Adrian Mutu calls Jose Mourinho a 'fake,' claims manager is 'finished'

Adrian Mutu, watching Chelsea's trainwreck of a season from India, isn't Jose Mourinho's biggest fan.

In an interview with the Daily Mirror, the Romanian forward, featuring at Pune City of the Indian Super League, didn't hesitate to criticise the Special One, referring to his former manager as "fake" and "finished" among other things.

"He has been a great coach in the past, but as a person, he is fake," Mutu said, according to The Independent. "He only looks after himself, and has no consideration for how his players are feeling and thinking. You could not go and talk to him. As a coach, he is finished. There is no way back for him. How do you come back from something like this (current form)?

"You can see now how many of his players look unhappy. Why? He is the reason. He cannot talk to players like they should be spoken to. The first thing he does is he goes to the biggest player in his team, and tries to make him angry. No matter who it was, John Terry, Frank Lampard, it is just what he does for fun. That was just his way of doing things, and he won't change for anyone."

When Mutu played under Mourinho at Chelsea during the 2003-04 Premier League season, the pair did not see eye to eye. Mutu accused Mourinho of saying he was injured to prevent him from playing in a World Cup qualifier, and the player was sacked from the club after a positive cocaine test resulted in a seven-month worldwide football ban.