Simon Jordan wasn’t best pleased with Jose Mourinho digging at Tottenham Hotspur.
It has been two years since Daniel Levy booted the trophy-winning manager from Tottenham’s dugout and it’s something that still stings with him today.
In a recent interview with former Chelsea midfielder, John Obi Mikel, the now-Roma coach labelled it ‘the most ridiculous’ that he was sacked by Spurs days before their League Cup final against Manchester City.
Before firing further shots at the London club by stating they have an ‘empty trophy room’ and how it has been ’50 years’ since they last won a league title, as he told The One Obi Podcast.
Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan, who is friends with Daniel Levy, was quick to shut down the outspoken manager by telling him to ‘get it right’ and reminding him that Spurs won the League Cup in 2008 and the FA Cup in 1991.
Simon Jordan was also keen to point out that the reason Jose Mourinho was booted out of the door from Hotspur Way was because the players went to the owner and asked for him to be sacked, as he told talkSPORT.
But it wasn’t just one-way criticism from the English businessman, who also likened the 60-year-old to boxing great, Mohammed Ali.
Why Daniel Levy sacked Jose Mourinho at Tottenham
“Jose is advancing his particular notion,” said Jordan. “First of all, Tottenham won the League Cup in 2008 and the FA Cup in 1991, so it’s not a case of 50 years. Get it right, Jose.
“But I would have asked him, is it true that the players got so fed up with you that they went to the owner and said they didn’t want to play for you anymore?
“I think he knows why he got binned at Tottenham. I just think he is self-effacing to everybody, more often than not, there is a media face and then there is the face behind the scenes of being able to attend to the circumstances you find yourself in.
“What’s he going to do? It’s not Jose Mourinho’s stock and trade, and neither should it be, quite frankly for him to be self-effacing. His stock and trade has been to walk into a room and go ‘I am not one of for the bottle. I am the special one’.
“And then to antagonise everybody by delivering precisely what he said was going to deliver, which had been unheard of, at the time. He was the Muhammed Ali of football management. He walked into a room, told everyone what he was going to do, told everybody he was the greatest thing and went about proceeding to prove that point.”
Daniel Levy at Tottenham
It has been over two decades since Levy sat in the hotseat at White Hart Lane, yet the club only have one trophy to show for it.
Yes, the likes of Mourinho and Antonio Conte can be argumentative. They can rub people up the wrong way. But they deliver trophies.
And whilst everything is rosy in Spurs’ garden now, especially with Ange Postecoglou and the style of football he has brought to the table.
As soon as results start going the wrong way, the criticism from the fans will soon turn towards Levy because it wasn’t so long ago that the supporters were calling for their heads.
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