Manchester United Manger Jose Mourinho hardly ever apologizes to anybody, and he rarely admits wrong-doing, but earlier this month he did go full on public mea culpa regarding his treatment of Bastian Schweinsteiger.
In our interview with Schweinsteiger on the 8th, the German legend said that Mourinho’s apology conveyed the man’s “character,” and he described what happened at Old Trafford as “an unfortunate situation.”
Today, Schweinsteiger said publicly that he has no regrets over his time at United. Of course, it wasn’t so much anything Mourinho ever said about Schweinsteiger, but in fact what he did.
Mourinho humiliated the German icon by forcing him to train with the U21s, and then, at times, saying in interviews that Schweinsteiger really stood no chance at all of getting in his first team.
Obviously, Schweinsteiger has no hard feelings about how the Portugese has treated him, and if he can be okay with Mourinho, then so can any and all of the United players who have been thrown under the bus by the manager this season.
At least, in theory, but you never really know. Defender Luke Shaw is the individual player who has been called out the most this season, and been publicly criticized the most heavily. Anthony Martial and Henrikh Mkhitaryan have been recipients of very public dressing downs as well.
How do these players feel about getting ripped so harshly in public? Mourinho says that he doesn’t care.
In an interview with Sky Sports Jose Mourinho said:
“I don’t care. I just try to be who I am. I try to be honest and direct. I don’t think about the consequences. Give me everything, I’m happy for that. If you don’t I ask you for more. It is just common sense. When you give everything you have I cannot demand more.”
“Even Marcus [Rashford] not performing very well — he was giving everything. I could never demand more. I could only support and say better days will arrive. I was always super happy with the approach. Some other guys don’t give everything they have. They have to.”
So there you have it, Jose Mourinho doesn’t care what his players think about his tough love. Thus one can infer that he doesn’t care what the general public outside of Old Trafford thinks of it either. Of course, you already knew that Mourinho doesn’t really care what people think of him though.
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