Caporegime
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Jose Morinho has also said he is the best CAM he has ever worked with.
I think we should trust in what Jose and Low say about Ozil.
They are proffesional managers of the football game, we are not
Like Scolari says Fred is great? Being a professional manager doesn't preclude you from making mistakes. If anything it makes your public opinion less believable.
Watch ANY tribute tv piece to any player, and each time you get the same people footballers, managers, pundits saying the same thing about different players, he's the best in the world, he makes the team tick, or other such things.
When you work in an area you can't afford to alienate anyone, ever so people are almost universally nice and unbelievable apologetic. How many English pundits, be them ex footballers, ex managers or current ones for that matter, slated say Rooney... they didn't, they found excuses.
It's like at work, if someone asked you in front of the rest of the team if person X is great... you say yes because people can hear you and it's the polite thing to be done.
You don't crap where you eat, in any profession you don't bad mouth a player at any team for no reason and you usually talk up how great they are. Mourinho might work with Ozil again even if he would never choose to buy him ever. Mata, who most people rate in a similar way to Ozil, was gotten rid of by Mourinho, after Mourinho spent all summer saying how important he was and how he would be part of the first team. So how does that work, manager talking UP how good the player is but shifts him out of the door when he could?
What about the fact that Mourinho didn't trust Ozil to play more than 60 minutes, dropped him for some key games?
Managers aren't infallible just because they are "professionals" in the game of football. For the reasons above they are very rarely honest, really honest, in a public manor about the majority of players, anyone who thinks they are is blind. Imagine if Luis Enrique had publicly ranted about Suarez's behaviour after his last bite, calling him an animal, saying he should never play the game. With Barcelona planning to buy Suarez, would they have considered him as manager when the player might not like him and the manager might hate the player... likely not. Being honest could have cost him a huge job.
It's why managers.... who aren't seeking to be pundits, are often the most truthful... they have nothing to lose/gain by lying.
Let's also for the record, not forget that Ozil apparently loves Mourinho and vice versa, Ozil was pimped around Europe to anyone around. Despite being the very best CAM Mourinho has ever worked with.... no interest in buying Ozil at all...... hmmmm.
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