José Mourinho has had enough. Hearing form media about question with regards to singale players troubled hamstring. Mourinho retorted "don't speak about Diego Costa. I don't want to speak about injured players. If injured, they're injured. If he's not here, he's not here."
His words were spot on to all who were asking about Costa. Cost missed the game at Crystal Palace and will also be missing the match in Maribor. But many can't deny the importance of Costa with the Chelsea. Mourinho described Costa injury as "almost" a hamstring that became an actual hamstring injury and that the team's main concern is that Costa would be able to play against Manchester United.
Mourinho stated "It is the same problem he's having. But now an injury, not an almost injury. It's simple. He's not training because he's not in condition to do so. I have no idea how long. Tomorrow he cannot play. The weekend is not important but he cannot play tomorrow."
It is understandable why Chelsea is pampering Costa with his injury. He was able to deliver nine goals in his first nine matches since his £32m contract move from Atlético Madrid. But Mourinho was frustrated to see him start twice for Spain in their recent European Championship qualifiers, which lead him to criticize the national associations for not communicating with clubs more.
He said "There are no rules, no laws to protect us, just the mentality of the national coaches and teams. It's up to them to take good care of the players or to think in a selfish way. It's up to them, not to us."
He adds "I'm not the kind of guy to tell players not to go or to pretend they have problems. I stimulate them to go and like them to go. Our club likes players to go and succeed with national teams and play in big competitions, Euros, World Cups."
He continued "But sometimes you have national coaches and medical departments in federations that want to establish relations and are interested in players, what they are doing, their moment in terms of physical condition and habits around matches. Some others simply don't care."
"But we can't resolve that. I can't ring up and ask to speak to the manager or doctor. That's out of our hands. I had in my career a few of them in permanent contact with me, permanent contact: 'Is he is condition? Strong enough to play two games? What to do between matches? What does before a game physically?' I had some with very open communication but others, year after year, not one single SMS or phone call."
