José Mourinho targets Barça over Negreira affair

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By: Manu Tournoux

Returning to Real Madrid this summer, José Mourinho will soon have new problems with the referees. The last defeat against Atlético de Madrid, where certain decisions of the refereeing body may have been surprising, proved this. As soon as the derby was over, the Casa Blanca technician attacked the men in charge of game decisions.To be honest, I don’t think I’m the problem. I think the problem is bad luck… and happening at certain times in certain clubs», he argues in an interview with Corriere dello Sport.

According to him, he is the victim of a system and makes a direct reference to the Negreira affair, named after this referee paid by FC Barcelona for consulting services between 2001 and 2018.I arrived at Real Madrid during the worst Negreira years. I remember that no one knew anything about it, but we felt it and lived it. As soon as I left, everyone knew», affirms the Special One, decidedly a victim almost everywhere he goes. “Then in Türkiye, the big scandal… and once again, everyone knew about it after I left Fenerbahçe.»