Football pundit Stan Collymore has suggested that Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is jealous of the status that his Everton counterpart Ronald Koeman has at Barcelona.
Mourinho took a swipe at Koeman in his pre-match programme notes ahead of his side’s game against the Toffees this weekend when he claimed that the Merseyside club need to finish in the top four this season due to the amount of money that they have spent on recruiting new talent.
Koeman spent over £100 million on buying new players this summer such as Michael Keane, Sandro Ramirez, Jordan Pickford and Gylfi Sigurdsson. They have however struggled to deliver this season as the club has taken just four points from their opening five games.
Collymore has now revealed that he thinks that Mourinho took a personal dig at Koeman and said, “Koeman, a former Barca star, was and is revered at the Nou Camp, where Mourinho, disparagingly, was known to the players as ‘The Translator’.
“Mourinho will never get anywhere near Koeman in terms of his football pedigree or credibility within the walls of the Nou Camp.
“So Sunday’s jibe was his way of letting Koeman know who is the boss in the managerial department, intensified by Manchester United’s start to the season.”
