The Mourinho Thread

[Clockwork 1,794]

And as Henrique mentioned above, there seems to be a similarity with the transfer business too. We have made 2 signings so far - both decent, not great - and the ones we look to be doing fall into the same category as well. Saw 1-2 articles recently about Mourinho being concerned by our lack of progress in the transfer window. The situation does look a tad dodgy at the moment.

Agreed.

2 years left should let the season play out then make a more informed decision. You really never know how this team will respond next season, the motivation is much different when you are the champion then striving to the top.

I also say this Mou is the best underdog manager ever(in my lifetime anyway) but personally he is not one who deals with the title as "favorites" that well.

[Mechromancer 262]

"Mourinho maybe gonna want to leave this club." "Hazard and Courtois must feel uncomfortable."

Making up things in your own mind is delusion mate, not fear.

Yeah, sure. But isn't impossible. If Mourinho doesn't have a competitive team, in Europe, i mean, maybe he will leave the club. He doesn't have a big reason to stay here. Or maintain his position.

[The Chels 2,502]

My fear is: If Mourinho doesn't feel some type of ambition, he maybe gonna want leave this club. I mean, you need big names in order to compete in Europe, who is what Jose wants most. And obviously looks like the club isn't doing a great economic effort in comparison with other years. Granovskaia maybe has a rational vision, economically speaking, but if you sell some restrained plan of business, not only Mou, other players with big market like Hazard or Courtois must feel very uncomfortable. They need a competitive team in Europe.

If we don't improve the starting 11 then it's because Mourinho thinks it doesn't need improving, which he has certainly hinted at, even if many of us fans disagree.

When Mourinho wanted major reinforcements last summer the club duly obliged. I don't see why they would act differently now.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I always thought last season is his critical season. No title last season, and probably we're busy looking for a new manager at the moment.

In my opinion, I think he will survive another trophyless season if shit happened. Double trophyless season is another story.

[iseah100 5,612]

Lmao Mourinho DESTROYED Roberto Martinez.

[Miguelito 459]

Lmao Mourinho DESTROYED Roberto Martinez.

Link?

[iseah100 5,612]

Link?

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/99

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jose-mourinho-interview-chelsea-boss-6094235

An extensive interview of Mourinho. Spoke about our rivals, Terry, Falcao, Cech, Pogba and among other things.

[Barbara 15,149]

it is a good article.

Which is why i think we should wait until next season to give him a contract extension if he still deserves it.

He has shown how bad things could get in his third season, and never a good idea to give him a contract extension when his stock is at his peak. Second season always been Mou best with all his sides Chelsea, Inter, and Real Madrid.

you're kidding, right?

I seriously can't with the shallowness and lack of loyalty showed time after time. It's too much for me. Mourinho doesn't have to prove anything else on football and definitely not to Chelsea. Teams don't win every season, United, Barcelona, Madrid, Bayern - even when they were very dominant, didn't carry on winning for seasons in a row. The sport is highly competitive, winning is becoming more and more difficult. I think fans are just too spoiled and ungrateful and don't know the first thing about support. Which is why calling them fans instead of supporters seems fitting. They're fans of winning and signing some stars, not supporters of a club.

If the difficulties we had early in the 80's had happened now, this club wouldn't have a ground anymore and God knows if it would still exist because that kind of unconditional support and love is very rare to find these days. There are still many people who are like that, but they're an underwhelming minority that wouldn't be enough to do anything like that.

[stroey 2,525]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jose-mourinho-interview-chelsea-boss-6094235

An extensive interview of Mourinho. Spoke about our rivals, Terry, Falcao, Cech, Pogba and amongst other things.

We have only one chance to win,” he said, “And that is if we can be better with the same people.

“I think everybody has an interest in Pogba,” said the Portuguese. “But there are things you can do and things you cannot do - I love the Eiffel Tower, but I can’t have the Eiffel Tower in my garden."

“We feel we have the tools to improve our team without a player like that. And the tools are ourselves."

"So these three strikers for us: Falcao, Loic Remy and Diego Costa - we are very happy."

[TheIceMan 596]

If someone find his full Interview with SSNHQ from today in video format and post it here will be much appreciated!!! :tophat:

[xPetrCechx 13,573]

Jose Mourinho: "When I park the bus, I make sure to only use Yokohama Tyres!"

[Clockwork 1,794]

you're kidding, right?

I seriously can't with the shallowness and lack of loyalty showed time after time. It's too much for me. Mourinho doesn't have to prove anything else on football and definitely not to Chelsea. Teams don't win every season, United, Barcelona, Madrid, Bayern - even when they were very dominant, didn't carry on winning for seasons in a row. The sport is highly competitive, winning is becoming more and more difficult. I think fans are just too spoiled and ungrateful and don't know the first thing about support. Which is why calling them fans instead of supporters seems fitting. They're fans of winning and signing some stars, not supporters of a club.

If the difficulties we had early in the 80's had happened now, this club wouldn't have a ground anymore and God knows if it would still exist because that kind of unconditional support and love is very rare to find these days. There are still many people who are like that, but they're an underwhelming minority that wouldn't be enough to do anything like that.

No i am not kidding. Chelsea>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mou. Like everyone else at the club he has to earn his paycheck. It is no different for Mou or any other player. No reason to put the best interest of the club ahead of anyone.

it makes no logical sense to give him a contract extension now rather then next season, especially knowing his third season is often catastrophic season.

