”Mourinho Likes To Talk About Others” Benitez

Rafa Benitez has branded Jose Mourinho a specialist in European failure – and mocked the Chelsea’s boss’s claims that he needs to spend more money to build a winning team.

The Spaniard  hit back after Mourinho claimed the Blues had underperformed under Bentiez, despite winning the Europa League.

The two have a running feud from the Portuegues first spell in English football when Benitez’s Liverpool twice knocked them out of the Champions League.

Mourinho has twice won the competition – with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010. But Benitez, who won the Champions League with Liverpool in 2005, said: “Mourinho talks a lot about a lot of people, but I prefer to talk about facts. At Liverpool, with a squad half of the value of Chelsea, we twice knocked his Chelsea side out of the Champions League.

“Later, with the most expensive squad at Real Madrid, he did nothing in the Champions League. Now he says if there is an offer of hundreds of millions for Hazard and Oscar, maybe he can build a strong squad to win something.”

Asked about Chelsea’s weekend defeat after his Napoli beat Juventus, Benitez told Italian TV: “I am happy for Liverpool – I have lots of friends there.”