Former Roma star Antonio Cassano has launched a furious attack on coach Jose Mourinho.

Cassano was reflecting on the Coppa Italia defeat to Cremonese last week.

He said, "Mourinho has never been a great coach, he just knew how to play the media and was a great communicator. He is good at dealing with strong players, not ones who aren't very good. It's too easy to just be friendly with great players.

“It is just a disaster upon a disaster at Roma, he got them to spend money on Nemanja Matic and Rui Patricio, they were his decisions. Too many times, he acts all sneaky.

“The other day, that performance made me want to vomit. He doesn't know how to set out a team. Even with your second-string squad, you need to beat Cremonese."

Cassano also spoke of Mourinho's management of Rick Karsdorp and Nicolò Zaniolo.

“It was Mourinho's disaster with Karsdorp, putting him in the stocks, disintegrating and insulting him in front of everyone. Now Karsdorp is coming back, who knows why? So that was one mess.

“As for Zaniolo, he gets to talk about that and not why his Roma team plays like c**p. It's been a year-and-a-half that this Roma side hasn't played proper football."