The Mourinho Thread

[iseah100 5,612]

Yea. We looked shaky against two newly promoted teams in the previous match too. Defend like this at the Ethiad and they'll punish us.

Seasons barely starting, of course we're not gonna be in tip top form. City lost to Stoke so let's not act like they're destroying the field right now. We, and City, will get things together sooner rather than later.

[NishC300 1,865]

Seasons barely starting, of course we're not gonna be in tip top form. City lost to Stoke so let's not act like they're destroying the field right now. We, and City, will get things together sooner rather than later.

Yea. Not too worried about that atm. Defence was one of the few things we were good at last year.

[Jase 43,479]

Jose Mourinho: Financial fair play benefits traditional giants

[stroey 2,525]

Jose Mourinho: Financial fair play benefits traditional giants

Spot on, world giants like United Real Barca have al real advantage with FFP.

[Fernando 6,491]

Jose Mourinho: Financial fair play benefits traditional giants

Well look on the bright side, now we can finally try to implement more of our youth academy players. In two or three years it will be more conducive.

[BloodIsBlue 291]

Jose Mourinho: Financial fair play benefits traditional giants

Not really a secret by now, the whole thing is to stop the creation of any other Chelsea-like or Man City-like clubs and continue the monopoly the giant clubs have.

[Fernando 6,491]

Not really a secret by now, the whole thing is to stop the creation of any other Chelsea-like or Man City-like clubs and continue the monopoly the giant clubs have.

Uhmmmm Chelsea and Roman was the biggest backers of this FFP.

[The Chels 2,502]

Uhmmmm Chelsea and Roman was the biggest backers of this FFP.

Yes because we're already established as a big club (albeit not to the same extent as the likes of Real). Do you think Roman would have supported this when he'd just taken over? No chance.

[Myself 793]

Since we're talking about this already, I think the only suitable replacements for Mourinho (god forbid he leaves in the next 5 years) are all unavailable. So Luis Enrique, Klopp and Simeone.

Frank Lampard has to manage us at some point as well

[TheOneChan95 225]

Jose Mourinho: Financial fair play benefits traditional giants

Agree with this. It does benefit us to a certain degree though since there wouldn't be another City popping up. The Prem is competitive enough as it is so I could live without it. The one to be careful of right now is United since this really benefits them. If they miss out on top 4 for a few seasons then I think as a whole, the gap between the New Rich(Us, City) and them would be closer. We may have had a brilliant transfer window but I doubt we can pull off deals the magnitude of Luiz and Mata every season.

[Fernando 6,491]

Agree with this. It does benefit us to a certain degree though since there wouldn't be another City popping up. The Prem is competitive enough as it is so I could live without it. The one to be careful of right now is United since this really benefits them. If they miss out on top 4 for a few seasons then I think as a whole, the gap between the New Rich(Us, City) and them would be closer. We may have had a brilliant transfer window but I doubt we can pull off deals the magnitude of Luiz and Mata every season.

Yes that's true and people tend to overlooked that.

We had an imbalance squad for the philosophy of Mourinho.

Now that he sold that excess we will be back to square one in the coming transfer window.

Meaning we will have to buy without much selling.

This is where Mourinho must come good with implementation of younger players from the Academy.

The club has spent a lot of money in this and will continue to do so, since this is one aspect that gets excluded from FFP calculations.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Yes that's true and people tend to overlooked that.

We had an imbalance squad for the philosophy of Mourinho.

Now that he sold that excess we will be back to square one in the coming transfer window.

Meaning we will have to buy without much selling.

This is where Mourinho must come good with implementation of younger players from the Academy.

The club has spent a lot of money in this and will continue to do so, since this is one aspect that gets excluded from FFP calculations.

Even without anyone leaving imo every summer still have 50m or so anyway from revenue, sometime maybe even more depending on which competition we won. Also who to say with new signings come on in the players in the squad won't leave? For example lets say we sign Reus for 30m next summer and sell Salah for 5-10m or Schurrle for 20m, we are not really spending that much money on players.

The days of us just splash out 50m on a new striker without selling anyone is over imo, maybe one last time next summer if Costa prove he isn't up to it fitness wise/form wise this season but from then on it will be much more like this summer, only new players coming in if we ship out our own.

[xdottenx 20]

Got this yesterday.

Is this an official biography? Is it good?

[Jase 43,479]

Is this an official biography? Is it good?

Nope. It's a collection of all his memorable quotes in one book.

[Term-X 7,891]

Salah for 5-10m or Schurrle for 20m, we are not really spending that much money on players.

Christian Atsu, Cristian Cuevas, Thorgan Hazard, Kenneth Omeruo, Mario Pasalic & Bertrand Traore all have a good chance at going for big money once they get a decent loan.

We'll get more Lukaku/De Bruyne scenarios in the coming seasons.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Christian Atsu, Cristian Cuevas, Thorgan Hazard, Kenneth Omeruo, Mario Pasalic & Bertrand Traore all have a good chance at going for big money once they get a decent loan.

We'll get more Lukaku/De Bruyne scenarios in the coming seasons.

Exactly. Atsu for example in a year or 2 will be min 10m imo, Hazard probably another 5m at least and bit and pieces actually make us a lot of money overall as long as we keep on spending reasonably( not 60m Di Maria, 20m loan Falcao with 40m more to pay later, Cavani 60m...etc). But more a long the line of Fab 30m, Sanchez 30m, Costa 32m, Benatia 25m...etc

[Hostedenis 556]

as long as we keep on spending reasonably( not 60m Di Maria, 20m loan Falcao with 40m more to pay later, Cavani 60m...etc).

You were the guy i remember most, screaming in every topic we had to go for Falcao's loan deal, that it was a good deal for a top class striker, that Chelsea needed two top strikers? And now all of a sudden you think the loan is unreasonably high spending? Talk about a 180...

[Namika 922]

Jose and Pep in Nyon earlier last week.