“The problem with Chelsea is that I lack a scorer. I have an Eto’o, but he is 32 years old … maybe 35, I do not know.” This sentence dropped by Jose Mourinho and broadcasted by Canal + Sunday, continues to be debated. If the technician joked about the age of the striker, very few have tasted the joke.

Starting with the player in question. And it is Claude Leroy who reveals it. The former coach of Cameroon who first included Samuel Eto’o in the Indomitable Lions while he was only 17 years old, announced on the set of “Talents d’Afrique” Monday that the former Barcelona got “very” angry with his manager. “I got him on the phone before coming here and he is very angry. Moreover Mourinho went to see him before he looks at the pictures telling him not to believe everything that was being said. And that he said nothing about him. But I can tell you that Samuel did not like it at all” said Leroy.

Mourinho who has been taking in all the past controversy after his comments about Pellegrini, Wenger and Barca will have to re-engage his best striker before facing Galatasaray in the Champions League on Wednesday.