The Mourinho Thread

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

Urgh ... does La Liga isn't so competitive as well because you have one giant who just win, win and win ? So that's a very hard competition to face from Real Madrid manager I imagine. He basically lost La Liga in autumn in 2012-13, that's how competitive this league is. And this is football we're talking about. Even when you have an obligation to win against Granadas and such, unlike in basketball, voleyball and handball, you really can lose such games.

The Bale thing was simple. He said the Bale stuff when he was La Liga manager which is somewhat understable.

But having the jibes on other managers and trying underappreciate their achievements. That's really not nice. On occasion contradicting himself so much is even less nicer.

And the last thing, I remember when in Chelsea TV post match interview last season he counted his achievements. And he said like every trophy he won wasn't easy to get. Winning Champions League with Porto, getting Premier League from Invincibles, winning treble with Inter, winning the league against best Barcelona in history ... But others achievements weren't easier either. I don't know why someone has to feed his ego so much and create a bad taste even in good moment. How Jose beat the world vol. 18. Why ? Let's live in peace.

[Muzchap 8,966]

I strongly agree with Neville here saying that Roman has to tell Jose that he takes consequences for bringing youth players to the team...

Can you see that happening?

It's a powder keg situation if we start losing with youth

[Jase 43,479]

We won our first league title in 5 years on Sunday and some still want to moan and moan about something unimportant. Unbelievable.

[Tomo 21,754]

We won our first league title in 5 years on Sunday and some still want to moan and moan about something unimportant. Unbelievable.

Just wait until it's confirmed RLC doesn't start on Sunday, this place will crash.

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

Blimey ! Miguel Delaney just wrote about this

“The people who have a big face to say we don't deserve it are the ones who, in my country, we say the dogs bark and the caravan goes by.”

Mourinho was prepared to follow that bark with a real bite. That proverb provided perhaps the most enigmatic words from this public address, but the most conspicuous were saved for a double dig at Pep Guardiola. Although the Portuguese neglected to isolate Chelsea’s key individual Eden Hazard for comment when asked, instead pointing to the collective, he felt no such compunction when honing in on the Bayern Munich manager.

“To win the title in Spain with 100 points against the best Barcelona ever was a big achievement, one I enjoyed so much. But maybe in the future I have to be smarter and choose another country, another club where everybody is champions, even where the kit man is champion coaching in some countries.”

Guardiola was not named, but there was no question about who Mourinho was referring to. He had made a similar comment on the eve of the game, lumping Bayern in with the likes of “Celtic, Basel, Olympiakos” as clubs ‘competing’ in “countries where this domination is common”.

This was no drive-by dig either. Mourinho referenced it twice, at the beginning and end of his press conference, in surprising detail.

It was, in truth, odd.

There are a few dimensions and elements to all of this, but the first is the question of why Mourinho is engaging in this kind of grumpy behaviour rather than just celebrating. Why the need to bring all this up now?

Well, perhaps his is how he celebrates? Perhaps this is how he enjoys himself: savouring a feeling of angry vindication rather than joyous victory.

The Portuguese often seems most satisfied when he is having a mischievous gig, at one of what seems an unhealthily large variety of rivals.

http://bet.unibet.co.uk/football/premier-league/driven-jose-mourinho-angry-vindication-just-important-joyous-celebration

[Styles 9,790]

Honestly, I just think Mourinho's self-esteem and ego took such a battering at Real Madrid that it will take time for him to recover. He left Madrid under such a cloud it's almost understandabl. This is why he hypes up his achievements at every turn.

Although the Portuguese neglected to isolate Chelsea’s key individual Eden Hazard for comment when asked, instead pointing to the collective, he felt no such compunction when honing in on the Bayern Munich manager.

[DYC. 7,542]

Blimey ! Miguel Delaney just wrote about this

http://bet.unibet.co.uk/football/premier-league/driven-jose-mourinho-angry-vindication-just-important-joyous-celebration

Oh dear. He just can't help it.

[duren batu 15]

We won our first league title in 5 years on Sunday and some still want to moan and moan about something unimportant. Unbelievable.

There's thread for that, unless people want to change this thread to moaning thread once again.

[Jase 43,479]

There's thread for that, unless people want to change this thread to moaning thread once again.

