Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says modern players ‘behave like brats!’
Former Chelsea boss says the game is missing 'men' like Frank Lampard as the Special One demands more from youngsters
JOSE MOURINHO lays the law down to modern footballers and says they "act like brats" as the Manchester United boss slams their route to a professional contract.
The Special One believes youngsters are wrapped in cotton wool nowadays after being involved in coaching over the last 20 years.
The former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Porto boss believes footballers put themselves in bad surroundings at a young age.
Mourinho told France Football: "I had to adapt to a new world. To what young players are now.
"I had to understand the difference between working with a boy like Frank Lampard, who, at the age of 23 was already a man, who thought football, work, professionalism, and the new boys who at the age of 23 are kids.
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"Today I call them 'boys' not 'men'. Because I think that they are brats and that everything that surrounds them does not help them in their life nor in my work.
"I had to adjust to all that. Ten years ago, no player had a mobile phone in the dressing room. That is no longer the case.
"But you have to go with it because if you fight that, you are bringing about conflict and you put yourself in the stone age."
