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The former Tottenham boss David Pleat says current Premier League managers have been 鈥榤ade into monsters鈥� by the amount of media scrutiny they are under.

In a week when Jose Mourinho at Chelsea and Arsenal鈥檚 Arsene Wenger have both hit back at questions in press conferences, Pleat says it highlights the current relationship between the media and managers.

鈥淚 think now more than ever because you have these high profile foreign managers, very experienced and very successful managers, Wenger and Mourinho, they probably feel it鈥檚 a bit of an imposition on their wonderful record as managers that people from the media profession are telling them indirectly how they should react,鈥� he said.

鈥淲e have made the managers monsters and that is the pressure they are under.

鈥淲e鈥檝e got too serious,鈥� Pleat added.

Wenger called the press "boring" in his press conference ahead of the game against Manchester United after getting involved in a spat with a journalist about team selection, while Mourinho has admitted to experiencing the "worst period and results" in his managerial career.

This clip is from 5 live Sport, Saturday 3 October 2015.

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