[Amblève. 4,995]

[Polo7 3,496]

Thats why we won and the others didnt. #OverhypedEnglish

[stroey 2,525]

http://youtu.be/w0NB2oEuoi8

such a great interview, I liked many things he said.

* The two Crystal Palace guys are good in the air but Zouma is better, when he came on it was game over (like this kind of comments)

* Fabregas gave the team talk prior Crystal Palace game, he said exactly what Mourinho thought '' it was so difficult to get here, let's finish it''.

(hinting at Cesc as next captain?)

* Schurrle goal was best goal of the season, it showed where we were capable of.

* JT and Ivanovic wanted to play every minute this season, they told him from the beginning

* JT was good last season, this year magnificent

* Cesc Fabregas defined our whole game at the beginning of the season, we played beautiful football

* Winning mentality: at the second part of the season, key players were injured or suspended but the players showed their coolness to grind out results.

* Cech is a legend

* praising Remy, Luis, Drogba, Cech, Zouma for giving 100% when given minutes.

* Current Chelsea vs Chelsea 2005-06, which team will win? Jose:'' depends on who is the manager''. (great cocky joke, like it)

* Stays as long as Abramovic wants him to

* Said it was a gamble to come back, because there is extra pressure to deliver after leaving the club which such a success.

[zolayes 14,489]

Thats why we won and the others didnt. #OverhypedEnglish

it helped we had no Scots either

[didierforever 7,349]

oh the sexy and beautiful football bayern played yesterday. such a joy to watch.

the first 16 minutes when pep the genius, the football saviour was playing 3-4-3 with boateng-rafinha-benatia against neymar-suarez-messi was just fabulous. i mean such a footbal is such a joy to watch. probably our college manager has more understanding and tactical nuance than pep the saviour.

i feel so blessed that pep rejected us, even if it meant three-fourth a season of benitez. thank you god.

[mikeholiday 209]

oh the sexy and beautiful football

Indeed. Maybe it's really impossible to achieve both. I'd rather win, personally.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

oh the sexy and beautiful football bayern played yesterday. such a joy to watch.

the first 16 minutes when pep the genius, the football saviour was playing 3-4-3 with boateng-rafinha-benatia against neymar-suarez-messi was just fabulous. i mean such a footbal is such a joy to watch. probably our college manager has more understanding and tactical nuance than pep the saviour.

i feel so blessed that pep rejected us, even if it meant three-fourth a season of benitez. thank you god.

To be honest we just can't complete with elite clubs like Bayern,Real,Barca maybe even Juve. Mourinho simply need more World Class players (who can create and score fantastic goals) We can park the bus as usual, but we must be Deadly, best counter-attacking team to able to beat everyone. To do this we must sign something special this summer 2-3 WC players like 1. Varane 2. Bale/Griezmaan and maybe Koke (Pogba too expensive). .

People thought bayern will stand against Barcelona but the team with the better attacking quality won.

When you have a poor attack compared to your rivals, attacking them by making the game open and end to end for the sake of football is stupid. The higher quality attackers will always win in this situation. Only defend and counter can win most of the time.

All of a sudden, guardiola has no messi in attack and no robben and he can't get a shot on target. If we want to challenge the top four teams, we must have 3 high quality goalscoring players in attack while the midfielders must be quality passers with technical quality.

Maybe Gary neville was right, we may need bale on our right and Koke in midfield to put our team in the Champions League elite and scare the life out of teams with

Hazard - costa - bale/reus

Coming at their defense in full force.

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

Reus is more creative and IMO the medical staff here will probably negate most of his injury troubles

And he'll be cheaper. Much cheaper.

Not that I expect Mou spend more on the RW unless we get an outrageous bid for one of Oscar or Willian.

[Adnane 1,101]

But Reus isn't good on RW, he plays at the left.

[duren batu 15]

But Reus isn't good on RW, he plays at the left.

If azpi could play in left back, I believe mou could make reus play in the rw.

[stroey 2,525]

If azpi could play in left back, I believe mou could make reus play in the rw.

It's not even a problem.

Reus plays 10/LW superbly, let him interchange with Hazard+Willian during the game.

Reus-Eden-Willian

Eden-Reus-Willian

Reus-Willian-Eden

Eden-Willian-Reus

And more

All possible set ups are good with these 3.