Pepe: “Cristiano is treated differently by the Press and even some fans. Mourinho’s team is attacked because he is Portuguese. Whatever we do on the field is interpreted differently, and when things relate to Barcelona it reaches an even higher dimension, because Barca have a good structure to get everything going.
“Persecuted? Yes we are. We are strangers, and it shows up in the preferences of the media. If they had to choose between a Portuguese and a Spaniard they wouldn’t need to think twice.”