The recently-axed former Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has weighed in on what is perhaps the most dead horse to ever receive a flogging, the Messi V Ronaldo debate.
Speaking as part of his first television appearance since he slinked out of the Lowry Hotel and left his time in the North behind him, he said:
“I think it’s unfair to both of them when somebody tells [says] ‘this one is better than the other one’. I think they’re just different.
“When I had Ronaldo on my side I was a very happy man. But when I had to play against Messi I had to think a lot to try and help my team to have chances to succeed.
“The thing to admire is the number of years that they’ve stayed at the top.
“You can have a boom and you appear like a hurricane but then you disappear. These two guys have been there for ten years and everything is about them I think until the moment they decide ‘enough is enough’ and other people can raise the bar.”
The former Chelsea and Inter Milan gaffer, not content with that truly dull input, revealed his wishes for his own career in the short term.
“I want to coach. I belong to top-level football and [that] is where I am going to be.”
“I am too young, I am in football for a long, long time but I will be 56 in a couple of weeks and am really too young.”