JOSE MOURINHO took a excavation astatine his erstwhile subordinate Kurt Zouma aft being asked astir his penchant of dogs oregon cats.
The ex-Chelsea brag was being interviewed by different aged prima John Obi Mikel for his Obi One podcast.
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PADuring the interview, the Fenerbahce manager was asked whether helium prefers cats oregon dogs.
Mourinho replied by saying: “Dogs.”
But ne'er 1 to shy distant from controversy, the sharp-tongued 62-year-old past raised his hands successful the aerial and added: “But I don’t person a occupation with cats.
“I’m not Kurt Zouma.”
The gag saw Mourinho and Obi Mikel burst into laughter.
It came arsenic a notation to Zouma’s cat-kicking ungraded successful February 2022.
In a leaked Snapchat video obtained exclusively by The Sun, the past West Ham defender was seen kicking and slapping his favored feline successful his kitchen successful a video filmed by member Yoan.
His nine condemned the enactment and fined him £250,000, which they said was the maximum they were capable to manus out.
The Frenchman pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Zouma avoided a jailhouse sentence for the crime but was fined £8,887 and handed a 12-month assemblage bid with 180 hours of unpaid work.
He was besides banned from keeping cats for 5 years.
Speaking astir the sickening incident, Zouma said: “It’s been a hard spell for maine and my family.
“Obviously, I person done thing precise atrocious and I apologise again for what I’ve done. I cognize it was precise pugnacious for radical to ticker and to spot that and evidently I consciousness very, precise sorry.
“I person large remorse astir it and present I’m trying to determination connected with my household and looking ahead. I learned from it, that’s the astir important thing, I would say.
“Obviously, I had enactment from many, galore radical astir maine who helped maine enactment focused connected football and I effort to enactment happy.”
Zouma, present 30, near the Hammers successful August 2024 to articulation Saudi Pro League outfit Al-Orobah.
He played nether Mourinho during the Portuguese manager’s 2nd spell astatine Chelsea.
Mourinho is simply a known canine lover, and admitted successful 2019 helium had had a “very sad” Christmas due to the fact that his beloved Yorkshire Terrier, Leya, had died connected Christmas Day.
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