Jose Mourinho renews feud with Pep Guardiola as he aims 'stupid' blast at rival

Jose Mourinho has appeared to risk reigniting his feud with Pep Guardiola by presenting a treaty on the modern game in which he highlighted the Manchester City coach and claimed: “If you die with your idea, you’re stupid.”

The Fenerbahce boss, who is on a training camp in Portugal, has said football has changed “radically” since the early days of his career and believes managers are now building reputations based entirely on their style than an ability to win.

And in an interview with Canal 11 the former Chelsea and Manchester United manager, who has not won a league title since his second spell at Stamford Bridge in 2014/15, said too much focus on an unwavering commitment to a set playing style will never be a recipe for success.

“Today, there's no such thing as a single game model,” he said. “There are many ways to play. There's no longer a tactical system, there are many ways to build and defend.

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“This means training in a much more tactical way, where players must grow and acquire new knowledge. The problem is wanting to copy and paste without the necessary conditions to do so.

"Playing from the back with a wooden goalkeeper is complicated. I remember Guardiola had Hart, the best English goalkeeper. But he wanted Claudio Bravo, but that wasn't enough. So he signed Ederson.

“There are coaches who try things that don't work and fail, but they say, 'I died with my idea.' If you die with your idea, you're stupid. Coaches have to adapt their ideas to what they have.”

Mourinho also took aim at managers arriving in the Premier League with set philosophies around how their teams should play but no record of winning trophies.

He added: “Today coaches whose names I don't even know go to the Premier League, and I don't say that without respect, it's true.

“Some coaches are chosen by dates, numbers, not by victories. Perceptions are created, and today the idea is sold that, more important than winning, is playing like this, looking like this... at that level, things have changed radically,"

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