Mourinho: "I'm always honest with Casillas"

Casillas is training well and needs to continue and wait for an opportunity" Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said about Madrid’s captain, who hasn’t been called up for the match against Galatasaray. "I've always been honest with him".

When asked about the shortage of goals he said "it’s not important who scores or who doesn’t, it’s meaningless. We have two number nines and everyone knows how talented they are and we have high expectations of them. Higuían played a great match in Manchester, even though he didn’t score."

He refuted the idea that the comments made by former players of his, currently at Galatasaray, were strategic compliments: "I don’t relate to a sycophantic culture and neither do these players," he stated. "They are both players who have given me a lot in the past. They’re my friends now and always will be," he added.