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Pellegrini has continued his running feud with Jose Mourinho by criticising
his rival's approach to winning.
Pellegrini believes Mourinho wanted personal credit and attention for
winning the Premier League title – something the Chilean insists he did not
do the previous year when City won the same competition.
The City boss complained about Chelsea's defensive tactics when they faced
his side last season – but the pair's war of words goes back to 2010 when
Mourinho succeeded Pellegrini as Real Madrid boss. They went toe-to-toe for
the first time in March 2011 when Real Madrid beat Malaga 7-0.
"When he wins, Mourinho wants to take credit for everything," Pellgrini told
Chile's El Mercurio newspaper. "I never do that. When I won the Premier
League, I didn’t say a word.
"I don’t have any problem with Mourinho. He’s not my enemy and there isn’t
any conflict – but I differ from him on all fronts. I have no interest in
analysing him as a person."
Mourinho poked fun at his Manchester City in his end-of-season awards dinner
speech, saying: "After that there was another team (wearing sky blue shirts)
that were less radical and they asked to play only with one goal.
"They were fantastic and they scored a lot of goals and the goals were
coming from every position and they score and they score and they score, but
they never conceded goals, because... no goal.
“Again, the international board told them, 'I'm sorry, you can't be
champions because football is with two goals'.
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