Cameroon
ace Eto’o has been criticised for comments he made earlier in his career,
suggesting he would “rather sell groundnuts” in his village than play for a “pathetic
team like Chelsea”, while Mourinho was in charge. The 32-year-old
Samuel
Eto’o has revealed that he hated Jose Mourinho before working alongside
him at Inter Milan.
Mourinho in 2009/2010 inspired Inter
to the treble, and did so with Eto’o performing convincingly despite being out
of position at the right of a front three and having been recruited as Zlatan
Ibrahimovic’s replacement.
It was during their incredibly successful,
albeit brief, time together in Italy that Eto’o's opinion of Mourinho so
strongly changed but before then, largely due to the Portuguese’s rivalry with
Barcelona when he was last Chelsea’s manager, the striker once said he wouldn’t
even consider playing for him.
‘Before
meeting at Inter, we didn’t know each other personally, so our relationship was
tense,’ Eto’o told The Sun. ‘I even said one time that I’d never play for a
club where Jose was coach.
‘But God knows best. He wanted to show
me that I was wrong and today Jose is a friend. Now he’s my coach again.’
The prolific Eto’o arrived at Chelsea for
£7million from Anzhi Makhachkala at the end of the transfer window following
the club’s failed summer-long pursuit of Wayne Rooney.
There have been times in the
Cameroonian’s career that he has been accused of being a problematic influence
and it is this that contributed to his 2009 departure from Barca but at Inter,
under Mourinho, his commitment was consistently clear.
Eto’o was incidentally strongly
linked with Chelsea as the club sought a new striker in 2006, when Adriano was
also under consideration, before Andriy Shevchenko was eventually signed for
£30m.
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Cameroon
ace Eto’o has been criticised for comments he made earlier in his
career, suggesting he would “rather sell groundnuts” in his village than
play for a “pathetic team like Chelsea”, while Mourinho was in charge. The 32-year-old
Samuel Eto’o has revealed that he hated Jose Mourinho before working alongside him at Inter Milan.
Mourinho in 2009/2010 inspired Inter to the treble, and did so with Eto’o performing convincingly despite being out of position at the right of a front three and having been recruited as Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s replacement.It was during their incredibly successful, albeit brief, time together in Italy that Eto’o's opinion of Mourinho so strongly changed but before then, largely due to the Portuguese’s rivalry with Barcelona when he was last Chelsea’s manager, the striker once said he wouldn’t even consider playing for him.
‘Before meeting at Inter, we didn’t
know each other personally, so our relationship was tense,’ Eto’o told
The Sun. ‘I even said one time that I’d never play for a club where Jose
was coach.
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