Jose Mourinho has opened up a fresh Spygate row by hinting that he knows Frank Lampard's team for today's battle at Stamford Bridge. The Chelsea manager was furious when he was at Derby after Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa got one of his staff to spy on a behind-closed-doors training session.
Mourinho's sources are thought to be a mole at the club he managed to three Premier League successes in two spells – although the Portuguese was keeping his cards close to his chest.
In his main conference, he had been asked about the previous game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this season when Lampard had experimented with three centre-backs.
Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has a mole in the Chelsea camp (Image: GETTY)
When quizzed later about who had told him and why he was so confident of his information, Mourinho replied enigmatically: “It is the same way you have a lot of news but you don't tell the sources!”
Despite news breaking of the leak, Mourinho is confident that his former player will stick with his plans at this stage.
However, the idea that Mourinho may have been digging behind the scenes to get private information from within the Chelsea camp will do little to dampen feelings ahead of his return to Stamford Bridge.
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