The Mourinho Thread

[Jase 43,479]

Actually that is not a surprise, I knew from the moment we signed him that it would be this way. But I didn't realize it would be so extreme. Having said everything, I still love Jose and I don't want him ever to leave. I am willing to accept his quirks and methods because for me he's proper blue. I just wish if he's serious about staying long term, that he would run the team in a way that reflects that more. At the moment it feels more like he's at another club in a quest for quick success and it doesn't matter what comes after. I accept that, as long as it's a short term vision by him to get a monkey off his back. Even if it continues like that next season, I won't call for his head to be chopped off, but I will continue expressing my opinion and if that means criticizing, then so be it.

It's fine to criticize, I welcome such in depth discussions, but one thing that absolutely cannot happen is letting Jose go. It shouldn't enter anybody's mind, not so soon at least.

That's the problem really. We all knew beforehand about Mourinho and his untouchables but he's been incredibly stubborn with his team selection. Before the season started, he already formed pre-conceived notion on the players and he's not willing to change, especially on those who are not in the starting XI.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Nah mate, they were probably that shit in the first place

I know that some people like to explain to themselfs that Schurrle, Salah, KdB, now Cuadrado were basically that shit when they first joined. The question is why those scouts who recommended them didn't get fired already (or maybe it isn't their fault ?).

Buying Kdb, schurrle, salah was very profitable for us.

But we have to ask ourselves, are we buying players for resale or to actualy improve our team and them.

IMO right now club and manager are like we buy them, if they perform fine, if not we sell them for more.

While this is efficient to get money, we should put more trust, care and work to players we buy and the results will be better.

Wenger managed to do great job on Cockqelin and Bellerin, sad we cant do shit even with someone like Filipe Luir or Cuadrado, and I think Mou will never be able to bring out the best of them.

[supporter 3,088]

Hello everyone!

Cholo Simeone close to renew his contract until 2020 with Atletico de Madrid, according to his sister, who also is his representative.

It is a very good news for us because I do not want to see Simeone with Manchester City or United, neither with PSG.

Atletico is a great club, personally is my favorite club in Spain, but maybe they do not have the economic capacity to be a truly great team in Europe. Real Madrid and Barcelona have all the economic power in Spain, with two cities (Madrid and Barcelona) supporting them in almost everything.

For example, in the contract for the rights of television, Real Madrid and Barcelona earn 140 million euros each year, and, although they're trying to change that despite the refusal of the Spanish government, Atletico Madrid wins 38 million euros each year . An illogical difference.

Although it is also true that an important Chinese businessman recently bought a part of Atletico de Madrid and Spain is said that this type is of Chinese entrepreneurs with more money comes Chica and he has done a great investment in Atletico de Madrid. But so far are just rumors, because he still has not been presented in Spain.

In any case, it would be good news for us that Simeone stay in the league instead of coming to Premier League.

Although having confrontation between Jose and Simeone each year would be exciting.

Regards to ALL.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

That's the problem really. We all knew beforehand about Mourinho and his untouchables but he's been incredibly stubborn with his team selection. Before the season started, he already formed pre-conceived notion on the players and he's not willing to change, especially on those who are not in the starting XI.

Tbf he probably had Zouma down as another Salah too before he came in and impressed. Other than that yh not much unexpected changes have been made, maybe some people were expecting Ivan to be dropped/move to CB once Felipe signed but it looks like that is not going to happen now.

Overall I think this season that is acceptable because he has to win the title to relive some pressure on himself. But from next season I am sure lot of other Blue fans also want to see him introduce MORE youngsters into the team to at least show he cares about the future and not just his personal glory in the short term.

[Jase 43,479]

Tbf he probably had Zouma down as another Salah too before he came in and impressed. Other than that yh not much unexpected changes have been made, maybe some people were expecting Ivan to be dropped/move to CB once Felipe signed but it looks like that is not going to happen now.

The issue is, Mourinho didn't have same level of trust on all the players to begin with. There are some he trusts and some he doesn't. Some players can play badly and make mistakes but won't ever get dropped (with the exception of Cahill but even then, it took Mourinho until a 5-3 defeat to drop him). Others, the minute they play badly and/or make a mistake, we won't see him again until 4-5 games later or last 5-10 minutes of some random matches. Because of this, there has been a lack of competition and rotation in the squad and we are paying the price of players suffering from fatigue in 2015.

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

A mate of mine was saying look at those Man City players crowding round the ref (Nasri should have been sent off) i bet the media won't say anything. But in truth with regards to the P.S.G. game you get the feeling that the crowding round the ref was preordained by Mourinho in the dressing room. I'm new to this forum and have to say i'm not a Mourinho fan his histrionics are tiresome and i wish he could make us more of an attacking force. There is no excuse for having all that talent at your disposal and yet making us an awful team to watch.

[Tomo 21,751]

Tbf he probably had Zouma down as another Salah too before he came in and impressed. Other than that yh not much unexpected changes have been made, maybe some people were expecting Ivan to be dropped/move to CB once Felipe signed but it looks like that is not going to happen now.

Overall I think this season that is acceptable because he has to win the title to relive some pressure on himself. But from next season I am sure lot of other Blue fans also want to see him introduce MORE youngsters into the team to at least show he cares about the future and not just his personal glory in the short term.

