The Mourinho Thread

[Ankit 3,176]

He actually said that about David Moyes???

Darren Can ‏@Darren_Can7h

Wenger criticised for saying 4th is a trophy. Mourinho on Moyes: "When he finished 4th, it's a trophy. " - Where's the criticism???Darren Can ‏@Darren_Can

7h

Mou: "He didn't take a medal home but for me, it's a trophy." One paper called it "classic Mourinho." Stark contrast to Wenger bashing.

[The only place to be 11,313]

He actually said that about David Moyes???

In context it's slightly less damning with faint praise, but it's still a nice insight.

That task is to overthrow Manchester United while also fending off the threat of Manuel Pellegrini's Manchester City, Wenger's Arsenal and Villas-Boas at Spurs. It is David Moyes at Old Trafford who draws the focus, a manager awaiting his first major honour and tasked with succeeding Ferguson, one of the greatest managers of all time. "Before I won the first trophy I had not won anything, so everyone is the same," said Mourinho. "He is experienced. To win trophies with Everton is not easy. When he finished fourth or fifth there, he didn't take the medal home but it's a trophy.

"One of the most difficult things in the club is to create a victory culture, one where you walk through the front door and smell the success, smell the confidence, smell the self-esteem. When I first came to Chelsea we were training at Harlington [the former university sports ground now occupied by Queens Park Rangers] and the only trophy they had from the previous season was the Malaysian Cup they won here. Now Chelsea is a big club.

"But other times you arrive and just think: 'This is already a big club.' David is in a big club with a winning culture already there, and that is a help. Everybody there knows how to win, but he must be the proudest man in the world and has a huge chance.

"City have bought four important players who will improve their fantastic squad. In my first time here people always put pressure on me, saying: 'You buy this, you spend that, you buy the title.' So I hope now they say that about the other side. But it's not about the money. It's always difficult to win. You can have the best players in the world, but you will have other kinds of problems to deal with, in terms of some choices, changes, rotations and turnovers."

[Heisenberg 1,824]

:Goober: :Goober:

[Paul1970 250]

With you hayle....I should say so

[Tomo 21,751]

Although we haven't kicked a competitive ball yet, Jose has reminded me why he is the best in the world.

Most manager's would have probably gone along with loaning KDB back out, Jose said no and brought him back in, most manager's would have just said yes to MVG's loan request, Jose said no.

He just always seem's to be that step ahead.

[Jase 43,479]

Although we haven't kicked a competitive ball yet, Jose has reminded me why he is the best in the world.

Most manager's would have probably gone along with loaning KDB back out, Jose said no and brought him back in, most manager's would have just said yes to MVG's loan request, Jose said no.

He just always seem's to be that step ahead.

Or maybe it's because of the financial FFP constraints that has led to Mourinho integrating them into his plans and build a team from there right away rather than loaning them out. He, after all, has touched on this issue a few times already and I'm sure if it wasn't for the constraints, he would have probably loaned 2-3 out and get in the more experienced players.

[Tomo 21,751]

Or maybe it's because of the financial FFP constraints that has led to Mourinho integrating them into his plans and build a team from there right away rather than loaning them out. He, after all, has touched on this issue a few times already and I'm sure if it wasn't for the constraints, he would have probably loaned 2-3 out and get in the more experienced players.

Well this supposed FFP constraint is hardly stopping City spunking £100m, so considering we turned over an (all be it small) profit last year, i hardly think we would have any problem doing the same if need be.

[didierforever 7,349]

Well this supposed FFP constraint is hardly stopping City spunking £100m, so considering we turned over an (all be it small) profit last year, i hardly think we would have any problem doing the same if need be.

city dint spend anything in the last transfer window. their total spending for the last year was about 13 mil (they sold johnson(12m), balo (20m), de jong(3m)etc). this year so far they have done a business of 72mil. grand total for the past 2 years is about 85mil.

we on the other hand spent 65mil last year, and 23 mil this year. which makes our grand total to 88mil.

also we are yet to finish our business in transfer market (i would say, we would buy rooney for 30mil and sell BA for 10, so thats 20mil more) where as city seems to have gathered a good squad which i seriously doubt they ll be changing anymore.

so we do have a lot of problems when it comes to FFP. we had earned that small profit only because we won the CL in 2011-12. the fact that we were playing post-season friendlies after a season of almost 70 matches should tell you how desperately short we would be when it comes to FFP. also the out of the blue roma friendly.

[edetarod 2,155]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O5oqRe8CVk

[Milan 17,955]

Jose Mourinho pledges his support to help England succeed at World Cup 2014

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/10196540/Jose-Mourinho-pledges-his-support-to-help-England-succeed-at-World-Cup-2014.html

Mourinho said: “I want to help. I want to support them.

