The Mourinho Thread

[The_Flash 1,144]

That is an absolute joke, did the mirror write that load of rubbish. Absolute nonsense. Then picking out random ex hell sea pluses who are rarely on tv is just silly. It is the Liverpool ones that we have one ire commentating on most games and now particularly having to listen to redknapp and carragher.

[Phil Driver 503]

Victims again ,I dont think so !!! And what about the Suarez push on Ramires for their goal last season at Stamford Bridge and the disgraceful bite on Ivanovich that was the act of an animal and Suarez even then pretended to be injured and was not sent off ,before scoring the equaliser after the added on time had elapsed.

It is in their DNA ,one posters avitar on here sums them up perfectly - Liverpool FC Ashamed of nothing - Offended by Everything .

[Laylabelle 9,539]

Its got a bit boring now..Jose said this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.Aint like he's the first one to say it.Grow up and move on.Hope that letter is from someone at the mirror cause someone has way to much time on their hands if not

[The_Flash 1,144]

It's remind me of Celtic here they are always cheated never defeated. Whoever wrote that rubbish, what a. ***

[Tomo 21,751]

It really is underestimated the part Jose will play in the title race if we are still in touch late on. People seem to look at City's squad and assume they will run away with it, they didn't run away with it in the last two season's and given they still have all the top sides bar us to play away, i can't see them walking it this time either.

People made the same mistake with us in 08/09, looked at our squad and said yeah on paper it's the best squad so Chelsea will walk the league, but United had Ferguson and we had a manager with no experience in a European league, that factor plays a big part.

We have got a serial winner, while look at who our opposition have got.

City have Pellegrini, now don't get me wrong, i think he is a good coach and i rate him very highly, the work he did at Villareal deified logic, but can he hold his nerve in the business end? can he got to Anfield and get the draw City need? time will tell.

Arsenal have Wenger, was a winner, but his teams have bottled any chance of the title for years now, that will be a factor.

Liverpool have Rodgers, who in my opinion is similar to Ranieri, good at building a side and getting them playing good football, but can he drag his teams through the finish line? Same with Martinez in Everton.

United have Moyes, well, yeah, no explanation needed. But they do have players that won't lose the winning mentality from Fergie overnight, so if United can quietly creep up, they might have a say in the race yet inspite of Moyes.

Inter under Jose and Roma under Ranieri had a tight title battle in 09/10, but did any one have any doubt that it would be Jose's Inter coming out on top? even when Roma leapfrogged them for a week, all the sensible money was still on Inter.

Im not saying we will defiantly win it but If we can keep right up in this race, we will feel a lot more confident with our manager than our rivals will with their's, that is for sure.

[The_Flash 1,144]

They used to say Fergie gave Utd more points I think Jose does that for us, he gives us belief and as JT said we have our identity back, we have the special one back and we can be special

[CHOULO19 24,332]

The tone will change if we drop points Weds?Whatever day of the week we play or the next time we do,Up down etc

Yeah, I'm still waiting for the first "Mourinho Out!" thread. Took longer than usual this time around

[Barbara 15,149]

@Tomo, Mourinho already is the only reason why we are where we are. Why do I say the only and not the main? Most of our signings this summer aren't playing often. Sometimes it's Schurrle, sometimes it's Willian. Marco and Kevin are off, and Eto'o's goals and contributions aren't that significant which means Mourinho has been working mainly with the players that were already here for a season or two and where were we last season and the one before it at the end of the calendar year? My point exactly.

While we didn't have exceptional players at some points and we've been facing the same deficiencies in our squad for a few years now, still Mourinho made the difference basically with the guys that were already here. One could argue - and it's a very valid point - that Oscar and Hazard are fully adapted now whereas they weren't last season. But let's not forget how amazingly Eden played for us until the United match. We won matches early last season because of him and still we were 11 points or something behind the leader at the end of 2012. So we had a killing Hazard early the season that won us matches and still we were out of the title race as soon as December ended.

