"I thought Mourinho hated me, he said, 'I'm f***ed with you"

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Angel Gomes' progress at Manchester United was promising, but the Lille winger stalled with Mourinho on the bench. In fact, he has now explained that the relationship with the Portuguese was more than difficult.

"I've never told this story before but, once, Mourinho took me to a cup game with the first team after I had played with the U21s. We were at the table at dinner and he came to talk to everyone. Then he looked at me and said: 'I'm f***ed with you'," he told 'Sportbible'.

Angel Gomes said that "at that moment everyone laughed". "I thought it was a joke. I asked him why and he told me because of my performance the day before. He started saying that I had done this and that in front of the whole team," continued the young player, who was just 16 at the time.

"I must have thought I played terribly. I didn't expect it. I was surprised. He finished shouting and went on to do something else," he said, before adding: "Some of the players told me not to worry, to ignore him, that he was doing it to get a reaction from me. That's how he was.

"I was young and my head thought he hated me. I went to my room and called my father. I was almost in tears. Then I realised he is very passionate," concluded Angel Gomes, who endured a bad spell at Old Trafford.