The Mourinho Thread

[Barbara 15,149]

The most dissapointing thing is that apparently he worked the hardest ever, players working the hardest ever, they came with conclusion from defeats. There's literally nothing new at all, even as primitive thing as corner kicks remain the same, some new patterns for corners is the minimum you can expect but there's nothing new.

yep. I'm disappointed with his choices, but it seems like he works hard, but not what should be worked. We look like a team that hasn't been drilled in anything.

We look poor in all three zones of the pitch. We have no unit, organization, style, anything.

Blaming him for playing Ivanovic is the easy way to show how poor he's been. We look exactly the opposite of what we were last season around this time. We were still organizing our defense, but those were individual mistakes, not the lack of everything we see now.

It seems he's been worrying too much about too many things - many of them which aren't even his problem - and not focusing in the one that is his problem alone: train the team properly.

Why do we look so insipid? because the players are poor? That's just one aspect. Even poor players show through their poor playing they have drilled something in training sessions. We look completely lost. Like a bunch of players put together. If one tried to use a word to define our defense, midfield and attack what word (other than mess) could they come up with? Teams have philosophies, and whether they're bad or good is up to discussion, but we look like nothing. Every time we defend in defense or midfield, we make transition from defense to midfield and midfield to attack and every time we attack we look a different way. Sometimes we press, sometimes we don't, sometimes we play a low block, sometimes we don't, sometimes we transition exchanging passes, sometimes we move the ball quickly forward. Sometimes our striker is out of the box, sometimes he's inside, sometimes our wingers infiltrate, sometimes they don't. We never shoot outside the box (today was the exception). Actually this season we barely shot. We look clueless in all sort of set piece, but especially lost in our corners.

This is a team that hasn't been drilled and that's much worse than playing Ivanovic. For that José should be held responsible more than anything else and for that he should consider resigning if he doesn't come up with answers, that's his main job after all.

[Styles 9,790]

People acting like it's a few games when we've playing badly all calendar year.

Winning an extremely weak league last year set us up for failure.

[yuvala 2,167]

I don't want him to go, but what's there to be done? Sack the players? Fine them? Do what? I really can't see a solution to this. Maybe he just needs to publicly admit that he's lost it, then shut the hell up and then try to fix it as much as it can be fixed.

No quickfire solution here..

Support the team, support the manager and get through this horrible season.

Then start again next season.

[Tomo 21,751]

These calls for Carlo are hilarious, are you people forgetting he oversaw a run of one win in nine games?

[The Rising Sun 711]

mourinho out. Too much ego and too less on the training field.

He has the magic of going to a team and understanding what it needs to win a title.

Once that title is won, and those players lose their flair due to his boring management, they stop performing, and he doesnt have any new ideas.

4-4-2 ? does he even think of new formations? or even different players for positions.

Out.

[ZOS 580]

I don't want him to go but I would understand the decision if gets the boot.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

mourinho out. Too much ego and too less on the training field.

He has the magic of going to a team and understanding what it needs to win a title.

Once that title is won, and those players lose their flair due to his boring management, they stop performing, and he doesnt have any new ideas.

4-4-2 ? does he even think of new formations? or even different players for positions.

Out.

Nope all he knows is 433, 4231 and 442 when chasing a goal. Also attacking sense he is FUCKING CLUELESS, he doesn't know shit and there is a reason why his team never consistently play fluent football. Counter attacking is the only main method he knows

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

"I don't blame the players, I don't blame myself. I don't accept the result". First noise from the post match interview.

Wow, that's a new one. But what the fuck does it actually mean though? I don't accept the result. The result is what the result is. Whether you "accept" it or not is irrelevant. And he should really blame himself first and foremost. Just pussyfooting around the fact his tactics have been ineffectual and his team has been found out. Difficult to take his words seriously anymore. Sounds like a dead man walking.

[Pizy 18,877]

Wow. Reading these quotes from his post match on Twitter...

Has he lost the plot? This is scary.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

"I don't blame the players, I don't blame myself. I don't accept the result". First noise from the post match interview.

Wow, that's a new one. But what the fuck does it actually mean though? I don't accept the result. The result is what the result is. Whether you "accept" it or not is irrelevant. And he should really blame himself first and foremost. Just pussyfooting around the fact his tactics have been ineffectual and his team has been found out. Difficult to take his words seriously anymore. Sounds like a dead man walking.

Maybe he is indirectly 'blaming the board' for not signing any top class players this summer? Even then with the same squad as last season this is just not good enough.

[Roquila 1,335]

What a nice tactical game. Starting with KDB, Schurrle and Lukaku was a masterstroke. After we were winning 3-2 Jose knew that we need a better defensive shape so he subbed Mata who was playing as CM to get Felipe Luis in this game.
David Luiz had a great game too, he even scored a header! Petr Cech made some awesome saves that would've been goals if it were any other keeper playing for us.

[Barbara 15,149]

Wow. Reading these quotes from his post match on Twitter...

Has he lost the plot? This is scary.

I didn't even bother to read them, I know he'll blame someone, say we deserved better and that his players were amazing.

Did I miss anything or got anything wrong?

[Fernando 6,585]

I still think he can turn it around by the end of the season. Heck we can even win the CL for all we know.

But we got to be realistic. He is not a man to stay at our team for long periods of time.

You did 3 years that's good. Helped balanced the team out got us competitive and that's all we wanted.

Now we want to grow in our style and produce more of our own. Is he the man to do it?

Doubt it.

I have no problem having one great season and then having one sub standard, just as long as there's progress.

Right now I don't know what progress we got other then a lot of commotion. And all because of the way Mourinho behaves and acts.

That's not a good thing to have for many years as it gets boring.

At least with city and pellegrini a lower quality coach there's progress. And that's what you always want to see even if you don't win anything.

[Parky 739]

Its like Groundhog Day every match day. Same selections, same formation, same shit football and same pathetic excuses by Jose.

This is indefensible now.

[DYC. 7,542]

These calls for Carlo are hilarious, are you people forgetting he oversaw a run of one win in nine games?

How are you feeling about the rest of the season?