Manchester United were crowned Champions this season, after Mourinho’s Chelsea won the title for the two previous years.
Chelsea had been criticised of “buying the title”, after spending hundreds of millions on transfers alone, let alone wages.
Manchester United have agreed terms for the signing of Hargreaves, Nani and Anderson. In total, this will cost United around the £30 million mark, with the fee increasing to £50 million based upon success and performance.
For the two years before this, Manchester United were only spending the money they had earnt from sales in the transfer market. This lead to Ferguson making astute signings in players such as Vidic (£7 million), Evra (£5 million) and Van der Sar (£2 million).
Mourinho today has embarrassingly claimed that it is Manchester United who are buying the title, adding to the argument that the Chelsea man is starting to lose his marbles. After the recent slanderous attacks on Cristiano Ronaldo and claims Liverpool aren’t a big club, Jose has more regretful comments to add to the list.
“I’m not worried,” Mourinho claimed. “I don’t even want to mention the fact that Chelsea are now spending nothing while United are spending a lot.
“They do their jobs and we do ours. I don’t care about their signings.
“United can only play with 11 players and if they played them all, Ryan Giggs would be out, which would make me very happy,” he added, trying to find the bright side.
“When Chelsea were spending, everybody said we had the obligation to win. ‘Chelsea are buying their titles,’ they said.
“Now I’m waiting to see if people put us in the last place of the title candidates as they have to put United first, Liverpool second — they haven’t spent much yet but they will — and then Arsenal, Tottenham, Aston Villa and Newcastle.”