The Mourinho Thread

[Mouri_Matic 560]

One of the best manager in football history.

[Special Juan 27,553]

Special, just special.

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06OyUW6_afM

[Mceachran 109]

Mourinho for world leader... after he wins every trophy possible for the club 10 years in a row.

[Jase 43,479]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T23JhMQp1gs

[Jase 43,479]

Lampard: Chelsea cannot rely on Mourinho effect to gift them title

[Azpinator 2,325]

It's certainly nice to see a manager that celebrates and responds to goals, missed chances, refereeing decisions and all that for a change after going through the statue-esque expressions to all that of a certain 'Interim One'...

Oh well..

[Tomo 21,737]

I just watched back Jose's interview after the City vs Madrid game when he was asked about Robbie getting sacked for Rafa and looking at it now, you could tell in his eyes he was not liking the fact his arch rival was in his (what was at the time) former seat.

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

I just watched back Jose's interview after the City vs Madrid game when he was asked about Robbie getting sacked for Rafa and looking at it now, you could tell in his eyes he was not liking the fact his arch rival was in his (what was at the time) former seat.

Thats hardly a surprise bearing in mind Jose is one of us, and no real Chelsea supporter was liking that fact.

Thank fuck those times are over.

[Jase 43,479]

Of course, new job, big club, emotions are high.

TBF, AVB has always reacted to goals scored, chances missed and any other things that happen on the pitch in an animated way. Was the same at Porto, here and now Spurs. He celebrates overzealously in fact and sometimes, it does look OTT.

[Fernando 6,502]

I just watched back Jose's interview after the City vs Madrid game when he was asked about Robbie getting sacked for Rafa and looking at it now, you could tell in his eyes he was not liking the fact his arch rival was in his (what was at the time) former seat.

It was the same for Inter.

How sad must have been for him and those Inter fans.

We got lucky that at least we made top 3 with Torres and Benitez leading the line.

[Barbara 15,149]

I laughed really hard. I'm easy like that.

[Barbara 15,149]

Mourinho's presser for those who missed it (vid and transcription)

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3419363/title/mourinho-considers-the-contenders

[Laylabelle 9,411]

So nice to look at the Manager and be filled with confidence that the decison he makes will be the right one...

[Mceachran 109]

"Football is full of top talents but not many top players." - Jose

Love it!

[Barbara 15,149]

'We will destroy opponents!'... Mourinho believes Chelsea will turn into 'predators' once they get into their groove

I love this quote by him in the article:

‘If we do that, we will destroy an opponent,’ he said. ‘We’ll get a much bigger result because going that way you have to score goals.

‘We want to win matches. But what I like is that when you have the chance to beat them by three, four or five, we have to do it.’

And that's the Mourinho I've been repeatedly telling has been training RM for the past three seasons.

If anyone here expects the 2004-07-Mourinho to have returned, prepare yourselves for something else.

The man completely changed his view on football and while there are many things that continue the same from his first spell here, how he approaches the game isn't one of them.

He's been very effective with this new mentality in RM (imo) and I have no doubts he'll be the same here, especially because we have the players for it. He's betting a lot on André - although I'm still not convinced André will become what he hopes he will. He will be very careful with Lukaku and see if he can also become what he aims. I don't feel like I know both players enough to say, but if they aren't what he needs them to be, he'll bring others. Hazard, Oscar, Kevin, Moses in addition to those two are the ones he's going to watch closely.

I'm so excited about his time here with us. This season is the complicated one, the transitional, and it'd be great if we could bite one of the big trophies, but next season will be the hit. And from there on I think we may have the chance to become the next 'it' club in the world.

[Heisenberg 1,824]

I love this quote by him in the article:

And that's the Mourinho I've been repeatedly telling has been training RM for the past three seasons.

If anyone here expects the 2004-07-Mourinho to have returned, prepare yourselves for something else.

The man completely changed his view on football and while there are many things that continue the same from his first spell here, how he approaches the game isn't one of them.

He's been very effective with this new mentality in RM (imo) and I have no doubts he'll be the same here, especially because we have the players for it. He's betting a lot on André - although I'm still not convinced André will become what he hopes he will. He will be very careful with Lukaku and see if he can also become what he aims. I don't feel like I know both players enough to say, but if they aren't what he needs them to be, he'll bring others. Hazard, Oscar, Kevin, Moses in addition to those two are the ones he's going to watch closely.

I'm so excited about his time here with us. This season is the complicated one, the transitional, and it'd be great if we could bite one of the big trophies, but next season will be the hit. And from there on I think we may have the chance to become the next 'it' club in the world.

This is not a transitional season, there are not transitional season with José Mourinho.We'll win titles this year, maybe the Cup, maybe the League or even the League Cup but we'll compete until the end for sure.The approach may be a little bit different but the results of our new Chelsea will be the same like 2004.We'll be winners again, very well organised defensively, and maybe more possession-minded team since we have different profiles this time for José.

[Barbara 15,149]

This is not a transitional season, there are not transitional season with José Mourinho.We'll win titles this year, maybe the Cup, maybe the League or even the League Cup but we'll compete until the end for sure.The approach may be a little bit different but the results of our new Chelsea will be the same like 2004.We'll be winners again, very well organised defensively, and maybe more possession-minded team since we have different profiles this time for José.

Of course it's transition... for we have a new manager. There's no way it isn't a transition. RM team in 2010 was better than ours - any team that has Cristiano Ronaldo has something else compared to the others and they had him and a bunch more that were older, on their peak and experienced - and it was a transition season where he was spanked by Barcelona in the biggest beat up between the clubs lately (5-0) and although they finished 2nd in La Liga by only 4 points, that was mainly because Barcelona had a huge lead and they started dropping points towards the end of the season (9). They made it to CL SF - again their team was better than our current squad - and only won the Cup (Copa del Rey). I'm not saying we won't win, but to deny this is a transitional season seems nonsensical as we're under a new management, we have new players, we have many young players (9 under 23) and we'll change the mentality the club has had for the past few years. There's no way you don't go through a transition to reach the goals. There isn't magic in football and that's the capital mistake ManCity does year after year. They build a team with great names, and then the next season - because it didn't work as good as they wanted - they change half of the team again. There's no immediate and magical result. It's a process and Mourinho already asked time himself.

I never said though we won't win titles. I just said next season we will be a hit and that hopefully we are able to grab some titles already in this one. José faces this season as transitional. He already said that although he'll do his best to win titles now this is a team for the future. There aren't really many ways to interpret a sentence like that...