Mourinho responds to Fermín and his "tiredness" over the refereeing issue: "We get tired of other things and they keep happening"

Why are you asking me about the rival? Jose Mourinho complained. The Real Madrid coach was asked a lot about football in the press conference prior to the classic, but the Portuguese refused to answer all the questions related to the ball. How to stop Lamine, if Barça's weak point was its defense, the game plan, the moment of his team and the culés, Flick... "I'm not going to answer that question about game plans, who is going to play, how we are going to structure ourselves... These are questions that I am not going to answer. You are smart, but I am not stupid," insisted the Portuguese, who did respond to Fermín's words about the referees.

The Spanish midfielder said yesterday that "the referees' speech is already tiring" and Mourinho responded directly: "We get tired of other things and they keep happening," he said, and once again insisted that the referee's name be leaked before the match: "I always start from the principle that the referee is good. What bothers me is when the rules are broken and the name is known, although at the moment they have not yet been broken. Nobody has yet told me 'this is the referee'."

The Portuguese will return to the Camp Nou after more than a decade, but he faces it as just another "game." "It's not a test of cotton. Madrid with Mourinho wins titles," he repeated, and asked for "credit to my players." "Players win games and coaches lose them," he said.

Mourinho, who claimed to have "the eleven decided", considers his Madrid "an unfinished product" and admits that it seems "unfair" to compare his team with others who have been together longer. "We are seen as a finished product, but we have worked for two months. It is an initial product where we are still in a phase in which the coach is getting to know and defining paths. The players are getting to know their coach's way of working and leading. Comparing it with teams that have been there for longer does not seem fair to me," he reflected.

The only football thing he responded, a little, was about Lamine, in his own way: "They are all very good, it's like in Madrid. Lamine is a great player and great players are respected. But it's one thing to respect and another to change plans, structures, or forget your own essence. We won't do that either with him or with another rival."