Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has criticized media for publicizing his disparaging comments about his forwards, comments he regarded as private and light-hearted.

While French television station Canal Plus was waiting for an interview with Mourinho last week in Nyon, Switzerland, it filmed him talking with a Swiss businessman at a sponsor event. Broadcast on Monday, when Chelsea was heading to Istanbul to play Galatasaray in the Champions League's second round, the clip shows Mourinho saying, "The problem with Chelsea is we lack a scorer. I have one (Samuel Eto'o) but he's 32. Maybe 35, who knows?"

At the pre-match news conference on Tuesday, Mourinho told media, "You all should be a bit embarrassed, because it's a case of the ethics you have in your work. From my point of view, is it an unhappy comment? Absolutely. But from the ethical point of view, it's a real disgrace.


While Mourinho was seeking to protect his relationship with Eto'o, Fernando Torres and Demba Ba, he insisted their were no issues with Eto'o because of their history. Together, they won the Champions League, Serie A and Italian Cup with Inter Milan in 2010.

"It was with him that I had the best ever season of my career," Mourinho said. "He's one of the few player who is working with me in a second different club, and a manager never does that when he doesn't like the player, doesn't like the person.

"There is no story. It was a funny conversation between me and somebody that doesn't belong to the footballing world. We were laughing, as everybody was saying. It's a disgrace that somebody has recorded a private conversation."

Mourinho also discussed Monaco forward Radamel Falcao.

"I don't have Falcao, but Falcao doesn't have a team," Mourinho said in comments captured by Canal Plus. "Who wants to play in front of 3,000 supporters? If I was one day to go to Monaco, it would be at the end" of my career.