Jose Mourinho did not mention Fernando Torres by name, but had what he said been in flashing neon lights the Chelsea manager's message could not have been clearer.
After the 3-1 Champions League defeat by Paris St-Germain, Mourinho bemoaned the lack of "a real striker." The Special One has a special way of putting the boot in, no matter if he is referring to one of own players.
Mourinho is a football writer's dream because he guarantees headlines. What he does not do is subtlety or sympathy. This is a man who, when Ramires committed not so much a red as a crimson-card tackle on Aston Villa's Karim El Ahmadi, which thankfully, but surprisingly, did not break the Morocco international's leg, ran onto the pitch to remonstrate with the referee.