The Mourinho Thread

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Please expand on your point that he is ''one of us''. I'm not quite sure what he's said to earn that title with the exception of coming out with it in his first Press conference back here.

Well I can think if a few things.

he defends the club practically like a fan. People want to moan that he always says the wrong things for a professional manager but won't accept that it's synonymous with him wearing his heart on his sleeve - like a fan does. Carlo, AVB, RDM, Benitez and Hiddink wouldn't speak about the FA'S consistency. Regardless of how far you agree only a fool will turn his back on how Mourinho gets fined for one interview while Wenger gets away with worse. Fans appreciate a manager who speaks out.

every loss hits him like a fan. He's dejected, his face is the same as any blues fan after a defeat - your average manager simply takes it as a disappointing day.

out of all the clubs he had, he could never stop talking about us. People getting butthurt about one comment on Inter should imagine what they and Madrid fans felt like having our name mentioned as much as he did.

how many fans and managers have a relationship like most blues have with Jose? How many slap the club crest on their chest when they win? How many managers get teary when 40,000 chant his name on the first day of a season?

The list goes on. Its funny when doubters want to have a good discussion on the pros and cons on him staying, yet when the Yes camp turn they eye on the bad it seems the no camp are just as stubborn to turn there eyes from the good.

[Melanicus 5,208]

Disgrace, if true.

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Disgrace, if true.

https://twitter.com/danlevene/status/660780173273530368

He needs malouda treatment

[bethos1 802]

Disgrace, if true.

https://twitter.com/danlevene/status/660780173273530368

Probably bullshit, can't think of anyone who would say something like that.

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

This is part of an article from a bloke called Janan Ganesh. He's wrote an autobiography about George Osbourne so he's probably a Tory so i automatically have no time for him. Anyway make your own minds up and please don't have a pop at me if you do or don't agree with it. This was before the Liverpool game.

And now Chelsea’s meltdown. It has no recent precedent in a major league and Mourinho’s reputation might fray with it. His wars with the world are increasingly hard to pass off as clever diversionary gambits. His impatience with flair players looks, for the first time, self-defeating: Kevin de Bruyne, whom he released in 2014, now lights up Manchester City as a £55m maestro.

If Chelsea recover — starting this weekend against Liverpool — Mourinho remains on a trajectory to all-time greatness, along with perhaps only Italy’s Carlo Ancelotti and the Spaniard Pep Guardiola of his generation. But if his tenure ends in another stink, his CV may take on a less flattering cast.

Is he a serial winner or a short-termist incapable of building things to last? Does he prize a team ethic or is he plain stumped by lone visionaries such as Hazard and de Bruyne? And these ­trophies — does he not win them with clubs that would be winning them ­anyway? These questions would have been impudent six months ago. ­Managers are always fighting for their jobs. Mourinho is fighting for his place in ­history

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Mourinho's exit from Chelsea imminent after latest development.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho might be sacked soon as club-owner Roman Abramovich is preparing a £9.5m pay-off.

[Styles 9,790]

Just a terrible approach to football. Almost cowardly.

[MihaiM24 156]

What has happened with this man? I miss him..

[Pacquiao 1,834]

Disgrace, if true.

doubt its true, but if it is that player needs to be named and shamed

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

A member of Chelsea's first-team squad would 'rather lose than win' for Jose Mourinho, according to BBC Radio.

[Jase 43,479]

Disgrace, if true.

Never dull supporting Chelsea FC.

[MihaiM24 156]

Disgrace, if true.

why do I have a feeling it's Hazard?

[Pacquiao 1,834]

Just a terrible approach to football. Almost cowardly.

its not cowardly at all, that is like calling a boxer who fights as a counter puncher a coward, its a very risky way to play you have to rely on your team defending well as a unit and being able to be clinical and punish every mistake, you need big characters in your team to be successful playing that way, but we unfortunately dont anymore.

[stroey 2,525]

why do I have a feeling it's Hazard?

Let me tell you what I know on the Chelsea story. My information comes from a Chelsea first team player.

The information was actually passed to me by a football contact. I was told that Jose Mourinho’s relationship with many of his players is at rock bottom.

I was told they’re fed up with the way he’s been dealing with some of them. They’re fed up with his outbursts. I was told that his relationship particularly with Eden Hazard was under immense strain.

Here’s a staggering quote. One player said recently, “I’d rather lose than win for him”. Now that last quote may well have been said in the heat of the moment, but it perhaps gives an insight into the mood of some of the players.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06mccvf#play

[couris 232]

Good stuff. Hopefully Maureens time here is over.