Chris Maduewesi
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Mourinho fired the first shot when he defended his reason for not signing left-back Luke Shaw,saying that the player was expensive and that his wages would cause disharmony in Chelsea's dressing room.
Manchester United reportedly paid Southampton a fee of £27million to sign Shaw which could still rise,making him the most expensive full-back .
Chelsea were believed to have been in pole position to sign him but had to pull out from the deal,and Mourinho insisted that they wouldn't have paid such a hefty fee for a teenager.
The Blues however settled for Felipe Luis whom they paid 20million Euros for to sign him from Atletico Madrid
"If we pay to a 19-year-old boy what we were being asked for, to sign Luke Shaw, we are dead," Mourinho said. "We would have killed our stability with financial fair play and killed the stability in our dressing room.
"Because when you pay that much to a 19-year-old kid -- a good player, fantastic player -- but when you pay that amount of money, the next day, we would have had players knocking on our door.
"They would have been saying, 'How is it possible I play 200 games for this club, won this and that, yet a 19-year-old comes here and gets more money than I get?'"
"It would've killed immediately our balance and we couldn't allow that. I don't criticise another club for paying it. They can pay what they want. I don't have any comment about it.
"But for my club we can say it would be very negative for us, especially when we can say Felipe is much less expensive. Sometimes you have to make decisions."
However,Manchester United coach Van Gaal refused to be drawn into an exchange of words with Mourinho, rather opting to have a private conversation with him on the issue.
"I don't have to answer, I don't think I have to discuss things with the media. It's better to discuss it with Jose," he told reporters