The Mourinho Thread

[Jase 43,479]

Fergie's autobiography has been released today. And apparently, there's a 17-page chapter on Mourinho in it..

[Fernando 6,453]

Fergie's autobiography has been released today. And apparently, there's a 17-page chapter on Mourinho in it..

Please do enlighten us if anyone gets it.

I would like to know if it's true that Fergie and United turned Mourinho down.

[The only place to be 11,313]

4) Wine with José Mourinho … and his transfer failures

There is warmth from Ferguson in his chapter about José Mourinho and it is clear that the pair do enjoy a good relationship, despite what Sir Bobby Charlton, the United director, said about it essentially being a marriage of convenience. Ferguson likes younger people with a bit of devil in them and he smiled to himself when he saw the manner in which Mourinho first announced himself at Chelsea as the "Special One".

Ferguson even admits that he went too far in his criticism of Mourinho after United had met his Porto team in the Champions League last 16 first-leg in 2003-04; Ferguson had been infuriated at Porto's diving but, in truth, he was more angry about how Roy Keane had got himself sent off. When Porto knocked United out in the Old Trafford return, Ferguson found a way to congratulate Mourinho and they shared a glass of wine, which became something of a post-match tradition.

Ferguson writes that he found the wine appalling at Stamford Bridge and he told Roman Abramovich so. The following week, he took delivery of a case of Tignanello from the Russian. But the chapter veers away from Mourinho, as Ferguson discusses a range of topics from George Best to the desire of Nemanja Vidic to enlist for the Kosovo conflict and his personal transfer market errors, chief among them Kieran Richardson, Eric Djemba-Djemba, William Prunier and Ralph Milne. There had been the expectation that Ferguson would discuss why he did not advance Mourinho as his Old Trafford successor. There is no mention of the subject in this chapter. DH

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/oct/22/sir-alex-ferguson-autobiography-10-things-we-learned-manchester-united

[Jase 43,479]

Fergie on choosing between Mourinho and Benitez..

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1590570/sir-alex-ferguson-slams-rafael-benitez-making-rivalry-personal?cc=4716

Ferguson also added that, when it came to choosing a winner between his old rivals, Jose Mourinho was the better manager, writing: "Jose Mourinho was far more astute in his handling of players. And he has personality. If you saw Jose and Rafa standing together on the touchline, you knew you could pick the winner."

[Phil Driver 503]

Ferguson was/is a bully he bullied and cheated his way into a position of complete power , but he met his match when he met Jose ,the vision of Fergie bellowing in the 4th officials ear while Jose slipped on Modric for Real Madrid will live with me forever ,the bully reverted to type and the master manager acted quickly and unnoticed and the game was done before Fergie realised what had happened. Special.

[The_Flash 1,144]

I have to disagree Fergie is not a bully. He is a football genius and really spent his life building UTD. It is nice what he has said about Jose in the past. I am sorry I may be a Chelsea/Rangers supporter but I won't have Fergie badmouthed. There will never be a manager at a club for almost 30 years again and it deserves respect.

[gary gordon 1,777]

So are the doubters happy yet?

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Two words: Tactical Masterpiece

[Barbara 15,149]

And that's the power of a good manager.

Perfect tactical match by Mourinho - from the start this time. We had a good 10 minutes of being pressured by them with those corners, shots and headers, but other than that not one minute looked like they could score.

This match should be used by scouters as study material on how to dominate your opponent in their home and still being lethal, dangerous and efficient.

Kudos to all players as well, but Mourinho is another level of manager. He's Special

[Phil Driver 503]

Jose is a better manager now ,I am hoping he will still be Chelsea manager in 10 yes 10 years time ,if he is we will be the power in English football and a European superpower ,lets make this for the long term, we have seen anything else will be second best to Jose he is special and he is Chelsea.

[Hazardous Oscar 8]

And that's the power of a good manager.

Perfect tactical match by Mourinho - from the start this time. We had a good 10 minutes of being pressured by them with those corners, shots and headers, but other than that not one minute looked like they could score.

This match should be used by scouters as study material on how to dominate your opponent in their home and still being lethal, dangerous and efficient.

Kudos to all players as well, but Mourinho is another level of manager. He's Special

no need to get carried away by this result.....this depleted Schalke team is even weaker than Tottenham, and yet we managed to beat them by playing a counter-attacking football....this won't work against Europe's elite....the likes of Borussia and Atletico Madrid will simply rape us if we play like this against them....we need to master passing to keep possession for long periods of time...

[Jase 43,479]

Jose Mourinho: Chelsea manager says he will 'accept FA fine'

No ban involved. Just a fine, as stated in the link.

[didierforever 7,349]

he realy IS the special one.

[Tomo 21,733]

Funny thing is, we may have to see Sturridge scoring goals for Liverpool and Matic playing well for Benfica knowing we let both go, but United are going to be reminded week in week out that they choose Moyes over Mourinho.

[Barbara 15,149]

Funny thing is, we may have to see Sturridge scoring goals for Liverpool and Matic playing well for Benfica knowing we let both go, but United are going to be reminded week in week out that they choose Moyes over Mourinho.

did they? If that was the case I'm sure Fergie would have mentioned in the book that he wanted Mourinho to replace him or that Mourinho wanted to be his replacement.

I still don't buy media's BS that Mourinho wanted to go to OT and I don't think ManU tried to bring him either as they probably knew they didn't stand a chance.

[Tomo 21,733]

did they? If that was the case I'm sure Fergie would have mentioned in the book that he wanted Mourinho to replace him or that Mourinho wanted to be his replacement.

I still don't buy media's BS that Mourinho wanted to go to OT and I don't think ManU tried to bring him either as they probably knew they didn't stand a chance.

I know, but their fans will always believe that, and always be kicking themself's because of it, and it's quite funny seeing them trying to convince themself's Moyes was the man they always wanted

[The_Flash 1,144]

Jose Mourinho: Chelsea manager says he will 'accept FA fine'

No ban involved. Just a fine, as stated in the link.

So is it just a fine?

[Jase 43,479]

So is it just a fine?

Yes, it's stated in the link. And that is also probably why Mourinho just accept the charge because it's only a fine involved..