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”Stop City From Spending” Mourinho Tells EUFA

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has urged European football governing body UEFA to enforce the Financial Fair Play law to allow other teams compete favourably with Manchester City.

The Chelsea boss, whose team faces City later Monday night said if football authorities don’t want any team to compete with City, then it would be impossible for any club to challenge Pellegrini side.

“If they (football’s authorities) want to make it impossible to compete with City, it’s impossible,” he said.

“Chelsea are not competing outside what is important for us, the ‘fair’ Financial Fair Play.

“We are working, thinking and believing that Financial Fair Play is going to be in practice.

“So there are things that are impossible for us (to do).”Mourinho said.

The former Real Madrid manager speaks from experience after recruiting many players for large sums during his first spell as Chelsea boss at the start of Roman Abramovich’s Russian revolution.

When Mourinho first worked in England he admits “it was a free world”.

He added: “There was no Financial Fair Play. If your club was a rich one, your owner a rich one, there were no rules. It was an open situation.”

It meant Chelsea were unpopular, but City are attracting admirers with their attacking brand of football.

Could this be part of the special one’s ”mind game” ahead of Monday night crucial top-of the table battle at the Etihad? 90 minutes of explosive Monday night football will tell.