Mourinho: ‘Congratulations to Napoli, they’ve already won the league’

What if we still have half-time and there are 19 more games to play in Serie A this season? Napoli are 12 points behind second-placed Milan and 13 behind Lazio, Inter Milan and Juventus. According to Jose Mourinho, they are already… champions, with the Roma coach of Luciano Spalletti’s team even publicly congratulating the two teams before the clash on Sunday (29.1., 9:45 p.m., COSMOTE SPORT 2 HD, LIVE by Sportish).

“I want to congratulate Napoli on the championship, they deserved it. A bit of the lack of consistency from Inter and Milan, I don’t see any of their opponents capable of winning 7-8 in a row.

The Scudetto is already theirs, we will still go there and try to win.” he stressed at the press conference he gave on Saturday (28/01), the special one also referring to the issue that Roma are “burning” in the last 24 hours and it is none other than Nicolo Zaniolo’s claim, before the end to be released during the winter transfer window.

“He’s been saying he wants to leave for a month, but in the end I’m unfortunately right when I say he’s still here. It’s easy for me to say that Nikolo is not available to the team.

I’m concentrating on the next game and, as a coach, looking at the players who want to fight with me for this club and these fans.

Niccolo is not part of the squad for the away game against Napoli”, Mourinho clarified while Roma only have Bournemouth’s proposal for his takeover in their hands after Milan’s interests retreated.