The Mourinho Thread

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

My point of view is that we do not yet have the squad to play beautifully all the time, and expect to be successful doing it. In my opinion, the squad does not contain enough depth of quality to make that possible.

With all due respect, that's just completely false.

[Special Juan 27,439]

The bus with Silvinho

His words are a thing of beauty

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

I didn't watch the match live because I had other important commitments, but now that I've watched it, I can see how some people will feel a certain way about the performance. The fresher team, with the better players won, there was nothing tactically brilliant about it. Zouma for instance looked hopelessly lost in midfield and I thought the football was appalling, not for the first or last time this season.

So despite the trophy, (which is a trophy we should EXPECT to win given our current squad), I can understand the bittersweet feeling some people might have. The style of football is not sustainable in the long run. It's as simple as that.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,898]

With all due respect, that's just completely false.

Thanks MrExcalibur100.

The beauty of this is that it's a straight binary proposition. Either there is enough quality in the squad to play as I described, or there is not. Either you are right or I am, there can be no grey area on this question. The problem is, how do we decide which is which? We both watch the team so we've both seen exactly the same evidence. The fact that we assess this evidence differently sounds like an honest disagreement to me.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I just can't believe the attitudes of some people. The criticism would be warranted had we lost, but we fucking won the cup. I'm still buzzing, absolutely delighted. No-one cares how you play in finals; people care if you win finals. We did. Be happy.

[Tautvix 1,321]

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MOURINHO AND WENGER!

JOSE STANDS UP AS A WINNER!

[Jase 43,479]

Chelsea 2 Tottenham 0: Jose Mourinho takes the Ho Chi Minh trail to Capital One Cup victory at Wembley

[Azpinator 2,325]

[Special Juan 27,439]

"It's my club"

[Azpinator 2,325]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6_C3X2B1s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBjEHFxyryo

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I couldn't understand from where is the obsessions of 'beauty football more important than the result' coming from?

Well I think I know, f*** you Guardiola

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6_C3X2B1s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBjEHFxyryo

Fantastic press conference, can't describe enough how good is to have this back.

I love Jose but the way how he approached the media, press conferences, everything was so dull this season and I'm the one who loves his personality very, very much. And one thing why I wanted to have him back is because he give me buzz before the game in a way that I watch the match with huge exitement. But this season in particular it was so boring, non-thrilling ... And he won a trophy and instantly he comes back to his best. Compare this video above with his press conference on Friday witch was so boring and meh. I see passion again in this man, the way he celebrated, the interview. It's fantastic. Let's see if he keep that up in the next press conference.

[Milan 17,859]

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Watching him in a good mood before, during and after the match. No way he will lose the match, he is very confident about it. And in here we're still fuming about Matic absent will lead us to doomsday.

[LondonsFinest 692]

People to fail undestand something. There is a reason why Wenger/ Pellegrini are tactically inferior to Mourinho. It is the way they approach games. Beatiful football is for when we play small teams(on paper). That is where you need beautiful football. Where you need to crush the opposition. Bigger teams, with tactically adept managers analyze weaknesses better and are able to exploit them. Hence Ivanovic and Cahill at the 5-3. Why Mourinho approaches games against bigger opponents cautioutisly: Because he very well knows that when teams like City, PSG, Liverpool when given the ability to attack a lot, they over commit. And by overcommiting they leave areas unprotected, and that is where Mourinho hurts them. We may have lost points at City, United, PSG, but fact is we had oner or two attacks, and we had a goal. We are deadly, clinical. And that is why approaching games differently is better, than going all out, over commiting and getting slaughtered, because Ivanovic's zone would have been a massacre, had we tried to attack constantly, yesterday.
All hail, Jose.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Chelsea 2 Tottenham 0: Jose Mourinho takes the Ho Chi Minh trail to Capital One Cup victory at Wembley

The methods of Jose Mourinho form a sizeable section of Alastair Campbell’s new book Winners: And How They Succeed and, during a talk at the Bath Literature Festival on Friday, he explained why politicians could learn so much from the Chelsea manager.

Specifically, he compared Mourinho to Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese leader from 1945 until his death in 1969, “because he is so pragmatic”. Campbell said: “Does Jose play the beautiful game? He can do but he doesn’t if he doesn’t have to. He just wants to win.”

hear, hear

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

I couldn't understand from where is the obsessions of 'beauty football more important than the result' coming from?

Well I think I know, f*** you Guardiola

LOOOL why people acting here like if this is exclusively to either play good or win ??

That was no classic performance, far from it. I'd run a rant here how pissed off I'm now to watch any big game Chelsea play, how coward approach is getting on my nerves, how I sometimes doesn't care if we will have a luck or not. I'm sorry but you can't say to me that we play good or anything. We relies on set-piece, luck, isolated situation from Hazard. Every big game is the same. The line which on we step is very thin. PSG game, woow 1:1 good away result, not to mention that if we were a bit more unluckier it'd have been 4:1 down. Yesterday we scored a goal from a completely isolated situation, set piece which lucky rebounds under JT leg 6 metres from goal. And even after he shot there is ricochet from Spurs player. The goal number 2 was again isolated situation with Spurs throw the ball into their own net. We relies hugely on luck, on isolated situation on defenders playing like snipers, on Cahill's flick, on Hazard moment of magic, on rebounds.

But! I don't care how we win this season as long as we win. I want us to wrap this title up in the league. 2 trophies would be fantastic return from this team. As I said I love Jose and I know it's not his team still. There's still over half of our players who weren't bought by him. The videos above keep me strongly in position that this fantastic manager is still there, the one who I fell in love long time ago. And he often wasn't usual self during his drought, which for him was eternity. And while I still don't enjoy us play this season in any sort of big game and don't fancy to change that until the next season, it's fantastic that we're winning the trophies while being far from finished team. Because Jose said that we're far from done, so I let him do his work in the summer to bring another 3 or 4 fantastic and importantly "his" players to this club. For sure I'll be pissed off in the way we play our next big game this season because I know we can much better but I know Jose so well to expect that if he doesn't have 100% confidence in his team (and he for sure doesn't) he will play as safe as possible, even cowardly (he himself calls this "strategic" each to his own I guess), which pisses me off to death but at the same time I know how genius of manager is there and I know he's team can play beauty and win at the same time. They're all kinds of beauty and personally I love deadly counter-attacking football and at the same time I love Guardiola-style football. I saw Jose teams many times and I saw them play beauty counter-attack at pace, where almost any transition was dangerous. What we play I can't call counter-attack, I'm sorry. We try but we're far from being good at this at the moment. But ok, Jose'll buy his players who won't ruin almost every counter instead the ones that will play forward with pace and precise. It will be epic soon. AND IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD TO WIN TROPHIES WHILE WAITING FOR THAT TIME TO ARRIVE

[BlueLyon 9,359]

In his first spell here, first trophy was carling cup. Second was PL title. Looks like the history repeats :blue scalf: