The Mourinho Thread

[lionking 10]

Should have brought on Mikel to slow down the defeat. It wouldn't have been this embarassing

[Laylabelle 9,534]

City may have harder away game but we've been iffy away this month away.Sod them need to win our games n not ever repeat this performance

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

the level of the posts I read here in five minutes tells me I should keep away until my birthday next month

The Jorge Mendes comment being the worst....

It does contain a sliver of truth to it though, as much as I didn't want to say it, but it is what it is . That's the only thing that makes sense to me. Add that to the fact that he's done it before in the past. He clearly has his favourites, sometimes to the determent of the team.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

But complaining about our defense this season? Saying we should buy other players? Are you forgetting we only conceded 14 goals in 19 matches and had the best defense in the first half of the league. The defense just had a very poor game, end of. I'm glad the boys showed so much spirit and still went for point when the game was 4-1 or 5-2. Hazard in particular was magnificent. And we're still (joined) top of the league, with City having harder away games coming up.

To be fair, we've only conceded one less goal than United who are meant to have the worst defence in the league lmao.

[Liquidator 5,176]

I hear Neil Warnock is available

[LDN Blue 7,903]

City may have harder away game but we've been iffy away this month away.Sod them need to win our games n not ever repeat this performance

Yeah this ^. To be fair, City have surprised me quite a bit.. They haven't dropped as many points as they usually do, which means we haven't had to room to make mistakes that City themselves used to get away with.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

I hear Neil Warnock is available

It's not too late to get Pardew in, contracts are yet to be signed

[Barbara 15,149]

It does contain a sliver of truth to it though, as much as I didn't want to say it, but it is what it is . That's the only thing that makes sense to me. Add that to the fact that he's done it before in the past. He clearly has his favourites, sometimes to the determent of the team.

please, with all due respect to you, that's BS.

Sorry. Diego Costa has been one of our best players this season. I'm not saying Mourinho shouldn't use Remy more or something, but this Mendes convo is just BS and unnecessary conspiracy talking

He has the players he trusts, likes, protects, favorites, or whatever. It has fucking nothing to do with their agent. He wouldn't have won so many things if he was influenced by it

[Fernando 6,585]

To be fair, we've only conceded one less goal than United who are meant to have the worst defence in the league lmao.

I think today downfall had a lot to do with Matic not being his usual.

A sub-par Matic exposed our weak link in the defense.

Thus I'm glad this happen now in the January transfer window so to see if we can buy anything.

[Barbara 15,149]

I think today downfall had a lot to do with Matic not being his usual.

A sub-par Matic exposed our weak link in the defense.

absolutely

I called the Matic poor appearance somewhere in the middle of the first half, we were still winning 1x0

We have a poor defender on Cahill, that overachieved last season in a system that protected the heck out of him (his penalty today was ridiculous, the tackle horrible off timing), and Ivanovic has been terrible. I don't have complaints about Terry, but he IS slow. So if Matic - who's been really tired and needs to be rested asap - is having a day off, then it exposes our frail defense.

José should have Zouma play though. He may make the same mistakes as Cahill, but I think he wouldn't make as many.

José has been taking the first team thing farther than necessary because most of our substitutes are out of form, but Zouma ain't one of them.

[The Chels 2,502]

I think today downfall had a lot to do with Matic not being his usual.

A sub-par Matic exposed our weak link in the defense.

Thus I'm glad this happen now in the January transfer window so to see if we can buy anything.

When Matic performs poorly it means our defenders have to defend for themselves, which they are completely incapable of doing (except Azpi but even he got skimmed a few times).

[LDN Blue 7,903]

I think today downfall had a lot to do with Matic not being his usual.

A sub-par Matic exposed our weak link in the defense.

Thus I'm glad this happen now in the January transfer window so to see if we can buy anything.

Yeah. It's a problem I think we've known about for a while, the cover of when Matic isn't available. The job he does is quite tiring, so 3 games in a week will definitely take its toll on his body. I imagine that he'll be rested vs Watford, but there's enough talent that could be available on the market.