Carlos Tevez could not have done it any better himself. It was midway through the first half and Jose Mourinho lost his temper on the Real Madrid bench, pumping out his elbows and pulling the face of a man who is not being allowed to buy a new striker.
The outrage had been provoked by a Karim Benzema miss and the furious elbow movements were aimed at letting the France striker know what he should have done.
He had just missed a clear opening inside the Zaragoza penalty area allowing himself to be sandwiched by two defenders. A more robust forward – Tevez for example – would have done as Mourinho had done in the dug-out and elbowed his way clear to score.
Despite a hat-trick in the Champions League dead rubber against Auxerre last week Benzema is not convincing Mourinho, who wanted a striker at the start of the season and wants one even more now that his first choice forward Gonzalo Higuain is injured.
Tevez lacks the height to be the perfect Mourinho No 9 but he comes a lot closer than Benzema and his Champions League availability would sweeten the deal even more.
Unfortunately for Jose, one of the reasons the club signed him was so to avoid spending £30m on expensive already established players. Especially ones in the habit of handing in transfer requests.
Robinho was the last player who did that to them – and they sold him to Manchester City.
The outrage had been provoked by a Karim Benzema miss and the furious elbow movements were aimed at letting the France striker know what he should have done.
He had just missed a clear opening inside the Zaragoza penalty area allowing himself to be sandwiched by two defenders. A more robust forward – Tevez for example – would have done as Mourinho had done in the dug-out and elbowed his way clear to score.
Tevez lacks the height to be the perfect Mourinho No 9 but he comes a lot closer than Benzema and his Champions League availability would sweeten the deal even more.
Unfortunately for Jose, one of the reasons the club signed him was so to avoid spending £30m on expensive already established players. Especially ones in the habit of handing in transfer requests.
Robinho was the last player who did that to them – and they sold him to Manchester City.
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