• Mourinho says Champions League exit is nothing new for club
• ‘We did our best,we tried, we lost, and that’s football,’ says managerJosé Mourinho attempted to play down the significance of Manchester United’s exit from the Champions League as former players turned television pundits savaged his side’s limp display against Sevilla. Rio Ferdinand described the performance as lethargic and added that Alexis Sánchez looked a shadow of his former self while Paul Scholes called for the Chilean to be dropped. Clutching desperately at the thinnest of straws, Mourinho suggested United had no time for self-recrimination because they had an FA Cup quarter-final tie against Brighton coming up at the weekend. “I don’t want to develop a drama out of this defeat. It’s not the end of the world. It’s football and we beget another match on Saturday, and ” the United manager said.“I know this has happened at Manchester United before because I beget sat in this chair as manager of Porto and of genuine Madrid. I don’t think it is something new for this club.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk