Jose questions City's sums

Jose Mourinho has continued his war
of words with Manuel Pellegrini after
the Manchester City boss questioned
Chelsea's spending in January.
The Chelsea manager accused Pellegrini
of getting his sums wrong when he
suggested Mourinho may have fallen foul
of the financial fair play regulations
during the transfer window.
Pellegrini was responding to allegations
from his Chelsea counterpart that City
had benefitted from a number of
dubious refereeing decisions throughout
the season.
Mourinho has again hit back after a
weekend in which his side moved top of
the Premier League with a 3-0 win over
Newcastle while City were being held to a
goalless draw at lowly Norwich.
"What I would like to say that Pellegrini
was talking about the money we've
spent," said Mourinho.
"I think he's a
fantastic coach,
and I respect that
a lot, and on top
of that, outside
his football
career, he's an
engineer by
academic
formation.
"I don't think an engineer needs a
calculator to do [Juan] Mata £37million
and [Kevin] De Bruyne £18million, so
that's £55million.
"[Nemanja] Matic is £21million and
[Mohamed] Salah is £11million. That's
£32million, so 55 minus 32 is 23. So
Chelsea, in this transfer window,
generated £23million.
"It's easy to understand that this is
working with financial fair play, fair
financial fair play.
"There are no arguments against that.
This is what we're doing. Others aren't
doing the same. We are building a team
for the next decade, if possible. They
have a team to win now because they
don't have a team for 10 years.
"They have a team for now, for the next
three or four. So experience, potential,
power, not worried about Financial Fair
Play because, in the summer, they just
spend... We don't need a calculator for
this. It's easy. Plus 23.
"He has a fantastic team, fantastic
players, is a good manager. Has lots of
experience, so it's not a problem for
him. 13 matches are 39 points, and that's
an eternity in a league.
"He's been speaking about winning four
competitions, so there's no reason to
change the speech.
"But the only thing that is funny that he
keeps saying he never responds to
Mourinho, he never comments about
Mourinho. He said that in Spain, too. So,
he's changed."
Chelsea travel to struggling West Brom
on Tuesday night, and Mourinho is wary
that teams lower down the league can
still have a big influence on the destiny of
the title.
"Maybe the teams not in the top four
will be very influential in the league," he
said.
"Normally, people are pushed to say
Chelsea against Arsenal, or Arsenal
against City, or Liverpool against City.
These are the matches that decide
things. But maybe they aren't.
"In other leagues, it is like that. Madrid v
Barcelona decides the title. Benfica v
Porto decides the title. It's not the same
situation here. The title is decided match
after match.
"Every game is important. If we don't
win tomorrow, it's not just about the title
contenders to jump to the leadership
again.
"It's also about Tottenham to win,
Everton to win, and closing also the gap.
At this moment, every point is
important."
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"But the only thing that is funny
that he keeps saying he never
responds to Mourinho, he never
comments about Mourinho. He
said that in Spain, too. So, he's
changed."
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