Mourinho repeats that Sporting's Danish ace Hjulmand is given special treatment by referees

[p]Mourinho already, in December, criticized referees in the Portuguese league for their treatment of [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/hjulmand-morten/pjC6hC8U/"]Hjulmand[/a], and before the weekend, Mourinho repeated that the Danish international is handed a 'carte blanche' by the referees.[/p][p]'The Special One' says in his usual sarcastic manner that [b]"Hjulmand has only learned Portuguese to be able to communicate with the referees."[/b][/p][p]"It's something we have to think about in relation to the next foreign players who may come to [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/benfica/zBkyuyRI/"]Benfica[/a].  Normally, when a player comes to a foreign country and wants to learn the language, we praise it in Portugal - and that was also something I was interested in when I worked abroad."[/p][embed guid="0953f8c9-c585-45ef-9f31-72b3e61e38c5" url="https://x.com/TalkingSporting/status/1997375136022859827" social-type="twitter" /][p][b]"But usually the goal is to make it easier to adapt socially, do your job better, and improve relationships with your teammates. Learning a language to be able to communicate better with the referees - that's fantastic."[/b][/p][p]"If a foreign player comes to Benfica, that will be our motivation to make him learn the language quickly. It's a fantastic situation", Mourinho says sarcastically, according to Portuguese media A Bola.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/fc-porto/S2NmScGp/"]FC Porto[/a] leads the Portuguese Primeira Liga, holding a solid advantage over rivals [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/sporting-cp/tljXuHBC/"]Sporting CP[/a] and Benfica. Porto are four points ahead of Porto and seven points in front of Benfica. [/p]