Mourinho goes legal against Gala as Recriminations continue between Turkish football’s two biggest football clubs.
Mourinho goes legal against Galatasaray after accusation of racism.
As the irate accusations from Monday’s 0-0 Turkish Super Lig match between the two rival clubs continue, Fenerbahce said on Friday that Mourinho has started the process through the club’s solicitors.
The manager of Fenerbahce is requesting 1,907,000 Turkish lira, which is around £41,500 and is a symbolic sum that alludes to 1907 as the year Fenerbahce was established.
Galatasaray claimed that Mourinho’s post-match remarks, in which he said that the Slovenian referee Slavko Vincic officiated the game better than Turkish authorities could have and that the team’s bench was “jumping like monkeys,” amounted to racist remarks. For his remarks, Mourinho was given a four-match suspension and a £35,000 fine; however, the club claims he has appealed.
Following Galatasaray’s complaint, Didier Drogba, a former Chelsea and Galatasaray striker, was one of the players that defended Mourinho by referring to the Portuguese as his “dad.” Mourinho’s remarks were “taken completely out of context and deliberately distorted,” according to Fenerbahce’s own statement released on Tuesday, adding they could “in no way be associated with racism.”
Last year, Mourinho left Roma for Turkey. Earlier in the season, he was suspended and fined for ranting about the league and local officials.