The Mourinho Thread

[Essien19 1,415]

6 minutes ago, Blue_Fox_ said:

Missed this man from the football scene so much! It just isn't the same without.

The big question is when not if the moaning 'how could we fire this man' will start. My guess is in 1-3 years we'll have a lot of new accounts in there and some Jose avatars.
He'll make them great again, but congrats, the behaviour towards this legend has been nothing but shocking, from the board to some online 'hools'.
Hungry, do you want a kiwi?!

Yes, he's one the biggest characters in football, but in today's game everyone is a manager, everyone knows best, current championship winning manager not only out of work but treated like a fraud,
utterly shambolic. But these belgians are holy, can't make this shit up.

[Pizy 18,368]

11 minutes ago, Essien19 said:

The big question is when not if the moaning 'how could we fire this man' will start. My guess is in 1-3 years we'll have a lot of new accounts in there and some Jose avatars.
He'll make them great again, but congrats, the behaviour towards this legend has been nothing but shocking, from the board to some online 'hools'.
Hungry, do you want a kiwi?!

Yes, he's one the biggest characters in football, but in today's game everyone is a manager, everyone knows best, current championship winning manager not only out of work but treated like a fraud,
utterly shambolic. But these belgians are holy, can't make this shit up.

The moaning has a great chance of starting before the next season even begins if we see Mourinho signing players like Zlatan or Higuain or Stones or Pogba and our board stick to their penny pinching ways by just recalling some loanees or signing cheap, average players.

I know I'd be moaning if that happens.

[Essien19 1,415]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

The moaning has a great chance of starting before the next season even begins if we see Mourinho signing players like Zlatan or Higuain or Stones or Pogba and our board stick to their penny pinching ways by just recalling some loanees or signing cheap, average players.

I know I'd be moaning if that happens.

Come on, be more creative Jose buys Lukaku and he's banging in them in for fun, Costa's out of form again. That would make this place unbearable, again.

Otherwise i agree with you, Jose will buy, the rats want trophies no matter what.
Can see Higuain going there and that would be bad.

[Blue_Fox_ 2,086]

6 minutes ago, Essien19 said:

The big question is when not if the moaning 'how could we fire this man' will start. My guess is in 1-3 years we'll have a lot of new accounts in there and some Jose avatars.
He'll make them great again, but congrats, the behaviour towards this legend has been nothing but shocking, from the board to some online 'hools'.
Hungry, do you want a kiwi?!

Yes, he's one the biggest characters in football, but in today's game everyone is a manager, everyone knows best, current championship winning manager not only out of work but treated like a fraud,
utterly shambolic. But these belgians are holy, can't make this shit up.

Some of the comments about him are really fun though  "Cheque book manager." or "At this level of football he amounts to nothing." between others.
United are in a worse shape than us the way i see it, they need a major rebuilding in every area of the pitch, will be interesting to see if he sticks to 4-2-3-1 or will finally snap out of it, who will want to buy, so on and so forth.

I expect a lot of the amateur managers on this board to suddenly disappear from this thread the moment he signs some major player, or maybe they will faintly moan "Cheque book manager." their faces green with envy.
Oh, and the major meltdown the moment he will win another league title or other trophy will be fun to witness.

[Essien19 1,415]

Just now, Blue_Fox_ said:

Some of the comments about him are really fun though  "Cheque book manager." or "At this level of football he amounts to nothing." between others.
United are in a worse shape than us the way i see it, they need a major rebuilding in every area of the pitch, will be interesting to see if he sticks to 4-2-3-1 or will finally snap out of it, who will want to buy, so on and so forth.

I expect a lot of the amateur managers on this board to suddenly disappear from this thread the moment he signs some major player, or maybe they will faintly moan "Cheque book manager." their faces green with envy.
Oh, and the major meltdown the moment he will win another league title or other trophy will be fun to witness.

 

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I don't think that's too bad. Is that worse than what we have? I'm not convinced, mhh.
They desperately need a new centre-back, dynamic midfielder and a very good right winger.
And extra for Jose, there will be a new striker. Nothing you can't be for about ~150 quid.

Apart from that, nicely put.
But most of them won't confess, we all have to deal with what's coming.
But great seeing Jose happy, deserves nothing less!

[Tomo 21,733]

So out of the original five piece that shaped our trophy laden 2004-2012 years (Jose, Cech, Terry, Lampard, Drogba) three have gone to rivals, smh what's wrong with them.

[Essien19 1,415]

1 minute ago, Tomo said:

So out of the original five piece that shaped our trophy laden 2004-2012 years (Jose, Cech, Terry, Lampard, Drogba) three have gone to rivals, smh what's wrong with them.

Jose was fired, what do you expect?
Cech had become superfluous because of younger blood and you have to respect his wishes,
the man has a family.
Lampard...no one knows what exactly happened, but City offered him the big bucks, can't really blame him for that.

[Blue_Fox_ 2,086]

4 minutes ago, Essien19 said:

 

I don't think that's too bad. Is that worse than what we have? I'm not convinced, mhh.
They desperately need a new centre-back, dynamic midfielder and a very good right winger.
And extra for Jose, there will be a new striker. Nothing you can't be for about ~150 quid.

Apart from that, nicely put.
But most of them won't confess, we all have to deal with what's coming.
But great seeing Jose happy, deserves nothing less!

