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Manchester City manager, Manuel Pellegrini has joined Arsene Wenger in criticising Chelsea’s decision to sell Juan Mata to Manchester United and called for a change to the way the January transfer window operates.<\/span><\/p>\n ‘\u2018It is not correct at this stage of the season. Maybe Arsene Wenger had a correct reason, when he pointed out Chelsea have already played United home and away, but my argument is a more general one.” City manager said.<\/p>\n ‘\u2018I just think if a player plays for a club for more than half of the season, a club with money can take the best players from the other teams.” He added.<\/p>\n The Manchester City manager admitted United were signing a \u2018very good player\u2019 in \u00a337million playmaker Mata and described it as \u2018strange\u2019 that Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho had not picked him more often.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Jose Mourinho has hit back at Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, saying that Chelsea abide by the rules.<\/p>\n ”Wenger complaining is normal because he always does,” said Mourinho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manchester City manager, Manuel Pellegrini has joined Arsene Wenger in criticising Chelsea’s decision to sell Juan Mata to Manchester United and called for a change to the way the January transfer window operates. ‘\u2018It is not correct at this stage of the season. Maybe Arsene Wenger had a correct reason, when he pointed out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}