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José Mourinho hits out at Spain’s handling of Diego Costa injury | José Mourinho hits out at Spain’s handling of Diego Costa injury |
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José Mourinho has spoken of his simmering discontent over uncommunicative national team managers concerning the treatment of Chelsea players in the continued absence of the striker Diego Costa. | |
The Spain striker will miss Tuesday’s Champions League Group G home match against Maribor with a hamstring problem that has plagued him persistently this season. | |
Mourinho believes it was exacerbated by playing against Slovakia and Luxembourg during the international break and took a swipe at the Spain manager, Vicente del Bosque. | |
“It’s the same problem that he’s having but now an injury, not an almost injury,” said Mourinho, who is uncertain when Costa will return. | |
“It’s simple. He’s not training because he’s not in condition to do it. Tomorrow he cannot play. Let’s see what happens for next weekend but next weekend is not important. I don’t have Manchester United [on Sunday in the Premier League] in mind. I have Maribor in mind.” | |
Costa has scored nine goals in seven Premier League games but was absent for Saturday’s win at Crystal Palace. | |
Chelsea have the same squad as at Palace for their first fixture with a Slovenian side, with the Nigeria midfielder Mikel John Obi (foot) absent and the Brazil midfielder Ramires (groin) and the Germany forward André Schürrle (illness) also missing despite training on Monday. | |
It is the situation regarding Costa which appears to be frustrating Mourinho most. “Sometimes you have national coaches and medical departments that want to establish a relationship and they are interested in the players, their physical condition, their habits. Some others they simply don’t care. This is not something we can resolve. | |
“In this moment, since the beginning of the season, I think from all the national teams, I think [I have received] one phone call from Roy [Hodgson].” | |
Mourinho declined to reveal details of the conversation with Hodgson but the defender Gary Cahill was carrying an ankle injury at the start of September before England’s match with Switzerland. | |
Mourinho revealed how the Croatia manager, Igor Stimac, called him three times a week about the midfielder Luca Modric when he was Real Madrid manager as an example of communication. | |
“It hurts,” Mourinho said. “You are not happy when you give players in good condition and you receive the players in bad condition.” | |