Mourinho: "I'm not jealous, but City paid €80m for Phillips and now they're giving him away"

Roma's head coach Jose Mourinho reacted sharply to the question about the winter transfer window.

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"The January transfer window? It's not that I want one thing and the owners want another. I'm not jealous, but Manchester City paid 80 million euros for Phillips, and now Pep wants to sell him to find someone else.

We have a completely different reality. I would like one, two, three, four players, we all want to try to improve the team, to become stronger, but it's hard for us to do that. I'll be honest. If we sign a defender in January, I will be happy. Of course, I would like to do more, but it is impossible," Mourinho was quoted as saying by Football Italia.

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