The Special Ones: Guardiola is the superior of the two according to Valdano Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has been subjected to a scathing attack by a Real Madrid legend.
Jorge Valdano, sacked as Sporting Director after a power struggle with the Special One while both were at the Bernabeu, said the Blues' chief is an "ego" who has never said anything "about about football worth remembering."
Valdano won the World Cup with Argentina and coached Real Madrid to the Spanish League title in 1995 as well as having two spells at the club as an administrator.
He writes in his new book The 11 Powers of a League: "He's a figure who is perfectly suited to these bombastic, shallow times.
"I couldn't understand him because he is in the antithesis of my sensitivity. Intelligence and ego are enemies. And when they collide, the ego wins."
But, comparing Mourinho with his great rival Pep Guardiola, Valdano said: "If Guardiola is Mozart, that makes Mourinho [Italian composer Antonio] Salieri. He would have been a great musician if Mozart had never existed."
And he continued: "I've never heard him say a single thing about football worth remembering, whether in public or in private".
In an interview to promote the book, Valdano said: "He had one of the best squads in the history of Real Madrid.
"He always remained just outside the door of the Champions League. That was the big challenge which he did not manage to succeed at."
Mourinho, who lifted the Champions League trophy at Porto and Inter Milan, only ever reached the semi-finals of the competition with Real while Guardiola, now aat Bayern Munich, delivered the Champions League twice in three years for Barcelona.
Valdano was sacked in May 2011 after clashing with Mourinho and his coaching staff, and the move increased Mourinho's power base at the club at the time.
Source: Mirror UK
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