"If a manager had said something like that, I would have to say that he had absolutely no knowledge of the game," he said. "You simply don't talk like that and a football man would know not to say things like that. He is not a football man.
"If a manager had come out with this, it would probably have bothered me more.
"But Mourinho would never have been silly enough to say it anyway. As it's not the manager who has said it, we should dismiss it."