makes sure a team is well developed or an Arab owned so he can get anything he wishes for.
U fool all the top 6 teams have a bigger net spend than mancity. Yall just be wasting the money(speaking as an arsenal fan)
Voebekpyz
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Mourinho must shut up He was outclassed in Laliga and EPL He is a straw weight when it comes to GUARDIOLA He won fairly , he says, who was playing with 30 players in every game. Mr Excuse What's wrong with Portuguese? They always want to be seen as the best even when everything points out that they are not
Slow-Kelvin_10
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MOURINHO goes to any team with his style WHILST GUARDIOLA is an opportunist, he makes sure a team is well developed or an Arab owned so he can get anything he wishes for.
Mourinho failed to win UCL at Madrid, failed to win EPL at United, failed to win UCL at Chelsea … these clubs are super broke clubs
lekabemors
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Jose Mourinho is the Best. Bring Jose Mourinho at the club and give him money to buy players he can work with. i tell you in 2 years, Mourinho will lift Champions League 🏆 This current Chelsea FC owners are not stingy with money. The way current Chelsea FC owners have spent money on buying players,if it was Jose Mourinho in charge Chelsea FC was supposed to be in champions league and 🔝 in EPL
nellomcfc
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Mourinho won UCL with Porto and Inter. UECL with Roma. Guardiola managed the golden era of Barcelona who were developed during Rijkaard era players like Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Eto etc, so he got a golden plate of players. Also half of those squad was Spainsh which coincide with Spainsh National Team golden era. And he also had Messi who was the best player in the world back then, so winning with these players is not a big deal. Guardiola then went to Bayern, can't even reach UCL final with them given that they won the 2013 UCL and were 3 times finalist in last four seasons. Now don't tell me winning Bundesliga is a achivement. Bayern are doing it every year with or without Pep. Then he came to Man City and he took 7 years to win UCL with them after spending Billions of pounds. So Guardiola is not a great coach, he manages great teams of teams with great financial power. Guardiola always gets the food ready at his table or nice money to buy the food. Mourinho always has to prepare his own food. Mourinho is great than Guardiola. I can't even imagine if Mourinho was the Man City manager and had he taken 7 years to win a European final what the media would have done of him.
How many trophies did Mourinho also win at Madrid with all the world class players at his disposal?
Wiseman5000
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Poor response, the allegations weren’t even committed during the pep’s spell at city. So mr mourihno you’re deluded.
another useless idiot, mourihno was at Real .. Chelsea, inter Milan so those teams were shit ? Madrid have all the best players today are they winning all games? pep is the greatest manager ever .. cry as you want