[1chelsea 864]

No i am not kidding. Chelsea>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mou. Like everyone else at the club he has to earn his paycheck. It is no different for Mou or any other player. No reason to put the best interest of the club ahead of anyone.

it makes no logical sense to give him a contract extension now rather then next season, especially knowing his third season is often catastrophic season.

Who gives a shit what you want, good or bad if the club feels they want to have a go it up to them. What logical to you that if he goes trophyless he should be fired because he usually have bad third season? Make it your opinion because to others it no sense waiting to see his failure or succeed before trusting him.

[iseah100 5,612]

No i am not kidding. Chelsea>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mou. Like everyone else at the club he has to earn his paycheck. It is no different for Mou or any other player. No reason to put the best interest of the club ahead of anyone.

it makes no logical sense to give him a contract extension now rather then next season, especially knowing his third season is often catastrophic season.

Lmao

[Pizy 18,952]

I think he has effectively ruled out any "big" signings and is sticking by what he said months ago about buying a few that will improve the squad as a whole and simply push the current XI to perform better and worry about their place in the team.

Doesn't appear well be making any direct first XI signings. May hurt us later in the season again or if we get key injuries but may also be hugely beneficial having a settled squad when everyone else will have half of their first XI's filled with new players.

Definitely think we may be in trouble if we advance far in the CL with this approach, though.

[Tomo 21,751]

No i am not kidding. Chelsea>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mou. Like everyone else at the club he has to earn his paycheck. It is no different for Mou or any other player. No reason to put the best interest of the club ahead of anyone.

it makes no logical sense to give him a contract extension now rather then next season, especially knowing his third season is often catastrophic season.

So far he has only had two '3rd season's'.

At Chelsea mark 1 it wasn't catastrophic, far from it, we won a domestic double, yes we lost out on the league to United, but we got 84 points (I think) that season which isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination, even more so when you factor in Terry and Cech were lost for half the season.

At Real they had an awful start but when they pulled their finger out they werebetter than Barca that season, unfortunately the damage was done but the performance level was still high.

Furthermore although this is technically his 3rd season back here I think it has more of a second season feel about it (especially if Stones, Witsel and Pedro come in), Mou pretty much wrote off the first season as far as winning the league was concerned and the real task/pressure started last summer.

[Essien19 1,415]

“We were champions without Frank."

Great interview, Mourinho is absolutely spot on. But i still believe that someone big is coming.

[Clockwork 1,794]

So far he has only had two '3rd season's'.

At Chelsea mark 1 it wasn't catastrophic, far from it, we won a domestic double, yes we lost out on the league to United, but we got 84 points (I think) that season which isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination, even more so when you factor in Terry and Cech were lost for half the season.

At Real they had an awful start but when they pulled their finger out they werebetter than Barca that season, unfortunately the damage was done but the performance level was still high.

Furthermore although this is technically his 3rd season back here I think it has more of a second season feel about it (especially if Stones, Witsel and Pedro come in), Mou pretty much wrote off the first season as far as winning the league was concerned and the real task/pressure started last summer.

In a way that kinda makes some of my point. You are right he did not stay beyond two seasons at Porto or Inter. So goes with my argument in a way, you really don't know what you are getting with him beyond his second season. Since he left both clubs after his second season.

Mate we both know things were a lot more toxic in his third season, yeah we won a double if you want to call it that. The football we played the first two season was not even comparable to his first two. But there was also a lot of turmoil in the locker room and a growing drift with Roman. It was quite clear that Mou does were outnumbered. When i say catastrophic it doesn't mean it only pertains to what happened on the pitch, his relationships were quite bad. In a sense he and Roman created environment where their partnership would no longer exist.

Real Madrid was much worse lol. He did not fight with the owner, he fought with almost every player and you would have a hard time naming many players he was in good term with at the end of his stint at Madrid. Fought with the media, and spouted conspiracy to a point it was just not funny.

Anyway as i said my point is it makes perfect sense to give him a contract extension next season, i personally don't believe it is a good idea to give Mou a contract extension when he has proven that his second season is the best it is ever going to get.

[Barbara 15,149]

No i am not kidding. Chelsea>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mou. Like everyone else at the club he has to earn his paycheck. It is no different for Mou or any other player. No reason to put the best interest of the club ahead of anyone.

it makes no logical sense to give him a contract extension now rather then next season, especially knowing his third season is often catastrophic season.

What does one thing have to do with other?

He proved he's capable of winning, so we support him because he's the manager, not because we want to change him for the next shiny toy - who I might ask who would be.

Before Guardiola a few years back, Mourinho has been the only one to win two UCL close to one another. He has 7 league titles under his belt in a fairly short career so far. So if he has a catastrophic season as it seems to be written in the stars he'll have, we just back him up and hope he does better the following one. Barcelona, Bayern, Madrid - all went through the same.

I never said Mou is the same as Chelsea or bigger, I just said he has nothing to prove, he's good at his job and I'd rather him to stay a long time even if I disagree with him on many occasions. So if he's one of the top managers of the world - which he is, whether people like you believe it or not, like it or not - then we should just settle and be prepared. No other team, let alone manager, has been winning it all for years in a row. It's very competitive and sometimes the best wins, sometimes they don't. There's a lot of good teams out there. So I'm not following the shit you're saying, but fact remains, some people just look for trophies. Well, guess what, they're not easily won.