Mourinho
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One of the best managers of the moment, and eventually all time. I will always have a soft spot for him really building Chelsea up and making us the force we are. I could not believe we let him go, and still rue the decision today.
His first year with us (04/05) was one of the best seasons in memory, our first league win in 50 years, an incredible league cup victory over the scouse and my favourite european match of all time the 4-2 victory over Barca.
Our team that year was phenomenal, and yet to be matched. Most points ever in a PL season, fewest goals conceded, most victories and most clean sheets. All in the same season. I would love him back at Chelsea at some point, but it seems very unlikely giving the nature of his departure
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His first year with us (04/05) was one of the best seasons in memory, our first league win in 50 years, an incredible league cup victory over the scouse and my favourite european match of all time the 4-2 victory over Barca.
Our team that year was phenomenal, and yet to be matched. Most points ever in a PL season, fewest goals conceded, most victories and most clean sheets. All in the same season. I would love him back at Chelsea at some point, but it seems very unlikely giving the nature of his departure
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I think it's plain to see that he's after the United job, cant for the life of me see him coming back to England to join another club other than United. With Fergie still going strong though old Jose may need to make a decision about where he goes next if he does leave Inter this summer, he might very well have to forfeit the United job a go to a City or Liverpool instead
You're confusing scoring goals with playing good football though. As an Arsenal fan I can (un)happily point to plenty of occasions where we've played pretty little tippy-tappy stuff without actually getting it in the onion bag.
Even if he had them winning every game 5-0 with route one passes, Madrid would still sack Mourinho.
I gotta disagree on this one.
If he continues at the rate he is going, he will go down as the greatest manager of all time, by a country mile. How many managers can boast the sheer number of league titles that he has amassed at his age. Don't forget the Champions League, as well.
I liken him to Roger Federer in tennis: a few years back, everybody said Sampras is tops. I disagreed and felt that Federer was the best of all time and it was simply a matter of time as he collected all the pots and prizes to prove it. Low and behold - time has passed and he has collected more pots and prizes than Sampras ever did...and counting. I place Mourinho in the same bracket - he is the best.
He'll have to win the Europeaen Cup at least another time before he'll be regarded as an all time great.
Without knocking him, his only notable achievement is the CL win with Porto imo, everything else he's won has been expected (although not easy). He took over a very strong Chelsea side, spent £m's and was up against an Arsenal side starting their decline and Utd being rebuilt. Given the strength of Chelsea's squad and what they were up against, you'd have expected them to win the league. As soon as Utd put a side together they lost the league title depsite having a stronger squad than Utd (although there was some politics going on behind the scenes). It's a similar story with Inter; before he joined they were winning the league every year and failing in the CL and they're still winning the league every year and failing in the CL.
As for the stuff about him taking over at Utd; it makes no sense imo. Mourinho's a maverick manager, he takes a job for a few years then gets fed up or upsets the wrong people and leaves. He's not the sort of manager that builds any kind of legacy. I really would not be surprised if he was at City in a year or so.
Talk of him being an all time great is slightly premature. I'd love to see him take on a challenge in a big league, pick a team where he can't spend £150m and build a fantasy team, in the real world that 99% of other managers have to live in. If he can do that like Ferguson and Wenger have done time and again then he'll be up there with the all time greats, no doubt.
Personally I can't see him ever taking a difficult job again, he doesn't need to, and why should he when he can go to the likes of Chelsea and Inter and spend whatever he wishes.
Personally I can't see him ever taking a difficult job again, he doesn't need to, and why should he when he can go to the likes of Chelsea and Inter and spend whatever he wishes.
depends on how much money you give him or what team he inherits, With the Chelsea team he bought (1/2 of which was from Porto), and the Inter team he inherited , its not that difficult (esp given what the Italian league was going through the season he arrived)
Right man at the right time, nothing more nothing lesss
There is a difference; the banks in Spain continue to write Madrid a blank cheque every season, whether it is sound business sense or them being the 'Royal' team is a story for another day. Madrid will never want for money.
Utd despite the press harping on about it have a mortgage which they are currently paying off with ease. Their owners also realise that to continue this they need to invest and buy the best. Unlike the Americans at Liverpool who tried the same trick at a club nowhere near Utds commercial level and are now paying a heavy price (the club not the Americans)
Are Man Utd paying it off with ease? I thought the repayments were massive and the only reason they posted profits last year was because they sold Ronaldo, could be wrong, I don't know everything tbh
As for Real, the situation stinks. If I was a Spanish tax payer I would be outraged.
As for Real, the situation stinks. If I was a Spanish tax payer I would be outraged.
According to the books they only posted a profit last year because of the Ronaldo sale, you are correct.
Utd are paying it off a lot easier than most articles woudl like you to believe (as most are basically copy and paste of other articles)
New shirt sponsors online next season, a lot of other sponsorships around the stadium and in the Middle east and majority of home games are a sell out (although I am the first to admit we would be in a lot worse **** than Liverpool if we dropped out of the top four even for one season)
there are still serious problems but the main one is how much the Glazers actually want to take out of the club in the next few years (several hundred million sterling)
New shirt sponsors online next season, a lot of other sponsorships around the stadium and in the Middle east and majority of home games are a sell out (although I am the first to admit we would be in a lot worse **** than Liverpool if we dropped out of the top four even for one season)
there are still serious problems but the main one is how much the Glazers actually want to take out of the club in the next few years (several hundred million sterling)
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I think moyes will take over if fergie ever retired from united i have just seen how good manager jose is but i never would want him at liverpool.
Surely Moyes wouldnt be good enough?
Don't get me wrong, he isn't a bad manager, but Man United are the biggest club in Britain and one of the biggest in the World. As such, they NEED to have a big name on board, if only to gain the respect of the players and attract new, top class players. Moyes simply isn't of the callibre of manager required to be at Man Utd.
Don't get me wrong, he isn't a bad manager, but Man United are the biggest club in Britain and one of the biggest in the World. As such, they NEED to have a big name on board, if only to gain the respect of the players and attract new, top class players. Moyes simply isn't of the callibre of manager required to be at Man Utd.