Zoumas a case In point, he took the limited chances he got and impressed enough to turn them into regular games. At the start of the season every single member of our squad bar Mark Schwarzer knew they were going to get a chance in some capacity and it's up to them to make use of it.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

If you look the league table again and again, 6 points gap from the 2nd place with a game in hand and 9/10 games remaining actually quite pretty if you think about it

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

If you look the league table again and again, 6 points gap from the 2nd place with a game in hand and 9/10 games remaining actually quite pretty if you think about it

Could still do a MU/Liverpool and bottle it

Zoumas a case In point, he took the limited chances he got and impressed enough to turn them into regular games. At the start of the season every single member of our squad bar Mark Schwarzer knew they were going to get a chance in some capacity and it's up to them to make use of it.

Yeah I guess but it hasn't always been equal though. For example a defender will much more likely get a chance to impress than an attacker. For example Zouma came on for 10 mins or something and we kept a cleansheet=>he did well. While someone like Cuadrado/Salah comes on for 10 mins and they are expected to score/assist in that amount of time to be considered a success in that match.

[Laylabelle 9,539]

Think find it pretty when impossible to be caught up.So unpredictable this season still bit eeeek....dont bloody dare do it...soon as we can keep a lead 2 or so games in a row feel more confident

[Laugh1ngMan 393]

If you look the league table again and again, 6 points gap from the 2nd place with a game in hand and 9/10 games remaining actually quite pretty if you think about it

I remember people saying the same thing when we had an 8 point lead going into december. It can vanish very quickly, and every point lost is gonna be costly, make no mistake about that. With some big games coming up where we will drop points we have very little room for error.

The one thing i don't want us to do is win the title by default with 84 points or something simply because all the rest were shit. It would be a shame after such a good start and a little blemish on our title at the same time

[blu35_army 551]

for Mou it's about thropy right now. hope he more flexible to academy next season if only we get PL...

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I remember people saying the same thing when we had an 8 point lead going into december. It can vanish very quickly, and every point lost is gonna be costly, make no mistake about that. With some big games coming up where we will drop points we have very little room for error.

The one thing i don't want us to do is win the title by default with 84 points or something simply because all the rest were shit. It would be a shame after such a good start and a little blemish on our title at the same time

Now that is December, I agree 8 points at that time was nothing, but hey, now it is near the end of March. Also City's form currently much worse than ever. Of course anything can still happen, and I agree we must not getting carried away. But we're almost there now.

[The Skipper 20,609]

I remember people saying the same thing when we had an 8 point lead going into december. It can vanish very quickly, and every point lost is gonna be costly, make no mistake about that. With some big games coming up where we will drop points we have very little room for error.

The one thing i don't want us to do is win the title by default with 84 points or something simply because all the rest were shit. It would be a shame after such a good start and a little blemish on our title at the same time

City had a very easy run in at the time, we didn't. Now they don't, it's very different.

[OhForAGreavsie 6,089]

I remember people saying the same thing when we had an 8 point lead going into december. It can vanish very quickly, and every point lost is gonna be costly, make no mistake about that. With some big games coming up where we will drop points we have very little room for error.

The one thing i don't want us to do is win the title by default with 84 points or something simply because all the rest were shit. It would be a shame after such a good start and a little blemish on our title at the same time

I understand what you're saying but I would definitely settle for being the best of a not especially brilliant bunch, not least because I don't think we are brilliant. Come what may I'd like us to make a big effort to improve the squad in the summer. If we can do that from a position of strength as champions, even champions that only just limped over the line, it would be great.

[Fernando 6,589]

Mourinho said this:

"I think we are getting great credibility with players we sell because we sell good players. Let's see what happens."

As much as it sucks to see players we sell do good, that's one thing you have to look at the positive.

That we are selling good players not crappy.

We did that a couple of seasons ago to Hamburg and that was a horrible buy for that club.

If teams see that players we sell tend to do good they more then likely will take a chance to buy from us.

So that's the positive aspect of this.

[killer1257 3,282]

Mourinho said this:

"I think we are getting great credibility with players we sell because we sell good players. Let's see what happens."

As much as it sucks to see players we sell do good, that's one thing you have to look at the positive.

That we are selling good players not crappy.

We did that a couple of seasons ago to Hamburg and that was a horrible buy for that club.

If teams see that players we sell tend to do good they more then likely will take a change to buy from us.

So that's the positive aspect of this.

I just hope that someone is really stupid enough to buy Oscar for a big fee.

[zolayes 14,489]

Mourinho said this:

"I think we are getting great credibility with players we sell because we sell good players. Let's see what happens."

As much as it sucks to see players we sell do good, that's one thing you have to look at the positive.

That we are selling good players not crappy.

We did that a couple of seasons ago to Hamburg and that was a horrible buy for that club.

If teams see that players we sell tend to do good they more then likely will take a change to buy from us.

So that's the positive aspect of this.

yes that should make it easier to sell Eden and Courtois

[DYC. 7,542]

I remember people saying the same thing when we had an 8 point lead going into december. It can vanish very quickly, and every point lost is gonna be costly, make no mistake about that. With some big games coming up where we will drop points we have very little room for error.

The one thing i don't want us to do is win the title by default with 84 points or something simply because all the rest were shit. It would be a shame after such a good start and a little blemish on our title at the same time

I'd gladly take that tbh. The last impressive champions were Utd in 2011, so it would be nothing new. And it has been five years since the last title, that's too long.

Just win the league and build on that.

[Laugh1ngMan 393]

I'd gladly take that tbh. The last impressive champions were Utd in 2011, so it would be nothing new. And it has been five years since the last title, that's too long.

Just win the league and build on that.

Offcourse i'll take it as well, but it shouldn't happen but if we loose points were we shouldn't this seasons ending could get very scrappy and i wouldn't like seeing it happen