"You think the club [Manchester United] can put here now £600 million and let's buy six players of £100 million? The club cannot do that," said Jose Mourinho during his rant against Manchester City overspending on transfers.
"I cannot expect the club to do that, so it’s not critical and you can see how the market is, especially with the top teams.
"Can we buy six or seven players at the same time? Can we invest £600-700 million? No. So, it's difficult.
"I think the last years, the market is going in such a direction or you belong to one of these clubs where there is no limit and you just buy what you want and there is no limit, there is no financial fair play, there is nothing, you do what you want - or it's hard."
At the same press conference, Mourinho added as then-manager: "Without taking any credit away from Manchester City and Pep [Guardiola], and his staff, and the players, they obviously have lots of credit in what they are doing.
"Pep arrives, he has the goalkeeper of England [Joe Hart], he doesn't like him so he buys the goalkeeper of Barcelona [Claudio Bravo]. He doesn't like him so he buys another one [Ederson]."
The former Red Devils boss' words could not ring truer at a time when City are being investigated for about 100 breaches of FFP rules.
It's unclear what punishment City will face but two possible options are points deduction in the current season as well as forfeiting the 2017/18 title to United.
