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Manchester United defender Eric Bailly appears to have broken Jose Mourinho’s new social media ban.
Bailly uploaded a video to his Instagram account on Wednesday where he and Juan Mata were joking around with a ball at United’s Carrington training ground.
He has since deleted the post, which was published a little over 24 hours before the club’s crucial Europa League semi-final first-leg away to Celta Vigo – thus breaking Mourinho’s strict new rules.
Show all 14 1 /14The players Mourinho has fallen out with The players Mourinho has fallen out with The players Jose Mourinho has fallen out with Mourinho's treatment of the young full-back Luke Shaw has made headlines, with the manager angrily accusing the 21-year-old of not applying himself in training, before hinting he could farm the player out on loan. But Shaw is far from the first player Mourinho has spectacularly fallen out with...
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Vitor Baia The former Portugal goalkeeper started and ended a glittering career at Porto, having also spent two years at Barcelona. But Baia did not have it all his own way during his second spell, losing his first-team place and suspended for disciplinary reasons in Mourinho's maiden season as boss following a reported training ground row with his compatriot. Baia remained at the club until he retired in 2007, three years after Mourinho left for his first stint at Chelsea.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Ricardo Quaresma Quaresma was meant to be Inter's star player under Mourinho, but the manager grew impatient with his ill-discipline and resorted to critiquing him in the press, which didn't go down well with the player. “My biggest regret was joining Inter," Quaresma later said. "I felt on the margins of the squad and woke up crying when I had to attend training sessions."
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with David Suazo Mourinho failed to give David Suazo much of a chance when he took over at Inter in 2008 and criticised him in the press before farming him out on loan to Benfica. “Mourinho is arrogant and selfish, and likes to assert his dominance,” Suazo later told the Honduran publication, Diez.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Romelu Lukaku "The thinking behind the move was the fact that Romelu was always very clear with us, in his mentality, in his approach, he was not highly motivated to come to a competitive situation at Chelsea," Mourinho said after allowing Lukaku to leave Chelsea for Everton in 2014, for £28m. The striker has recently been linked with a summer move to Mourinho's United, for £65m.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Kevin de Bruyne The Belgian infamously revealed that he gave up on his Chelsea career after Mourinho had embarrassed him in front of his team-mates. “He called in all the attacking midfielders,” said De Bruyne of his final weeks in west London. “He showed us the stats of his six players - assists, goals, passing percentage, key passes, dribbles. He wanted to prove I didn't perform on the level of the others. I simply answered him: ‘Sorry, that's not logical. I've played less games than the others. How can you compare me to the others?’ That was just not fair in my eyes.”
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Juan Mata Mata became a fans' favourite at Stamford Bridge after arriving at Chelsea from Valencia in 2011. However, the Spaniard struggled to adapt to Mourinho's style of play during his second spell in charge of the Blues and was sold to Manchester United in 2014. Mata and Mourinho were later reunited at Old Trafford and the former has now become an important player for his manager in Manchester.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Iker Casillas The Madrid legend was one of the first players Mourinho fell out with after joining the club in 2010. Mourinho was disgusted that Casillas regularly spoke to Barcelona players and was said to be suspicious of his girlfriend, who worked as a journalist. “Mourinho saw him as a grass, a mole, a traitor and an egoist,” Diego Torres wrote in his biography, 'The Special One'.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Sergio Ramos Current Real captain Ramos was a key player during Mourinho's three year stay in Madrid, although the pair were far from friends. Ramos went public with his dismay at Mourinho's treatment of Mesut Özil and insisted in a 2014 interview that he had forgotten who Mourinho was.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Pepe The pair frequently bickered during Mourinho's time at Real, although like Ramos, Pepe remained a key part of Madrid's starting XI. Pepe accused Mourinho's treatment of his friend Casillas as being "not adequate". Mourinho replied: "It is easy to analyse the Pepe thing. His problem has a name, and it is Raphael Varane," suggesting that Pepe wasan inferior player to the emerging 20 year old.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Pedro Leon Similar to Luke Shaw, Pedro Leon was a young player inherited by Mourinho whom he almost immediately dismissed. The Guardian's Sid Lowe reported that "Mourinho told Leon that even if the team plane crashed without him on it and he was the only man available, he still would not play the following week." Leon accused Mourinho of workplace bullying before being sold to Getafe.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with David Luiz Mourinho sold Luiz upon his return to Chelsea and insisted that the defender "would not be missed". The pair have regularly traded jibes since and Luiz perhaps got the last laugh when Chelsea resigned him in 2016, under Antonio Conte.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Bastian Schweinsteiger Frustrated with Schweinsteiger's habit of flying back to Germany when injured, Mourinho banished the veteran midfielder to training with the reserves. However, in a possible sign that he had mellowed, Mourinho later admitted to feeling regret over his handling of the player. "After knowing him as a person and a professional and the way he was respecting my decisions as a manager, yes I regret [it] and there is no problem for me to admit it, because I have told him," he said after selling the midfielder to the Chicago Fire.
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The players Mourinho has fallen out with Luke Shaw Mourinho's rant on Shaw's lack of effort in recent months was one of his most explosive yet. “It is difficult for him to be on the bench,” Mourinho said. “I cannot compare him with Ashley Young, with Matteo Darmian, with Daley Blind. I cannot compare the way he trains, the way he commits, the focus, the ambition. I cannot compare. He is a long way behind.”
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Mata looked fully mobile despite not playing since March, while Bailly himself limped off against Swansea on Sunday.
The incident comes after The Independent revealed Mourinho’s crackdown on players’ social media use in the lead up to games. The new rules prohibit first-team players from publishing and pictures or videos from training or anything during the 48 hours leading up to a game.
Ander Herrera, Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard have all been rebuked recently and players have been made aware how their actions can paint the club in a bad light.
Lingard’s infamous Snapchat of United on their team bus while being held up in a ferocious atmosphere on the way to West Ham on the final game of last season caused a large amount of criticism, while Luke Shaw has also been guilty of crossing the line.
Assistant manager Rui Faria was furious at Shaw for publishing a video of himself training at home in November after Mourinho ruled him out of a trip to Swansea through injury – something which was seen as a dig at the former Chelsea boss.
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