Mourinho says Suarez should not have won Player of the Year

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, has said that Liverpool striker Luis Suarez, did not deserve to win the Premier League’s Player of the Season prize.
Suarez clinched both the Professional Footballers Association and the English Football Writers Association awards, but Mourinho says he would have picked Manchester City’ Edin Dzeko ahead of the controversial Uruguayan.
“My player of the year would always be from the champion. Always a representative of the champions, so if the champion is Man City, I think I would choose Dzeko,” Mourinho told reporters at Chelsea’s training base.

“Why? Because he was the third striker in the beginning of the season, he was even behind his manager’s first choices and when the team needed him, in crucial moments of the season, or because of [Sergio] Aguero injuries or because of [Alvaro] Negredo’s little moments of lack of form, he made the difference.
“In this moment, I think he has 16 goals. Sixteen goals for the third striker is something spectacular, and not just that, the quality of his game.
“So if I would choose, and also the kind of player he is, he’s not just a goalscorer, he assists, he plays, he behaves, he’s fair, he doesn’t dive, doesn’t try to put opponents on the stands with accumulation of cards. I would choose Dzeko.”

City require just a point against West Ham on Sunday to be confirmed league champions, but if they fail to, Mourinho says he would have still picked Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard ahead of Suarez.
“If Liverpool are champions, I would go Steven Gerrard. Very good season, in a position where he is important for a team, where he changes his profile as a player, where he is not scoring so many goals as before because now he doesn’t arrive in the box so much.

“He stays more in midfield, with a tremendous cold blood as a penalty-taker, which he had lots of them, but in every penalty he was there for the team, too, and some of them were crucial. I would go for Steven Gerrard.
“The profile of player that wins the player of the year is not the profile of the player that used to win in English football ten, eight, six years ago. It’s not the same profile of player,” Mourinho said.
“Everyone has his choice. You [the media], the players, everybody is free to choose. Luis Suarez is a very good player so they are not voting for a player who has no qualities, he is a very good player.