Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas-Boas has said that he does not lose sleep over the breakdown of his relationship with Chelsea's Jose Mourinho, his former mentor, as the two teams are set to face each other in a grudge match on Saturday at White Hart Lane.
According to the Guardian, Villas-Boas is no longer in contact with Mourinho, although they spoke when they saw each other at a Premier League managers' meeting early last month, and he traced the beginning of the friction to their time at Internazionale.
Villas-Boas had worked under Mourinho at Porto and Chelsea as the opposition scout but he wanted greater involvement in first-team coaching at Inter, only for Mourinho to deny him, the report said.
The Spurs manager attempted to strike out alone as a manager in the summer of 2009 but he missed the vacant job at Braga, the report added.
He severed his professional ties with Mourinho in October of that year when he accepted his first managerial post at Academica de Coimbra, the report further said.
Villas-Boas said that he does not care about Chelsea and said that he had a great personal and professional relationship with Mourinho before, but he did not have that now.
He said that he last talked to the Special One at the Premier League managers' meeting in August but not since then.