TAYLOR critcizes Mourinho

PFA chief Gordon Taylor is less than impressed with the way Mourinho has been criticizing his players in public after he appeared to question Luke Shaw and Chris Smalling's commitment to the club.

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Both players reportedly asked to be left out of the squad that faced Swansea on Sunday leaving Mourinho with a light squad as he needed to improvise a defense for the match citing lack of fitness. Taylor has advised the United gaffer of the consequences of his actions if he continues that way.

"I was disappointed by that because, knowing the individuals, they are both highly thought of," said Taylor at the VSI Sporting Directors governance dinner.

"They've got personal problems which I don't need to relay, but sometimes a manager needs to be a psychologist as well, and also to be a counselor because you can't treat everybody in the team [the same], every manager must know that. Every player in a team is different."

"When you see what happened with Welsh football and Gary Speed, that brings it home to you that somebody can look on top of the world, with no problems, but [in reality] it's quite different and that's why we have a 24-hour counseling service."

"We get some 200 calls a year to those lines because a player could be out of the team, he could be injured. It's a short-term career and we're all human beings."

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