'Ranieri old, Wenger a failure' - Mourinho mockery coming back to haunt him

The Chelsea boss has made fun of the Leicester and Arsenal managers, plus Manuel Pellegrini, but they
are challenging for the title while he languishes near
the foot of the table Throughout his coaching career,
Jose Mourinho has often had the last laugh.
The most
successful coach in the past decade along with
Bayern Munich and former Barcelona boss Pep
Guardiola, the Portuguese has relished putting down
some of his counterparts. This season, however, it no
longer seems so clever.
On Monday, Chelsea travel to Leicester for a meeting
with the Premier League's surprise package in
2015-16 - and his old foe Claudio Ranieri.
The Portuguese replaced Ranieri at Chelsea for his
first spell in 2004. "It was the end of the cycle," he
said back then. But he later attacked the Italian when
the two men were working in Serie A, Mourinho at
Inter and Ranieri at Juventus.
"Ranieri has the mentality of someone who doesn't
need to win," he said in 2008. "He is almost 70 years
old, he has won a Supercup and another small trophy
and he is too old to change his mentality. He's old
and he hasn't won anything."
The Italian was actually 56 at the time, while he has
won a little more than Mourinho gave him credit for:
a Copa del Rey and a Uefa Super Cup with Valencia,
plus a Coppa Italia and a Supercoppa Italiana at
Fiorentina. Nevertheless, Mou's Inter side beat
Ranieri's Juventus to the title and he kept his

reputation as a master of mind games.