Pundit Simon Jordan believes Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper is a "balanced" individual in comparison to people "in a bubble" like Jose Mourinho.
Former Manchester United and Chelsea boss Mourinho lost his first European final as a manager on Wednesday night after his Roma team where beaten on penalties in the Europa League final against Sevilla.
It means that the Italian side will miss out on a place in the Champions League next season with speculation that the Portuguese coach could leave in the summer.
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And after the match, Mourinho was criticised in some quarters following comments in his post-match press conference, something which Jordan compared to the behaviour of Reds boss Cooper.
"His outbursts wouldn't particularly bother me," he told on talkSPORT, "but there is another part of it where he talks about the players and the club do not actually want to be in the Champions League or shouldn't actually be there because they're not ready for it and that would be the part where I go 'really!?'
"But you price this into your thinking. Your not employing balanced, rounded individuals as football managers. Your employing rounded football people but there's a difference between a rounded person in a society and a football person inside a bubble who thinks they can say what they want.
"When I say balanced, they are balanced within the realms of football but you lift them outside of football. Every now and again you see them and we can relate to them.
"I'll tell you who's balanced, who speaks the language that everyone can understand, Steve Cooper and people of that nature, because I could meet him in the street and he would be the same sort of fella. Not affected by the outcomes of this rarified world that football does which means everyone wipes your backside, gives you what you want, gives you excuses when you don't do something and ultimately gives you what you want all the time.
"And if you don't get what you want they throw their toy's out of the pram and when you get something your way it is all to do with you, when something goes bad it's all to do with something else, that's football."
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