I haven't watched United too often, but i've been surprised by Schneiderlin's ability to disappear from matches, Schweinsteiger has been an on and off, midfield-wise id' say they are about the same level as us and that's not flattering. I would say they have better players in defence than us, while we have a better attack, the difference between the two teams is not huge, but they could, just like us or worse, implode at any given moment. No doubt they'll be back in the top 4 next season with the right buys.

[Tomo 21,733]

1 minute ago, Essien19 said:

Jose was fired, what do you expect?
Cech had become superfluous because of younger blood and you have to respect his wishes,
the man has a family.
Lampard...no one knows what exactly happened, but City offered him the big bucks, can't really blame him for that.

Beckham was shafted by United but he never rocked up at Chelsea, Liverpool or City. When you create such a legacy at a club you should never join a rival in my opinion, if I played for Galatasaray never would I ever play for or manage Fenebache, I would rather hang up my boots, same way Simeone would never manage Real.

It hurts a lot seeing players/managers that created such a big legacy go to rivals without a second thought, the class of 92 at United would have never have done that no matter what, heck even Liverpool's spice boys of Fowler, Gerrard, Mcmannaman, Carragher didn't (all be it the second one was tempted but he still didn't), Raul was deemed surplus to requirements at Real in 2010 but he didn't go Leti or Barca.

It would have been one thing Essien, Carvalho, Malouda doing this, but for Cech, Lampard and Mou is horrendous.

[Essien19 1,415]

29 minutes ago, Blue_Fox_ said:

I haven't watched United too often, but i've been surprised by Schneiderlin's ability to disappear from matches, Schweinsteiger has been an on and off, midfield-wise id' say they are about the same level as us and that's not flattering. I would say they have better players in defence than us, while we have a better attack, the difference between the two teams is not huge, but they could, just like us or worse, implode at any given moment. No doubt they'll be back in the top 4 next season with the right buys.

I think some of the United players are seriously underperforming  because of Van Gaal. You're an Italien, no way Darmian is this poor, perhaps you have seen him play against the Yids recently. For Italy he's playing much better, the start of the season gave us an idea what Darmian is all about.
The same applies for Schneiderlin, whose ceiling is much higher, imo. Have you seen Lovren (also a former Saints player) play for Brendan and Klopp?
A complete different player, so i have hope for Schneiderlin, maybe we can get him before he's good again, mhh.
Honestly speaking i rate the United team higher, but i get where you're coming from, i can settle for that.

 

29 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Beckham was shafted by United but he never rocked up at Chelsea, Liverpool or City. When you create such a legacy at a club you should never join a rival in my opinion, if I played for Galatasaray never would I ever play for or manage Fenebache, I would rather hang up my boots, same way Simeone would never manage Real.

It hurts a lot seeing players/managers that created such a big legacy go to rivals without a second thought, the class of 92 at United would have never have done that no matter what, heck even Liverpool's spice boys of Fowler, Gerrard, Mcmannaman, Carragher didn't (all be it the second one was tempted but he still didn't), Raul was deemed surplus to requirements at Real in 2010 but he didn't go Leti or Barca.

It would have been one thing Essien, Carvalho, Malouda doing this, but for Cech, Lampard and Mou is horrendous.

I hear you!
But today's game is different, way more selfish and most of them want the best deal. You only live once. That's a general problem in the world.
I don't like when Lamps tried to hide what he's done, but when someone like Petr does it and says why, i can accept it.
Nevertheless it's not a nice thing to get used to.

[Last Sicarius 610]

It will be, 3 season in UTD, is second he will reach title, and in third he will fight in second half of table : D That would be funny.

[chelseafan26 293]

6 hours ago, Tomo said:

He was dreadful yesterday, no sugar coating that,  although I don't no what else to expect playing him in a double pivot vs City, and we signed him knowing his defensive limitations.

Howeveryou cannot ignore the creative side he brings to the table, he is an animal with even a cm of space, and hopefully, Conte can find ways to utilise that and hide his weaknesses.

We have not scored for 2 games and I can not remember a moment of "creativity". Yesterday his only "creative" moment was a 40 yard ball to costa which otamendi let bounce and either of costa/pedro should have scored. Except for that can you remember him completing simple passes? Just look at the way Kdb ran past him.

Do we really need such handicaps? Not for me.

[sir_volrath 61]

2 hours ago, Blue_Fox_ said:

Missed this man from the football scene so much! It just isn't the same without.

How can you miss someone so toxic?

[Blue_Fox_ 2,086]

6 minutes ago, sir_volrath said:

How can you miss someone so toxic?

I was born in Chernobyl.

[lucio 5,418]

3 hours ago, Essien19 said:

Welcome back Sir.
Hail to the king, baby!

Will be fun next season, against Jose and Pep, Conte better be up for it.

rip rashford

[Special Juan 27,429]

3 hours ago, Essien19 said:

Welcome back Sir.
Hail to the king, baby!

Will be fun next season, against Jose and Pep, Conte better be up for it.

More youngsters shoved out the door.

[lucio 5,418]

people will probably use martial, to say he plays youth.

[Essien19 1,415]

5 minutes ago, lucio said:

rip rashford

He introduced Morata, so i think Rashford will be fine. Maybe it's game over for Lingard, but the boy hasn't been great. Pereira could be a gem and loss, maybe.
I don't think Jose over the years has been that bad, read this article.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/13/jose-mourinho-trying-to-crush-the-belief-he-cannot-develop-young/