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Jose Mourinho is right to shut down comparisons to his 2012 Real Madrid side

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Jose Mourinho, in his press conference just before the match against AEK Athens, was asked about whether this team compares to the team of his first Real Madrid

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Jose Mourinho, in his press conference just before the match against AEK Athens, was asked about whether this team compares to the team of his first Real Madrid stint.

His answer was pretty much what you would expect. Mourinho held a pre-match press conference on Tuesday for the early kickoff for the game against AEK on the day after, and he was asked a question he knew he was eventually going to get asked.

Mourinho's answer was exactly what you would expect from someone like him to say. He said, "I don't like to make comparisons, not of players, teams, or periods.

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