"He has won little and is old." Mourinho on Ranieri

In the latest war of words, two former Chelsea bosses, as the Italians say, had no hair on their tongues. The first comment was made by Claudio Ranieri after Juventus lost, 0 x 3, to Hamburg in the Emirates Cup in a strange reference to Jose Mourinho.

The Special One responded accordingly. ;-)

"Non ho bisogno di vincere per essere sicuro di quello che faccio, a me va bene prendere uno schiaffo, lo scorso anno ne abbiamo presi tanti e abbiamo reagito".

"Sono in Italia per lavorare non per fare una guerra di parole. Voglio far bene con l’Inter, il meglio possibile per noi e dimenticare il lavoro degli altri. Ranieri? Ha comunque ragione per quello che dice: io sono molto esigente con me stesso e ho bisogno di vincere per avere sicurezza delle cose. Per questo ho vinto tante trofei nella mia carriera. Lui ha, invece, la mentalità di uno che non ha bisogno di vincere e a quasi settanta anni ha vinto una Supercoppa e un’altra piccola Coppa. È troppo vecchio per cambiare mentalità".

Source: La Gazzetta dello Sport, 4 August 2008

"I don't have the need to win to be secure in what I do, for me it is okay take an insult, last year we took many and we reacted."

"I am in Italy to work and not to make a war of words. I want to do well with Inter, the best possible for us and forget the work of the others. Ranieri? He is correct for what he said: I am very tough on myself and I have the need to win to have security in things. For this reason I have won many trophies in my career. He has, on the other hand, the mentality of one who doesn't have the need to win and at almost 70 years, has one one SuperCup and another small Cup. He is too old to change mentality."

Italian translation by Steve Amoia.

For the sake of accuracy, Mister Ranieri is 57 years of age. Did Mister Mourinho mean "sessanta" instead of "settanta?" His Italian is rather good. In fact, Rino Gattuso said "He speaks better Italian than I do and I was born here."