Jose Mourinho says Arsenal have to poke fun at Tottenham as their source of joy because they have none of their own.
The Gunners appeared to ridicule Spurs’ Thursday defeat at Sheffield United in a Facebook post showcasing their own win at Bramall Lane last weekend.
The highlights of that 2-1 FA Cup quarter-final win were accompanied on Friday morning by a clear jibe at their north London rivals saying “It’s not easy beating Sheffield United at Bramall Lane”.
Mourinho took the bait when he was asked about it at a press conference to preview tonight’s Premier League match with Everton and stoked the fires ahead of Sunday’s north London derby.
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“I think if they were top of the league or fighting for top four in a good moment they wouldn’t enjoy the problems of others,” he said.
“You only enjoy the problems of others when you are also in trouble. In the end it says more about them, they don’t have much to celebrate.
“They are in a very similar situation to us in the table.”
Mourinho said that it would not have been any one from the playing side who hit send on the post.
“I don’t like to connect the club with some post or tweet,” he added. “Maybe I am wrong, maybe I am right, but the person that did it probably did by themselves.
“I don’t believe that was Arteta that posted, I don’t believe it was Xhaka or another captain.
“It was probably some guy that was at home for three months working from home.”
Sunday’s north London derby at Spurs could go a long way to deciding who attains Europa League qualification.
“To be the champion of north London means nothing for me because I think you have to be much bigger than that and have much more ambitions than that,” Mourinho said.
“Yes I would like to finish in a better position in the table than them. But again I want my team to be bigger than that, I want my club to feel bigger than that.”
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