Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has nothing but kind remarks for his Arsenal rival Arsene Wenger who announced earlier on Friday that he will quit his role at the end of the season after managing the Gunners for over two decades.
Mourinho and Wenger have clashed several times in the past and the Portuguese once referred to the Frenchman as a voyeur and a specialist in failure.
The two also had a shoving match in the Stamford Bridge technical area in October 2014 during Mourinho’s time with Chelsea.
Asked by reporters during his pre-match press conference on Friday ahead of the FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham if he regretted any of his conduct towards Wenger, Mourinho said: “It’s not about regretting, I think your question is a typical question from somebody that was not in this side, you were not a manager, a player, of course you don’t know the way we respect each other even when sometimes it doesn’t look like we don’t, players that get yellow cards and red cards by aggressive actions against each other, bad words during the career, the manager is the same thing but the ones that respect more each other are the ones with the problems.
“It’s power and ambition and quality against each other but in the end it’s people from the same business and respect each others’ careers, so it happened, what matters for me is the way I respect the person, the professional, the career and I always say that for some the memory is short.
“But for us football people, the real football people, who are the ones inside the four lines, playing, or the managers, or the refs, the others live on us, the football people don’t have short memory.
“I know what it means, three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups, what he did in Japan and France, what he brought to French football and what he gave to Arsenal in the period without PLs, the transition from stadium to stadium, we know what he did.
“If he’s happy with the decision, I’m really happy and I hope he doesn’t retire from football.”
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