The Mourinho Thread

[We Hate Scouse 10,286]

Yeah, so much for him being a Chelsea fan...

I don't think any professional player can play at top level supporting another club with proper passion. It just doesn't work.

On one hand I'm gutted we didn't get him, but on the other I'm glad we didn't with those wages. Fair play to him for managing to get them though.

[Blue Armour 4,323]

Excuses. Atletico reached UCL Final last season, and their home league were harder for them than PL was for us. Years ago when 3 out of 4 teams in UCL semi-finals were from PL, I don't remember this talk about PL teams being quite worn in the knockout rounds of UCL, AND if now those teams are facing tougher and similar-level opposition, its not necessarily because the rest of the league is better than years ago...

and we can't forget teams like Sunderland and Stoke can be really tough opponents, but anyone who is not involved with PL will have a laugh if you say those teams are very hard to beat. Its really easy for us, who are watching PL week after week to say that Spurs or Everton are very good teams, but those teams are barely known outside PL. People who are involved with La Liga and Bundesliga, for example, they don't think Spurs, Everton, Sunderland or Stoke are tough opposition. Is Everton and Spurs better than Leverkusen and Schalke 04, or Sevilla and Villareal? People who are watching PL week after week will say yes, people who are watching Bundesliga or La Liga won't believe Everton and Spurs are better than those teams.

To be honest this kind of attitude is similar to what happened with Brazil for many years, failure after failure, people here always believed the football still was the best, still was the best, even when the evidences were saying a different scenario. At this point, the idea of PL still being the strongest in the world is really odd.

True..but there was a sharp decline in quality of the squads of the traditional big 4 (United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool) since 2010. Its not that their opposition became tougher in the league,... its that they became more level with their opposition. This has in turn made the league more competitive

I think this season, (if all the rumored transfers go through), will make a direction change towards what we used to see in 2004-2009, with better performances in the knockout rounds of the CL.

[Fernando 6,491]

Did anyone catch this from Mourinho:

The Blues boss added: "We clearly needed a player for the midfield with a different profile and we had two or three options, but, my club were fantastic with the way they killed the situation with Fabregas.

I wonder who those other options was.

Paulinho?

[stroey 2,525]

Did anyone catch this from Mourinho:

The Blues boss added: "We clearly needed a player for the midfield with a different profile and we had two or three options, but, my club were fantastic with the way they killed the situation with Fabregas.

I wonder who those other options was.

Paulinho?

Kroos and Koke

[The Chels 2,502]

Did anyone catch this from Mourinho:

The Blues boss added: "We clearly needed a player for the midfield with a different profile and we had two or three options, but, my club were fantastic with the way they killed the situation with Fabregas.

I wonder who those other options was.

Paulinho?

I remember it was Paulinho (lol), Koke and Pogba according to the Telegraph/Guardian.

[HD3D 1,038]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2706095/Jose-Mourinho-didnt-try-sign-Luke-Shaw-120-000-week-wage-unsettled-Chelsea.html

Mourinho: ‘because when you pay that much to a 19-year-old kid - a good player, fantastic player - but when you pay that amount of money, the next day, we would have had players knocking on our door.'
Mourinho: 'How come a 19-year-old comes here and gets more money than I get? It would kill immediately our balance and we don’t allow that.'

He is deliberately sending a message to Man United players right there ahahahaha!

[edetarod 2,155]

lol, that is fantastic mind games

[gary gordon 1,777]

The best instigator in the world. He knows what it takes to cause disharmony in the dressing room.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Lol, United fans are going nuts over his comment. Most are saying he's bitter he didn't get the United job

[Heisenberg 1,824]

Lol, United fans are going nuts over his comment. Most are saying he's bitter he didn't get the United job

Still talking about the United job ? I say its the contrary, its them who are disapointed to have had Moyes instead of him.Jealousy, like Brian Clough once said, its destructive.How blind they are...

[Barbara 15,149]

talking about DD

[DYC. 7,542]

Cech, Courtois, Schwarzer, Blackman

Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Zouma, Luis, Aké

Matic, Fabregas, Ramires, Mikel, Van Ginkel, Romeu

Willian, Salah, Oscar, Hazard, Schurrle

Costa, Drogba, Torres, Lukaku

Marin and Moses will most likely leave. 4 HG players, one being 4th choice GK.

A bit heavy in centre midfield. Wonder how he'll juggle playing time there. One or two player might never play.

Can't imagine all four strikers staying either. Torres isn't going anywhere so I don't think Lukaku will be a Chelsea player next season.

This squad has to win.

[iseah100 5,612]

@ChelsPhotos: Mourinho — ‘We are going to have (Andreas) Christensen and (Nathan) Ake, in the first team,who are coming from the Academy,’

[LDN Blue 7,903]

@ChelsPhotos: Mourinho — ‘We are going to have (Andreas) Christensen and (Nathan) Ake, in the first team,who are coming from the Academy,’

Remains to be seen what he means by 'first team'

[Blue Gino 377]

I'd like to see Bamford, Chalobah and Baker join Omeruo at Boro under Karanka.

[Barbara 15,149]

Mourinho expects to bring a couple of them into the first-team squad for the coming campaign, and believes the future is bright.

‘We are going to have (Andreas) Christensen and (Nathan) Ake, who are coming from the Academy,’ he said. ‘We are going to have training with us, but also playing for the Under-21 team, (Dominic) Solanke, (Jeremie) Boga and (Izzy) Brown.

‘The other ones who are a bit older, 20 or 21, we feel they need to compete against men in a different league, people like Bamford, Swift, Chalobah. They are ready to go to other clubs and have a good loan.

‘What we are trying to do, and we believe we are going to be successful, is in a few years’ time, when they are between 20 and 23, we will have them back at the right moment and in the first-team squad.’

From the Official Site.

well, I don't think based solely in the games that Izzy Brown should be promoted to the first team - especially in a position we're stocked, but as usual, I'll trust Mourinho's assessment.

I miss Baker in either list (training with the first team or being loaned). He was better than everyone else except Boga imo and he isn't mentioned at all. I feel for the kid.

Good luck for the boys being promoted.

[Madmax 9,219]

^Maybe he just forgot to mention Baker. Like LDN said, remains to be seen what 'first team' means. Aside from the experience of being around top players and Mourinho, I'm not sure what good it'll do Christensen to be 5th 3rd choice CB here. I'd have thought Chalobah, who's further along in his development, would've had a better shot at being a squad option, especially considering his versatility and Mourinho's praise of him last season.

[Jase 43,479]

Have to say, Mourinho has certainly pulled no punches with what he has said. He has been sending out the message that "we'll be challenging for the titles", "we are ready to compete" etc and that practically means, should he find any excuses next season, it could well fall flat on his face. Considering Mourinho's nature, am surprised he has taken a bold and initiative approach rather than trying to play the 'underdog' cards. Gonna be interesting to see what happens next season.