Arsene Wenger hits back after Jose Mourinho’s claims he will break his face

Arsene Wenger has insisted he will continue to speak his mind despite Jose Mourinho’s alleged threat to “break his face”. 

Wenger was responding to a claim in a book that the current Manchester United boss, during his time at Chelsea, threatened him with violence for commenting on Juan Mata’s switch from Stamford Bridge to Old Trafford. 

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Mourinho is alleged to have said: “When Mr Wenger criticises CFC and Man United over the deal with Mata...I will find him one day outside a football pitch and I will break his face.” 

But Wenger, whose side play Chelsea on Saturday, said: 

“I have no personal problem with anybody. I respect everybody in our game and I don’t feel I comment a lot on other teams. 

“Sometimes I just say what i think, but that is part of the way I am. 

“What is amazing is that has nothing to do with our game tomorrow. I personally am just focused on doing my job well and respecting everybody else. 

“Look, I haven’t read the book and I certainly won’t read it. I cannot comment on that. I talk about football and that’s all I do. 

"I’m not in a destructive mode, ever. I’m more constructive and I cannot comment on that because I’m focused on tomorrow’s game and how we want to play football.”