Mourinho to Man City?

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A few rumours on Twitter that he'll take over next season.

Pedro Pinto has just tweeted:

According to ABC Punto Radio in Spain, Mourinho has reached an agreement with Man City to take over next season. Interesting...

Reports say Mourinho would start working at Man City on the 30th of June. I have seen it coming 4 a while but not sure it's a done deal

Might be utter ******** and it's a strange time for it to come out.

I'll believe it when I see it.

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Mourinho has just denied it in today's Real Madrid press conference.
 
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I'm taking all Mouringo talk with a pinch of salt but I do expect him to walk if Real win the title as he has proven his point and will walk away but Real sack him as they sack every manager they have :p
 
Mancini is a good manager and I think he will get another season even if he doesn't win the title.
 
I think at this point City not winning the title is the more realistic possibility, and maybe most importantly is that City will feel that even if they win it they were in a stupidly strong position and utterly threw it away by Mancini being completely unable to get performances out of their stars. If they don't win it, it will be a bit of a joke considering how much has been spent and his performance in the champs league was hardly inspiring neither has it been so for Inter.

You also need to factor in that, fans generally feel Mourinho is a bit of a disgrace, Capello won the title at Real and got fired for playing insipid football, Mourinho managed to learn and moved away from his awful defensive stands against Barca, but he's still losing those games, and he's doing things like eye gouging opposition staff, generally acting a **** and encouraging behaviour most people are regarding as awful, Pepe, Ramos, Marcelo, Alonso, etc, etc.

Basically even if he wins the league and champs league, the fans aren't particularly happy with the way he acts or the way his teams act, and the owners are certainly not happy with him. If he loses the league and champs league..... I don't think he has a chance in hell. People talk about how much City have spent but Real have spent insanely for 3 years from a massively stronger starting position, paying higher wages and expecting much much more.

I would be very unsurprised to see Mourinho go to City, not least because he hasn't stayed anywhere very long, his MO is, turn up, spend like crazy, teach the team to cheat horrendously and behave like thugs, win something, run away before it all falls apart. Even if he does win league with Real he could easily leave before he can "lose it" the next year.
 
I would be very unsurprised to see Mourinho go to City, not least because he hasn't stayed anywhere very long, his MO is, turn up, spend like crazy, teach the team to cheat horrendously and behave like thugs, win something, run away before it all falls apart..

Ah yes, of course.

He tricked us all in to believing he was a good coach and motivator. :(
 
Not plausible at all. Man City cannot agree any deal now - what if mancini won the league. They'd sack him??? Nope.
 
So even if Mancini wins the league they'll fire him? Sounds like total crap to me.

Makes sense to me:

-Mourinho is a better manager
-Mancini has failed in Europe
-Mancini has fallen out with some players (not saying this is solely down to him but personalities can clash and Mourinho has a fairly good record of deflecting flak from his players)
-MC have the finances to chop and change managers at will
 
Makes sense to me:

-Mourinho is a better manager
-Mancini has failed in Europe
-Mancini has fallen out with some players (not saying this is solely down to him but personalities can clash and Mourinho has a fairly good record of deflecting flak from his players)
-MC have the finances to chop and change managers at will

I have to agree.
 
Makes sense to me:

-Mourinho is a better manager
-Mancini has failed in Europe
-Mancini has fallen out with some players (not saying this is solely down to him but personalities can clash and Mourinho has a fairly good record of deflecting flak from his players)
-MC have the finances to chop and change managers at will

Indeed.
 
I would love to see that. Give him the resources and look what he can do. His record is exemplary. Porto, Chelsea, Inter, and now RM (League pretty much bagged and strong contenders for CL)

He could turn Man City into Englands best force, by a long shot.
 
I would love to see that. Give him the resources and look what he can do. His record is exemplary. Porto, Chelsea, Inter, and now RM (League pretty much bagged and strong contenders for CL)

He could turn Man City into Englands best force, by a long shot.

Porto, relatively one league team, Chelsea, were second before he joined AND Arsenal got worse the next year, Inter, were first before he joined with all the main title rivals having been punished and set back for years, it was also a one team league till they recovered, Real.... Real/Barca tend to go through spells at the top and again most people will point out, he got 3 LESS points in his first year than Real had the year before, and Real have spent epic amounts to regain the title in the past 3 years.

The thing Mourinho has done better than anyone else is move at the right time.

ANY half decent manager moving to Chelsea would have won the title, and the team were definitely getting worse under his helm before he left, ANY manager would have won with Inter while he was there. Best team, rivals with points docked or relegated. Champs league I'll give him, that was impressive, though it took an unprescedented "anti football" campaign to win it and a lot of luck. I think most managers would be doing exactly as well as Real in the league this year also. THe lead was almost exclusively established by Barca being 10-13 points worse off when the lead was at its biggest, NOT Real being 10points better off than the previous season.

Real have bought, to buy the title back, Ronaldo 80mil, Kaka 60mil, Alonso/Benzema/Coentrao/Di Maria 30mil, Khedira/Ozil/Albiol 15mil, Carvalho/Surih/Varane 10mil, Granero/Arbeloa/Callejon 4mil , Adebayor was a 3-4mil loan fee, Altintop on a free and Pedro leon for 8mil who was sold on a free a year later.

So, £350mil give or take, on top of the squad they already had, and the team being ahead in the league is STILL more about Barca getting worse.

As with Chelsea who made massive gains in the league in terms of moving from 4-6th up to a solid 2nd BEFORE he joined, Real had a couple bad years and some low points finishes but spent and were only 3 points behind Barca when he joined.

I've yet to see him take a team, build it up, change it completely, and make a significant change in league position. Can he take over say, Liverpool, or Arsenal and buy/play/train/change the team and make them title winners? I don't know, maybe he can, he's never had to.
 
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