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Chelsea prepared on Tuesday for the first leg of their UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie against Galatasaray. Boss, Mourinho blasted the press over the recording of a private conversation about striker Samuel Eto'o.

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SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Mourinho, Chelsea manager:
Q: "In defending what you have said, have you spoken to Samuel Eto'o? What's your relationship like?"
"Defending? I am not defending what I am saying. I am attacking.... something that is I think fundamental in your professional area, and that person showed exactly what he is or what he doesn't know about the job. From my perspective the comment is not obviously a good one. It is not obviously one that I would do in a serious way. It is not something I would do in an official way in an interview. First of all, because I don't make fun. Secondly because if there are managers in the world that really defend their players, I am obviously one of them. And, third because.... Samuel Eto'o is Samuel Eto'o. Samuel Eto'o is four times a Champions League winner. People think three times, but he is four times. One in Real Madrid, two in Barcelona and one with Inter. It was with him that I had the best ever season of my career (at Inter Milan). He is one of the few players that is working with me in a second different club and the manager never does that when he doesn't like the player, he doesn't like the person. And he has no reason to be upset because also he told a few years ago that 'Mourinho is the only manager in the word I would never play for,' and after one year he was playing for me at Inter and a few years later he is playing here with me, so, there is no story. There is no story, I repeat. It was a funny conversation between me and somebody that doesn't belong to the football world. We were laughing as everybody was saying and I really think that is a disgrace that somebody is taping, is recording a private conversation when obviously we don't know."