“The Past Is The Past” – Like Shaw
Written by Jacobs Dunga
Manchester united left back, Luke Shaw has hit back at his former manager, Jose Mourinho who openly criticised him during England’s last group game again the Czech Republic.
The pair had a strained relationship while at United with Shaw having the lowest points of his career thus far under the Portuguese manager.
Mourinho would constantly criticise the left back saying he was lazy and had no understanding of the game with the England defender showing great conduct while enduring all the criticism from his former boss.
Shaw expressed shock over Jose’s recent criticism of him saying the newly appointed Roma boss has to move on.
“I think he was a brilliant manager but, you know, the past is the past. It is time to move on. I am trying to move on but, obviously, he can’t.”
Jose, working as a pundit for a radio station condemned Shaw’s set piece deliveries saying they were “very poor” and “dramatically bad” which prompted a reaction from the former Southampton man.
“I don’t really understand it, to be honest,” he said. “I don’t know why he is still going on and wanting to point at me. I don’t feel like the set-pieces were as bad as he was saying.
“I might have done one in the second half, a corner, that didn’t get over the first man. But that was one out of three. The other two or three, I don’t think, were as ‘dramatically bad’ as he says. The Defender who had just 11 appearances in each of his two full seasons under Jose said he’s used to The acclaimed special one saying negative things about him.
“Look, he has got to do his job. He has got his opinion. I am used to him saying negative stuff about me now, so I just pass it by. I leave it be, I ignore it. I just focus on what the coaching staff say here, what Gareth says and that’s that, really. He continued by adding that “His voice is obviously very big. He likes to talk a lot about me, as everyone has seen recently. But his voice is his own. He can say what he wants.”
Shaw admitted the relationship had never been rosy saying the Portuguese tactician should find peace and focus on his future.
“There is no hiding that we didn’t get on,” he added
“He continuously talks about me, which I find quite strange. Even some of the lads have said ‘what’s his problem?’ and ‘why does he keep talking?'”He just needs to move on. Hopefully he can find his peace with that and finally move on and stop worrying about me. Clearly I am in his head a lot and he clearly thinks about me a lot.”
Shaw said he has since moved past it and is focused on the task ahead when he was asked if he can now handle fresh criticism. “Yes, because I don’t think any of you realise the two or three years I had with him and how bad it was then, what it was like then. What he says now is nothing compared to how it used to be. I am being totally honest. I am so past it now. I have grown up a lot. The three years I had with him, I learnt a lot. I find it easy to ignore him now and even laugh about it. But it’s better just to ignore it and move on with my life.”
Shaw lines out for England against Germany on Tuesday with the hope of progressing past the Germany to the quarter finals
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