The Mourinho Thread

[Jimmu 10]

They have all my respect if they refused to continously park the bus.

I remember us at home against West Brom last year, we played amazing football, they were awful, we were 2-0 up after half an hour and they get a red card. What happens next?

Go for the jugular, score another 4 and make a fiesta ?

Fukc no, parked the fn bus and it was game over, it ended 2-0.

[supporter 3,088]

'The Secret footballer'

The stupid journalists are increasingly more pathetic.

[xPetrCechx 13,577]

Revealed: Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo 'almost came to blows' at Real Madrid

With 10 minutes remaining, the coach very pointedly told Cristiano Ronaldo to track back. He also reprimanded him for hurriedly taking a throw-in that Mesut Özil was unable to control, allowing Valencia to break and provide the final fright of the match.

Mourinho, whose blood was no longer boiling by the time he reached the dressing room, reminded Cristiano of the reason for the instruction on the pitch: “If they get a goal against us…”

[Pizy 18,963]

The express using 'The Secret footballer' as a source says it all really.

Right up there with "FootballAgentITK" with transfer news I would imagine.

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

FA Give Mourinho Stadium Ban & £40,000 Fine! Agenda? (RANT)

100PercentChelsea

YOUNESSHH gives his views.

[Jase 43,479]

There is what the fans think is right ^^, how they define merit, and there is what every manager does.

I don't think the term 'merit' is very subjective here. Players are judged based on their form and performances on the pitch and if you are playing well, you deserve to start. If not, you don't. It's not rocket science.

At some point we ought to ask ourselves "do they know something we don't?" Which might explain why they get paid (a lot of money) to do all these "wrong" things. Without going into the myriad of details, they do watch these players, on and off the pitch in a daily basis, as opposed to any given Sunday.

If we're going to use that point in every debate, then we might as well not discuss anything at all since that's like an excuse for saying we don't know anything about football. Hence, we shouldn't talk about it because we aren't coaches etc. Even managers are humans and just like any human, they make mistakes, can be stubborn etc. I don't see how one can defend Mourinho for his continuous selection of Ivanovic (for instance) all season (until he got injured) really. His defending hasn't been anywhere good enough and he has cost us so many goals and yet, Mourinho's logic for playing him is because he is tall and that. Any other player who does that and we won't see them again for weeks/months.

If I had a dollar for every time a've head " _{can't possibly do any worse than [starter]..."}

_{It may sound like a superficial thing to say but it's all about weighing the options and see who can at least do a decent job. Besides, it's extremely non-progressive to see Mourinho play a RB at LB and CB at RB all the time.}

_{He has been tweaking and nothing has worked. Because the subs are worse than the starters, or at least at the same level (when in poor form). Some of these subs are playing at their limit whereas we know the starters can do better - as they've done before. So, naturally, the manager is trying to recover the form of the sure bets as opposed to bet on an unknown. I don't necessarily agree with everything Jose does, but I also don't find it as crazy or as prone to critique as most around here do.}

_{He has tried to tweak things here and there and that I don't disagree but perhaps the problem here isn't that. Maybe it's more of a psychological or confidence issue. And it's not betting on an unknown but giving the players belief, putting faith in some of the others (getting them to put 110% effort can go a long way to compensate for a lack of quality). Man-management. Don't think Mourinho has really excelled in that, especially in this crisis. He seems more concerned about picking fights with everyone - people within the club, referees, journalists, managers etc.}

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

Absolutely fascinating analysis from Carra, frank and Gary, they are so good at this.

Especially when it comes to Mikel and Ramires holding back so far to the point where they are hurting the defence rather than helping.

[Johnnyeye 7,511]

lack of character in this team, no leaders on the pitch besides John Terry.

[Johnnyeye 7,511]

Mourinho banned and fined by the FA, no surprise there.

[Jase 43,479]

lack of character in this team, no leaders on the pitch besides John Terry.

Is Terry even doing his job as a leader these days?

[Johnnyeye 7,511]

Is Terry even doing his job as a leader these days?

