Following Roma’s loss to Sevilla in the Europa League final on Wednesday night, Jose Mourinho was furious with the officials’ choices.
Paulo Dybala’s goal for Mourinho’s Serie A team gave them the lead, but Gianluca Mancini’s own goal forced extra time and penalties, which Mancini and Roger Ibanez both missed to give Sevilla their sixth Europa League title.
After winning the Europa Conference League the previous season, it prevented Mourinho and Roma from winning a second consecutive European championship.
Roma’s coaching staff and replacements bench came under fire for their excessive game-playing throughout the championship. The Portuguese manager received a caution for starting a brawl on the sidelines.
Mourinho attacked referee Anthony Taylor after the game when he was waiting in the Puskas Arena parking lot.
The former Chelsea boss was heard shouting, “F***ing disgrace man, it’s a f***ing disgrace”, switching to Italian and then back to English before finishing with, “Congratulations, you f***ing disgrace”.
Back in front of the media, he also criticized former Tottenham player Erik Lamela, claiming the Argentine should have been dismissed for receiving a second yellow card.
Mourinho said: “Next year we won’t be playing the Champions League and that’s a good thing because we’re not made for it.
“I said we’d come out as winners or dead. We are dead, dead of everything, dead of fatigue. It is an unfair result with events against us…the referee seemed Spanish, yellows everywhere.
“And let’s hope that Taylor, only officiates games in the Champions League and does the same bull**** there that he did tonight, and not in the Europa League.
“[Lorenzo] Pellegrini falls in the box and given a yellow card; [Lucas] Ocampos did exactly the same thing and he doesn’t get one. It’s a scandal. VAR called the referee and shames Ocampos but there’s no card given. [Erik] Lamela – who, by the way, scored one of the penalties – deserved a second yellow but didn’t get it.”
Mourinho has been linked with the Paris Saint-Germain post and did little to quell talk surrounding his future.
“I can’t say I will be here next season,” he said.
“I will go on holiday on Monday, then we will speak. I told the owners I will tell them if I start talks with another club. As of now no other club called me. It is time for me to talk to the owners. It is time for the owners to talk to me.”