Jose Mourinho doesn’t sound like the arm-around-the-shoulder kind of manager.
Mourinho has a reputation for losing the dressing room at every club he’s ever gone to and while it’s hard to argue with the results – with Mourinho winning league titles in England, Italy, Spain and Portugal – it’s not hard to see why some players fall out with him.
This week, Mourinho has been linked with an unlikely reunion with John Terry after missing out on a centre-half in the summer transfer window.
It looks more likely that Terry, who remains a free agent after parting ways with Aston Villa at the end of last season, will venture abroad rather than join Manchester United.
Terry obviously respects Mourinho as a manager but we can understand why the legendary defender is not rushing to reunite with the Portuguese.
Terry has revealed a story about how Mourinho once embarrassed him at a Chelsea training session, which tells you just how harsh he can be when he wants to.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Terry said: “At every club he has had big characters and I’m not sure he has that at Manchester United at the moment. At Chelsea, he did.
“He embarrassed me after one pre-season, after we had won a league title.
“He stopped the training session, came in, threw down his pad. ‘If you keep giving the ball away, I will go and buy someone for £50 million’.
“I am thinking, ‘I played every game for you last season! And now you’re trying to humiliate me!’ I didn’t understand why he was doing that, but my instinct was to run and give everything; flying into tackles, winning the ball.”