There is not much he can do these days to be honest, i won´t blame him ... before we had the likes of Drogba, Lampard, Terry, Makelele, etc many leaders on the pitch who could motivate the team when needed, but tell who can do that now in this current lot?

[Johnnyeye 7,511]

[Soofi 32]

Ancelotti: "Me at Chelsea? That's just talk. Mourinho has difficulty, it is true, but Chelsea has confirmed Mourinho 15 days ago and I think he did very well: Chelsea have the perfect coach to solve problems. "

[Last Sicarius 610]

We just need to rebuild our core in team. We lost many legends(for example Cech and Drogba), so we need to replace them or change our mentality.

[Last Sicarius 610]

Ancelotti: "Me at Chelsea? That's just talk. Mourinho has difficulty, it is true, but Chelsea has confirmed Mourinho 15 days ago and I think he did very well: Chelsea have the perfect coach to solve problems. "

:/ Carlo...

[Jase 43,479]

There is not much he can do these days to be honest, i won´t blame him ... before we had the likes of Drogba, Lampard, Terry, Makelele, etc many leaders on the pitch who could motivate the team when needed, but tell who can do that now in this current lot?

If you are a leader, you should be able to speak, to lead, to galvanize your teammates. You don't need others to be able to do that. Even Terry has looked so disinterested this season.

[DYC. 7,542]

This sort of stuff is women's gossip magazine level.

I can see it now:

'Cesc speaks out: Jose wanted me to play bad football. Peter Andre shows his support.'

It's terrible. They can 'release' all kinds of stories now. I'm waiting for the Mourinho caught Hazard, wearing a bunny outfit, and his daughter covered in strawberry syrup, and Mourinho went through Oscar's phone and found disturbing pictures of Oscar, his wife and his sister involving wet celery, a flying helmet and an egg whisk stories.

I'm sure Chelsea will be responsible for a substantial amount of the earnings of the papers the coming weeks. Keep em coming.

[Soofi 32]

his daughter covered in strawberry syrup

lmao

[Johnnyeye 7,511]

If you are a leader, you should be able to speak, to lead, to galvanize your teammates. You don't need others to be able to do that. Even Terry has looked so disinterested this season.

like i said before, "no one" in this lot seems capable to do that, forget Terry, he´s done so much already for this club, so i won´t blame him.

[robsblubot 3,595]

I don't think the term 'merit' is very subjective here. Players are judged based on their form and performances on the pitch and if you are playing well, you deserve to start. If not, you don't. It's not rocket science.

If we're going to use that point in every debate, then we might as well not discuss anything at all since that's like an excuse for saying we don't know anything about football. Hence, we shouldn't talk about it because we aren't coaches etc. Even managers are humans and just like any human, they make mistakes, can be stubborn etc. I don't see how one can defend Mourinho for his continuous selection of Ivanovic (for instance) all season (until he got injured) really. His defending hasn't been anywhere good enough and he has cost us so many goals and yet, Mourinho's logic for playing him is because he is tall and that. Any other player who does that and we won't see them again for weeks/months.

It may sound like a superficial thing to say but it's all about weighing the options and see who can at least do a decent job. Besides, it's extremely non-progressive to see Mourinho play a RB at LB and CB at RB all the time.

He has tried to tweak things here and there and that I don't disagree but perhaps the problem here isn't that. Maybe it's more of a psychological or confidence issue. And it's not betting on an unknown but giving the players belief, putting faith in some of the others (getting them to put 110% effort can go a long way to compensate for a lack of quality). Man-management. Don't think Mourinho has really excelled in that, especially in this crisis. He seems more concerned about picking fights with everyone - people within the club, referees, journalists, managers etc.

Yes Jose brought a lot of it on his own no doubt. That's the manager he's been though Diego Costa manager version.

On the other points I'd call personal preferences and yes I do disagree as I believe merit is very subjective. Especially because we don't hear the instructions/aka requirements.

My point isn't that we are not supposed to disagree with him, but calling him crazy, quack, or stupid is ... Crazy and I never liked him as a manager .

We also do t know the restrictions he's been under. Perhaps he's not the one pushing for a smaller squad for ex.