Of course I'm not dismissing the players' role in our current position, they're the ones who win matches and lose them, but we all know what a difference a manager can make and I think in our case Mourinho does it because not only we're tactically miles better than we've been in years, but also he's recovered Terry, he's improved Oscar, Hazard, Cahill andTorres a lot (and it has nothing to do with adaptation in the new guys' case). We have a confident Lampard, a better Ramires and I think Schürrle also benefited from Mourinho even if I can't say much from his Leverkusen days. I can talk about Schürrle based on what I saw in pre-season and early this season and then I compare it to the player he was from October on. It even affected his national team performance imo (have been following Germany closely the past couple of years). So it's not only the tactic system we have - which is very efficient and entertaining imo, but also how he works individually with those players and he just improves them. Hazard had absolutely nothing on his defensive game that was worth mentioning. He's one of our best pressing players nowadays, he tracks back effectively and not only to add a number in the lines in our half.

So I credit Mourinho more than anyone in our position 2 points behind an Arsenal side that has the same manager and the same players (sans Ozil, but he only adds to the mix) brewing for years now and who are now florishing. We're one point behind a Manchester City side that has an incredible attack force and by far the best pivot in England (if not in Europe) managed by an experienced, attack minded guy. I'm not saying we're inferior to Arsenal or City squad wise because I think we're superior the former and as good as the latter. The thing is we have deficiencies in critical areas (pivot and attack) that they don't have. Their squads aren't as deep as ours, but we're only deep in defense and attacking midfield. We don't even have first team material strikers and we have literally a half-decent pivot. Our pivot players don't compliment and complement each other, which is why we're so terrible there. Still we've been working around those two critical weaknesses and some defense blips and we've been just there with those guys from the start. I'm thankful Mourinho is here, words can't say how much.

[zolayes 14,489]

Dear Jose: A Liverpool fan's open letter to Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho after Luis Suarez 'diver' attack

http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/chelsea%20fc#ixzz2oztwzpKF

:D

I didnt realise how good Macafee was ,,,it blocked me from reading that link .....

[robdog 2,084]

Schürrle also benefited from Mourinho even if I can't say much from his Leverkusen days. I can talk about Schürrle based on what I saw in pre-season and early this season and then I compare it to the player he was from October on. It even affected his national team performance imo (have been following Germany closely the past couple of years).

Just to support your argument here about Zie German, Well Jogi Löw has already said that Schürrle has improved in his time w/ Chelsea. The reason has to be the influence of The Special One. Look @ Eto'o. He hated Chelsea, but when he saw Jose was returning Eto'o knew he could get in on a last chance of Glory. However if he makes more silly plays like he did in the 2nd half of the l'puke match, he can rot on the bench. No reason to put Webb in that place to make that decision. Jose has the lads dialed in & the rest of the league needs to beware.

[Fernando 6,590]

excuse me the double post, but this deserves a post of its own.

This man is a legend in this club, but most of all, he's indeed one of us.

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When I first read these sentences by him I expected him to have said them laughing, joking. But look at his face... he's dead serious.

here's the vid: http://yvett.es/post/71624536131/when-i-retire-in-75-years-old-i-go-to-be-a

See if for one moment he's laughing. He isn't. I mean, ofc he's not serious about becoming a pundit, but he's serious about how those guys are biased and we'll never defend Chelsea or even talk positively about us.

ONE OF US!!!!

[The_Flash 1,144]

I love all those gifs, and I love Jose

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

Need I say something? Those subs

We're starting to hit our stride, and it's looking good.

[Special Juan 28,187]

Double subs changed the game, he has balls Jose, he doesn't mess about.

[Peppen 934]

Class act, Jose.

[The Skipper 20,609]

Hats off to Jose for seeing that Mata out wide wasn't working at all especially against Shaw and Lallana. Great subs that won us the game (especially Oscar, dude was in inspired form, he plays like that and he's our undisputed number 10 by far).

I thought our best 11 (give or take Lampard and Luiz) played today when he threw on Oscar and Willian. I'm also now beginning to see patterns in our forward play, triangles and squares, good link up play... That first half vs. Liverpool and the game today against Southampton (where we could've scored so much more, could've easily been 4/5-0 if Torres had his shooting boots) were the best I've seen us play in a long, long time.

Glad to finally be seeing some progression, it's all I want from this season - for the foundation of the team to start taking shape, for us to start creating an identity. I don't really care much if we win trophies or not.

[Laylabelle 9,539]

Made the right call!Love it

[Phil Driver 503]

All those who doubted Mourinho hang your heads in shame ,this fella is special ,enjoy the ride and well done to the home crowd for insisting on his return.

[The_Flash 1,144]

That sounded very honest about Oscar, although so many teams would have got the penalty.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Better late than never. Everything is falling into place. A good transfer window and we are well on our way for the title.

Hats off, Jose