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'Great Ability' but 'A Bit Lazy': Remembering Jose Mourinho's Playing Days

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"Does anyone know what position Jose Mourinho played? So don't blame me if you don't know. Don't say, 'Klopp has no clue.' I think he was a goalkeeper."

When Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was asked who was the better player between him and Tottenham Hotspur boss Mourinho earlier in January, the German struggled to come up with a proper response. In fact, he looked so genuinely intrigued as to which role his Portuguese counterpart used to fulfil in his playing days that he asked journalists to do the one thing everybody usually does in such circumstances.