Mourinho explains why he snubbed Wenger handshake

Arsène Wenger has recommended that José Mourinho check the “real statistics” if he wants to scrutinise Arsenal’s transfer policy, citing his record of developing young players and adding that he does not think it worth listening to the Chelsea manager.

While Arsenal fans craved a victory over Chelsea and Mourinho, they also wanted to see a significant Cech save and it finally arrived with just over 20 minutes remaining after Coquelin had fouled Hazard to concede a free-kick.

“In this instance, it is simply that the pitch is less mature than we would ordinarily wish for football, given the summer concert season and the early start to the football calendar”.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s only goal of the game secured a 1-0 win for the Gunners against the Premier League champions at Wembley on Sunday afternoon.

Chelsea play a friendly against Fiorentina this week as Mourinho completes his preseason preparations, with the coach admitting after the Arsenal game that his players were not quite at their peak.

“There was a trophy on the line”, said the 34-year-old, whose side host Swansea on Saturday in their opening Premier League fixture. In fact, they basically poached several pages out of the Chelsea manual by firstly getting themselves snuck in front and then withstanding pressure with a display of resolute defending.

Mourinho said afterwards that it was “not a story”, but the Portuguese insists it is not something he would ever do and also made reference to Wenger pushing him on the touchline last season. Arsenal are a fantastic club with great players. Fabregas did his best to be creative, but I worry that Chelsea need another creative force to take the burden off Fabregas and Hazard.

“We won against a good team, we won another trophy…so that’s positive”.

Ramsey revealed that Wenger believes a more cautious approach, which they adopted to close out the Chelsea match – prompting Mourinho to criticise Arsenal for abandoning their attacking philosophy – is the key to defeating the big guns. If you want to be pragmatic, like I normally am, I say in a simple way, they score, they didn’t concede.

‘I was doing what I think the status of my club and my status as a manager have to do, which is be there for the winners, to wait for them, ‘ said Mourinho.

“A lot of our priority this season is to challenge for the Premier League“, he told

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