Mourinho angry at secret recording

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho said it was a "disgrace" a private conversation in which he appeared to criticise his strikers was broadcast on French TV. Mourinho said he was joking when he complained about Chelsea's lack of strikers and made an unflattering comment about Samuel Eto'o's age. Continue reading the main story “The comment is not obviously a good one, not one I would do in a serious way, not something I would do in an official way” Jose Mourinho &qu;It was a funny conversation with somebody that doesn't belong to the football world," Mourinho said. "It is a disgrace that someone is taping a private conversation." Speaking ahead of his side's Champions League last-16 tie against Galatasaray on Wednesday, Mourinho told the assembled media they should be "embarrassed" by the way French broadcaster Canal Plus published comments he had made about his players during a conversation eight days ago in Switzerland. In the initial video Mourinho said: "The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Eto'o but he is 32 years old, maybe 35, I don't know." But in Tuesday's news conference the Portuguese boss backed Eto'o, 32, and underlined that the Cameroon forward had played twice under him. At Inter, they won Serie A, the Italian Cup and the Champions League together, before the striker joined Chelsea on a free transfer from Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala last summer. "I'm not defending what I'm saying. I'm attacking something that is, I think, fundamental in your professional area and that person showed exactly what he is or what he does not know about the job," Mourinho continued.