Jose Mourinho has taken the opportunity to snipe at Antonio Conte once again.
The Chelsea boss was quoted in the Metro discussing the development of young players in Premier League first teams, and used Chelsea as an example of why there needs to be a balance between youth and experience at the top level.
The Manchester United manager pointed out that both Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kurt Zouma have played fewer minutes this season than last season. His point is that Antonio Conte has been forced to play older players to win the title, rather than just playing youth, but it’s a fairly disingenuous point to make: Kurt Zouma has been injured for more than half of that time, and Ruben Loftus-Cheek has played a similar amount to last term.
It’s not like Jose threw the title for the sake of young players last term anyway – we had a disastrous season and barely blooded a single player.
