Manchester United star Luke Shaw has taken aim at Jose Mourinho after his former boss criticised his corner-taking ability.
It’s not often you have a player and a former manager of his involved in a public war of words, but with Mourinho having spoken so frankly about Shaw’s ability on set-pieces, the England left-back was well within his rights to reply.
As reported by The Sun, Mourinho had described Shaw’s corner-taking as “dramatically bad,” something which the Man United man was never going to take kindly to hearing.
While you’d ordinarily expect a player to bite his tongue and ignore it, Shaw has decided to face his enemy and fire back – publicly, just as Mourinho criticised him in the first place.
Shaw is quoted by The Sun saying:
“There is no hiding that we didn’t get on. It is time to move on. I am trying to move on but, obviously, he can’t.
“Hopefully he can find his peace with that and finally move and stop worrying about me. Clearly I am in his head a lot and he clearly thinks about me a lot.
“I don’t really understand it, to be honest. I don’t know why he is still going on and wanting to point at me. I don’t feel like the set pieces were as bad as he was saying.
“I might have done one in the second half, a corner that didn’t get over the first man.
“But that was one out of three. The other two or three, I don’t think, were as ‘dramatically bad’ as he says. Look, he has got to do his job. He has got his opinion.
“I am used to him saying negative stuff about me now, so I just pass it by. I leave it be, I ignore it. I just focus on what the coaching staff say here, what Gareth says and that’s that, really.”
Shaw has no reason to entertain what Mourinho says anymore – he’s no longer his manager. Though, it must get a little frustrating that he can’t seem to keep his name out of his mouth.
The former Southampton man is starting for Man United, he’s competing at a major tournament with England and he’s living rent free in the mind of a managerial icon. He has nothing to worry about whatsoever…
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