Jose Mourinho's call and dismissal to Galatasaray after the derby: We saw what happened with a foreign referee

Creation Date: February 24, 2025 23:07

Fenerbahçe 's coach Jose Mourinho made a statement after the 0-0 draw with Galatasaray in the Super League.

Here are Jose Mourinho 's statements;

It was a very good match, the reason for this was a very good referee performance. He had enough honesty. Very high-level players are turning into profiles that I do not defend. We have an 18-year-old player, he will be a good name for Turkish football, but they tried to show him a card from the first minute. But the referee managed the match very well in this environment that we can call a forest. Considering the viewers at home and in Europe, it was a good match.

THEY PLAYED FOR A DRAW

They played for a draw, they are very happy. We are not happy. Galatasaray defended well, Muslera saved the clearest position well. We could have come out of the defense well. We were very good defensively. If our young player had made a mistake, people could have killed me and him.

NOT CLEAN BUT GOOD ORGANIZATION

Under normal conditions, this league is still there. If referees in Turkey look at the performance of this referee, self-criticize and say, 'I want to manage a clean and honest match like this referee', the season will end well and excitingly. If the circus we have seen since the beginning of the year continues, it will be different. I saw what they did in every behavior. It is not clean, but it is a good organization.

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DISASTER WITH A TURKISH REFEREE

After the match I went to the referee's room. I said to Slavko Vincic, 'Thank you for coming here and refereeing this big match.' The Turkish referee was there too. Then I turned to him and said, 'If a Turkish referee had refereed this match, it would have been a disaster.'

WE SAW WITH A FOREIGN REFEREES

If Galatasaray wants to say, 'We are very strong. We are a champion team', if they want to show this, if they want to be an example of this, they want a foreign referee for every match. Because we saw what happens when they have a foreign referee. They were eliminated from Europe. They have 1 shot against us in their own field.