The Mourinho Thread

[CHOULO19 24,332]

^^

Phew! That was a close one!

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

The curse avoided then for Mourinho...

And unsurprisingly...

what Curse?

[CHOULO19 24,332]

what Curse?

The manager of the month curse, of course!

Here, read these:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/303647-barclays-premiership-awards-a-blessing-or-a-curse

http://www.twtd.co.uk/blogs/17053/[blog]-the-manager-of-the-month-curse--myth-or-reality/

[The Mak 4,459]

I don't remember your old posts except you giving him stick for not playing Mata, so I'm not sure what else I mixed. It's one thing to say you're going to do something and circumstances change - like it did with both Lukaku's and Kevin's situations - and you end up doing something else (something that happened with people around the world every second as we can't predict the future) and it's another completely different to lie about a fact widely known by too many people (every employee in Cobham, all players, people in France, etc) that already happened. How can Mourinho have lied about Eden missing training and get away with it?

Do you really think if he lied Hazard and his agent wouldn't deny the story? Or are you so deep in your theory that you think Mourinho blackmailed Hazard and his agent to deny the truth? Did you know the club's PR guy is in all those conferences and Chelsea is bigger than Mourinho and wouldn't allow something like you're suggesting to happen? I'm sorry for being so rude, but dude, this whole thing you're suggesting is a bit nuts... sorry for my reaction, but I'm actually shocked you're implying something like this could happen.

Eden Hazard missed a training session, there are more witnesses about it in Cobham than people posting in this forum. There's no way Mourinho would get away with a lie like that, and there's no way if he was lying that Eden and his team wouldn't defend him... please tell me you don't really think that's actually possible.

Just forget about it. You're just dealing with someone who refuses to admit he's wrong/contradicts himself, hence why it's getting more absurd.

You don't even want to know the exchange we had we he said "Oscar is best as CAM" and then minutes later suggested him as CM....

[The_Flash 1,144]

What's the manager of the month curse?

Jose said he dealt with Eden and that is the end of it. I think he wants to to be firm yet wants everyone to still like him. I think he is good at balancing that. He spoke warmly about Steve Clarke and is looking forward to playing WBA.

[Jase 43,479]

[HD3D 1,038]

11 mistakes? Strange, I counted 12. Removing our most lethal players and the ones with the most chances of punishing the opposition in order to take away any fear or hesitation that they would have to face, especially while attacking would count as a mistake in my book.

Actually, "removing our most lethal players and the ones with the most chances of punishing the opposition" is a line up mistake. So that would count as part of the 11 mistakes Mourinho said he made. Smartass.

[Heisenberg 1,824]

Cant believe he is back.Sometimes, many times I remember saying back in 2011 when we finished empty hands and Carlo sacked "The three wishes every CFC fan would like to happen is to win the CL, Lampard as the best scorer and José back' and it happened, a truly dream happened and i'm proud to always believed we could achieve those things.

[The_Flash 1,144]

It does feel sometimes like a dream, I watch him the press conference and can't believe he is back, it's wonderful. He is the Daddy of Chelsea.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

What's the manager of the month curse?

There's a myth in England in the PL and even Championship and League One, that the team whose manager wins the MOTM award goes on a bad streak after that.

So that's why Crespo was sold!

[The_Flash 1,144]

Hmm interesting

[Fernando 6,453]

Okay now I'm getting a bit worried.

We keep starting half ass the first half.

It's like we should not even watch the first half.

And then second half in trouble and have to go all gung go.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Mou if maybe you could teach the team to play attacking football that would be great. We are not gonna fucking play Bayern every week so why the fuck should we try counter attacking football all the time.

We have been shit against almost every team that set out to pack the bus this season

[Gilvorak 3,734]

Mou if maybe you could teach the team to play attacking football that would be great. We are not gonna fucking play Bayern every week so why the fuck should we try counter attacking football all the time.

We have been shit against almost every team that set out to pack the bus this season

We aren't playing counter attacking football our midfield and fullbacks are just shit this season.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

We aren't playing counter attacking football our midfield and fullbacks are just shit this season.

I think the team is just so used to defending now when we can actually go on all out attack they don't know how to. And agreed our shit fullbacks and mid didn't help either

[Barbara 15,149]

well this is the team that played Schalked midweek sans Mikel and Schürrle...

Hazard had a good assist (I won't comment on the penalty they robbed WBA with), so I won't say Eden was a detractor (although not a contributor apart from the assist either) and Lamps was decent. So why does the team play their socks in one match and just walk the park the next?

How much this is Mourinho's fault and how much those guys are playing like shit? I can't say.

I don't see a problem with our lineup today. I would have played Mata instead of Oscar from start, but if anything Oscar played better than Mata did imo, so that would have accounted for nothing.

I see more problem with the players having crappy moments (Ivanovic, midfielders (except Willian imo, who was decent), Cahill and today even Terry!) and I see them not being focused and determined enough.

Mourinho has to do something about it, but I don't think team selection is the problem here, neither is the system. I guess we have a collective brainfart. I don't want to give any credit to the november shit, but the change from the team that played ManCity and Arsenal to the last two EPL games is palpable. The players that were working, the system that was working two weeks ago, look like shit now.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Mourinho seems lost, played a big part on the result today...

[edetarod 2,155]

glad i'm not him right now