{"id":292005,"date":"2023-09-22T08:35:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T08:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=292005"},"modified":"2023-09-22T08:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T08:35:46","slug":"jose-mourinho-calls-out-always-injured-new-signing-renato-sanches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/jose-mourinho-calls-out-always-injured-new-signing-renato-sanches\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho calls out 'always injured' new signing Renato Sanches"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jose Mourinho has called out\u00a0Renato Sanches asking ‘why the centre-midfielder is always injured’ just ten weeks after signing the midfielder on loan from Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n
His comments came after Roma got their Europa League campaign off to a winning start against FC Sheriff Tiraspol on Thursday night, with last year’s finalists securing a 2-1 victory thanks to a second-half goal from Romelu Lukaku.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sanches started the match but only managed to play 28 minutes before being replaced by Leandro Parades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old has endured a difficult start to life in the Italian capital after Mourinho’s side saw off competition from Arsenal to sign the Portuguese midfielder on loan from PSG back in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since then he has managed a meagre 98 minutes for the club coming on to play 25 minutes of their 2-2 draw against Salernitana during the opening day of the Serie A season, but withdrew from their subsequent training sessions after Calcio Mercato reported he had been complaining of muscle pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Jose Mourinho has called out new signing Renato Sanches (pictured) questioning ‘why the centre midfielder is always injured’<\/p>\n
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Roma were in action in their opening Europa League match of the season last night defeating Sheriff Tiraspol 2-1, with Mourinho (pictured middle) watching the game from the press box as he serves a four-match ban\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Sanches (left) was substituted after 28 minutes of the match, having missed several other games with soft tissue injuries already this season<\/p>\n
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He was forced to miss their following two league defeats to AC Milan and Verona before returning to play 45 minutes of their game against Empoli but limped off after half-time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And it appears his new manager, Mourinho, is growing impatient of his recent injury woes, with the Portuguese manager claiming that the situation is ‘difficult to understand’.<\/p>\n
‘They [Renato Sanches and Houssem Aouar] have to play, they need rhythm and intensity,’ Mourinho said on the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘That’s what Renato is, he’s always at risk, it’s difficult to understand: Bayern didn’t understand him, PSG didn’t understand him and we have difficulties.<\/p>\n
‘He played 45 minutes on Sunday, then had three days of rest and left after 27 minutes,’ the Portuguese coach added.<\/p>\n
‘He is always in doubt, it is difficult to understand why he is always injured. Aouar played the necessary time to regain the rhythm of the game.’<\/p>\n
The manager was not in the dug out for Thursday’s clash, starting a four-game ban which he was given after\u00a0insulting referee Anthony Taylor after the Europa League final last season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aouar, meanwhile, limped off with an injury during Roma’s 2-1 defeat by AC Milan last week and has equally had a slow start to life at his new club after joining from Lyon in July.<\/p>\n
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Mourinho (pictured) claimed that it was ‘difficult to understand why Sanches was always at risk’<\/p>\n
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Sanches (middle) joined Roma earlier this season on loan from Paris Saint-Germain, but has only played 98 minutes of football<\/p>\n
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Mourinho also questioned Houssem Aouar’s (middle) recent injury record, but said Algerian managed to get some valuable game time under his belt in last night’s fixture<\/p>\n
He was absent for their resulting game against Empoli with a flexor issue in his quad, but returned to start for Mourinho’s side in Thursday night’s Europa League opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sanches, meanwhile, endured an injury plagued season during the 2022-23 campaign, being sidelined on several different occasions for several soft tissue injuries that included a hamstring problem and adductor issues.<\/p>\n
His comments came after Mourinho sensationally said that Roma did not lose last year’s Europa League final to Sevilla.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘I will also continue to say until the bitter end that we did not lose that final in Budapest. Every time people talk to me about it, I will tell them that we did not lose.’ he said prior to the game against FC Sheriff.<\/p>\n
Roma currently sit 12th in the league having lost two, won one game and drawn another in an underwhelming start to the new season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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