“I will prepare players in a good way.

“I’ll prepare them well, motivate them well to have a good season — and let them arrive in the last part of the season in great condition.”

He added: “I’ll make them an option for the national team — and make them an option for the national manager. I will do with my English players everything I can to support them.

“And I will be very happy if England and my English players can succeed. So, yes, I will try to help my English players.

“All managers have to think about trying to support them.”

Is this another way to attract Rooney even more?

[nadavTKL 1,787]

Those "we'll defenetly wont sell/buy anyone" comments in mid-July are realy getting annoying. Especially if he means it.

[Barbara 15,149]

http://www.espn.com.br/video/344191_mourinho-diz-que-chelsea-e-seu-habitat-natural-e-ressalta-que-para-time-ser-grande-nao-bastam-titulos

Video with part of Mourinho's press conference (in English)

[robdog 2,084]

Loved how Jose just smashed all of these silly lil' rumors of Blues getting sold to PSG or Barca, or even le arse. Go Get 'em Jose!!!

[Laylabelle 9,534]

Those "we'll defenetly wont sell/buy anyone" comments in mid-July are realy getting annoying. Especially if he means it.

Doubt it...well hope so lol.Usually its a good comment as means we can get on with things quietly rather then being linked with every single player he says he likes

Still crazy he's back.Least with Moyles being new to Man U less focus on anytime a result goes wrong etc and the stupid headlines that tend to come with.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

city dint spend anything in the last transfer window. their total spending for the last year was about 13 mil (they sold johnson(12m), balo (20m), de jong(3m)etc). this year so far they have done a business of 72mil. grand total for the past 2 years is about 85mil.

we on the other hand spent 65mil last year, and 23 mil this year. which makes our grand total to 88mil.

also we are yet to finish our business in transfer market (i would say, we would buy rooney for 30mil and sell BA for 10, so thats 20mil more) where as city seems to have gathered a good squad which i seriously doubt they ll be changing anymore.

so we do have a lot of problems when it comes to FFP. we had earned that small profit only because we won the CL in 2011-12. the fact that we were playing post-season friendlies after a season of almost 70 matches should tell you how desperately short we would be when it comes to FFP. also the out of the blue roma friendly.

I think this is less about FFP but more of our club looking to break even as planned years before FFP came in. Every better accountant can fuck FFP over. If we wanted immediate success like City or like we did 9 years ago, we would have no problems splashing cash.

But I hate it we are not in for more. Instead of this van ginkel signing when we got Josh, Chalobah who are arguably not that much behind MvG from our own youth behind Lamps and Ramires we should really look for that De-Rossi signing or something similar who really can make an impact and brings in experience. Even if MvG as an goalscoring B2Bmidfielder shall be Lamps replacement. We do not even got a proper place for Lampard in our formation so how shall MvG fit in there??? Both, Essien and Mikel are not good enough for the holding role in a double pivot, both ahve seen better times, both are better in a 4-3-3 and both are simply not the quality we fuckin need there.

And instead of just spending some odd 15m for a classy DM, which will not harm us financially at all, we fuck a round with a blockbuster 30m+ 220k a week Rooney signing. I mean wtf? With de Rossi or Luiz Gustavo our squad would be complete. BAyern won the triple last year with bloody Mario Mandzukic as striker. Ok, no one would win the EPL with Mario mandzukic, but Lukaku scored just as many league goals in less games than the Bayern striker. Even fuckin Torres scored more goals than him...I think if you had Lukaku, Ba, Torres in the Bundesliga they would outscore Gomez, Pizarro, Mandzukic.

So my point is. Attacking wise we are much better off than in terms of DM tho 15m there and we are fine. 30m for a striker and we still have a weak DP. Some games last season, many games actually were lost because we had no one up front to finish our chances. But remember those 2-2 draws vs S'hampton and Reading? We were shit in these games and did not have many chances, still Ba and Lamps were clinical enough to secure 2 goal leads. Afterwards we simply got overrun and got unlucky. With a fuckin decent DM this would never happen. Remember us being stuffed by ManCity? We weren't wasteful, we did not even had real chances cos we got overrun in midfield. Last year we only got an inconsistent Torres and an inconsistent Ba. To the end of the season Torres looked at-least a half-decent player (kinda Kalou like), Ba will surely find his feet sometime and Lukaku is promising, so we already have massively improved there. In DM we are just as shit as last year with the difference being we got another average player on outrageous wages who is just not suited for that role + Lamps is a year older. So, all in all, exactrly 0 players suited for the DP.