Jose Mourinho is envious of Gareth Ainsworth’s rock star hair – and the Tottenham boss rates his Wycombe counterpart as a coach too.
The two men, who meet in the FA Cup fourth round at Adams Park on Monday, are very different, but Mourinho said: “One thing is the coach and another thing is the man. The coach is good. You only stay in the club for so long [eight years] if you are good.
“He knows clearly the way he wants to play. He knows clearly how to take the best out of his players.
“Then the man. He looks to me a happy guy and if to be happy, part of his life is to play rock, to sing, to be part of that beautiful world which is the music, he just has to do it.
“I remember somebody was saying with a different haircut you are going to be seen as a great coach but I don’t think it has anything to do with the haircut.
“Pep Guardiola has no haircut. My haircut is always the same, old-fashioned, white-hair haircut, and he has this long rock star hair, amazing. I feel sorry I cannot sing with him because I [would] destroy his music.”
Wycombe are struggling on their first venture into the second tier, and they come into the game on the back of a two-week break due to a coronavirus outbreak at the club.
In theory, Spurs should have little problem getting past the Championship’s bottom side, especially as Mourinho is planning on playing a strong team, but he is keen to play down the gap in quality.
“We get more money than them and we are more exposed than them but in the end, they are professionals like we are.
“The Championship is one of the best leagues in the world. It is much better than many Premier Leagues in other countries, so I don’t look at Wycombe as a team that is going to try to kill the giant.”
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