Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho rules out bids for Didier Drogba and Emmanuel Adebayor

24 August 2010 12:03
Mourinho believes this season's Premier League title race is between City, Manchester United and defending champions Chelsea but admits luring a striker of Adebayor's calibre to the Bernabeu. [LNB]Asked about making a bid for Adebayor, he said: "I think no chance. The historical dimension of Real Madrid and Manchester City you can't compare. But the economical dimension you can compare. [LNB]"And maybe they will win (the Premier League). So I think at the minute Man City is the club to keep their best players and to buy the players that nobody expects them to buy. [LNB]"I don't think, just one year after buying Emmanuel from Arsenal, he's the player to leave." [LNB]As for Drogba rejoining his former boss, Mourinho said: "Again, no chance." [LNB]"I believe Chelsea, Man United and Man City, that's it," he said, making it clear Liverpool were out of title contention. [LNB]Mourinho has also accepted thatManchester City are "dominant in the market" after outbidding the Spanish giants to sign Serbia full-back Aleksander Kolarov. [LNB]Kolarov joined City last month for £16 million as part of the breathtaking spending spree which has seen Sheikh Mansour, the Premier League club's wealthy owner, spend more than £100m on the north-west English side. [LNB]Former Chelsea boss Mourinho, who joined Madrid after leading Inter Milan to a domestic and European treble last season, said even a club the size of Real could not compete with City's cheque book. [LNB]"I understand that if someone wants to compete with them for a player it is very difficult, they are dominant in the market," Mourinho said. [LNB]"The player they say they want is the player they get," the Portuguese added. I was interested in Kolarov when I came here but I couldn't compete with them as they went to values that I couldn't. [LNB]"If they have the money they can do it, if they have the ambition to win the Premier League they can do it." [LNB]

Source: Telegraph