
{"id":3100,"date":"2014-03-28T14:09:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2014-03-28T14:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T14:10:49","slug":"mourinho-says-villa-game-will-cost-chelsea-tittle-tips-city-for-tittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/mourinho-says-villa-game-will-cost-chelsea-tittle-tips-city-for-tittle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho Says Villa Game will Cost Chelsea Tittle. Tips City For Tittle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is not concerned about the possibility of a summer swoop from Paris Saint-Germain for Eden Hazard and Oscar, but says he will to listen to an offer of \u00a3300million for the highly-rated duo.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea face PSG in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and ahead of the clash, Lucas Moura and Yohan Cabaye have been vocal in their desire to see Hazard and Oscar move to the Ligue 1 side.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues however, have no desire to sell either Hazard and Oscar and will be angered opponents have publicly courted two of their key stars.\u00a0And speaking ahead of Chelsea&#8217;s trip to Crystal Palace, Mourinho re-iterated that stance unless PSG tabled an astronomical offer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No. It&#8217;s not irritating. No problem,&#8217; said Mourinho. &#8216;If there is Financial Fair Play, they don&#8217;t have money to buy them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If there is no Financial Fair Play and they threw something crazy, \u00a3300million for both, I think Chelsea has to think about it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho believes referee Chris Foy&#8217;s performance in the defeat at Aston Villa could cost Chelsea the title.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League leaders Chelsea lost 1-0 at Villa Park in a match which saw Mourinho sent to the stands following the dismissals of Willian and Ramires.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho maintains Manchester City are title favourites and Liverpool have a strong chance, while he refused to rule out Arsenal despite hammering the Gunners 6-0 last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>If the Blues are beaten by one or two points in the title race, Mourinho will look no further than this month&#8217;s defeat at Aston Villa, which still leaves him seething at the performance of referee Foy.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the Villa match could be pinpointed as costly come the end of the season, Mourinho said: &#8216;Yes, because the other matches we lost because we didn&#8217;t play well, because the opponent was better than us, because we missed big chances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you go to the other matches you find the natural reasons for losing a match, if you go to the Villa match it&#8217;s difficult.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What happened in the defeat against Villa I never learn, I never accept.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0&#8216;Somebody was very successful in putting a hurdle in front of us. And we crashed the hurdle against Aston Villa and we lost.<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;Villa was not a normal football match and we always hope that football matches are normal.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho will face a personal Football Association disciplinary hearing at the end of next week to challenge his improper conduct charge issued following his dismissal at Villa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you lose in the right way you have to move on and try not to lose again,&#8217; said Mourinho, who faces a \u00a310,000 fine for his second sending-off of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The only thing I didn&#8217;t learn is to lose with that kind of referee performance, because it&#8217;s not a mistake, it&#8217;s a performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I learn to control my emotions and I learn to calm down in the moment like I did, but I don&#8217;t learn how to accept that kind of performance.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is not concerned about the possibility of a summer swoop from Paris Saint-Germain for Eden Hazard and Oscar, but says he will to listen to an offer of \u00a3300million for the highly-rated duo. 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