Mourinho waits patiently for Conte handshake by changing rooms before kick-off
Chelsea coach Antonio Conte has deflected questions regarding his relationship with Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho ahead of the Premier League game between the two clubs at Old Trafford on Sunday.
Apart from the players, the cameras will be focused on Conte and Mourinho with both managers trading jibes earlier in the season.
The Portuguese gaffer says he’s ready to end the feud by shaking hands with Conte pre-match, so the Blues coach was asked if he was ready to bury the hatchet in Friday’s press conference.
”I am not interested in this (topic),” Antonio Conte told reporters.
On Mourinho, Conte said: ”I think in the past both have said things. For me it is ok, I am not interested about talking about this topic. ”
Meanwhile, Conte has talked up Paul Pogba’s qualities and insisted that it would be better for Chelsea if Jose Mourinho leaves him out of his starting XI tomorrow.
“My expectation is to see him on the pitch, if he stays out [of the XI] it will be better.
“As I said before, we are talking about a top player. Every coach has to find the right way to manage him. But I think that Pogba is showing at United that he is a top player.”
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