The Mourinho Thread

[bushman 2,043]

yeah potent is the keyword

I´d say, 10-12 goals for the remainder of this season & 4-6 in the CL. Bingo, one of the trophies goes to Stamford Bridge, thank you mamas & papas.

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Just gotta keep it up.Play like it every game as its the teams in the bottom half etc that can surprise us and have already this season

[Jase 43,479]

Mourinho on the Eto'o-Suarez penalty incident..

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/dec/29/jose-mourinho-chelsea-luis-suarez

"The player [suárez] is amazing and I love his quality, commitment and ambition to play," said Mourinho. "I know him from his time at Ajax. A very nice boy. He does everything to win, and Brendan [Rodgers] has done a very good job with him because he's changed. No doubt, he's changed. But when you are losing, the nature comes out of the player. The wild nature, the cultural nature of the player. Culturally, people from that area, they like it. Not just that area. There's a corner in Europe, where I belong too, where they like that too.

"One of the things we have good in this country is we don't like simulation. It's not good for our game. [César] Azpilicueta had the ball, he was leaving the box, and now Suárez is doing an acrobatic swimming pool jump to try and get the penalty because he's so clever he knows he's in the penalty area right in front of the Liverpool supporters. I hate players who try to provoke situations, and he tries too much to provoke these situations. Suárez lost that duel with Azpilicueta, Eto'o comes in and it looks like somebody shot him [suárez] in the back. Webb is 10 metres away and the only mistake he made was not giving him a yellow card."

Mourinho declined to indicate whether he had seen the incident again on television after the game, preferring instead to suggest bias in the punditry. "There are lots of people on television, but nobody is a Chelsea man: [Jamie] Carragher, Liverpool; [Mark] Lawrenson, Liverpool; [Phil] Thompson, Liverpool; [Alan] Hansen, Liverpool; [Jamie] Redknapp, Liverpool. We don't have one. When I retire, at 75, I'll go as a pundit and defend Chelsea on television."

[╫rue Blue 47]

Chelsea official just post this on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152152207572259&set=a.217015422258.132731.86037497258&type=1

nobody in here, want to ask ?

even the possibility is slim

but i hope you guys here, probably can give in depth or more excellent question for him ?

*sorry for horrible english

[Jase 43,479]

Gary Neville: Don't write Chelsea off, they've got Jose Mourinho

[Toli 977]

only negative in this game is Mata I think. I dont know, I kinda feel sorry for him. such a great lad and player but does not seem to fit in Mous plans. should have sold him in the summer already :/. I still hope that Mou kinda finds a place for him or he gets better defensively, but in truth I think he will leave us in the summer of 2014 ...

[MHL 47 378]

They named a load of Chelsea pundits but of course they are hardly ever on Tv or radio ...Media is dominated bt Manure Arse and Scum ex players

and camp followers

The only positive Chelsea one I can think of who gets a national voice is Pat Nevin, who is usually very fair and balanced. However his POV only gets across on an odd occasion. Andy Townsend he plays to his paymasters requests and isn't very positive (trying to be unbiased myself there). Craig Burley - he's as anti-Chelsea as they come (1994 cup final?), anyway he's a tosser.

All the people Jose named in his interview have weekly/daily media exposure i.e. Lawrenson, Hanson, Thompson, Jamie Redknapp, Gary Neville. I may have missed one or two. TV has massive Liverpool bias, Radio tends to be Spuds, Arse and the written press has Red written through them with the odd claret and blue splatter.

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Gary Neville: Don't write Chelsea off, they've got Jose Mourinho

Awww Gary talking sense again

[Mouri_Matic 560]

I´d say, 10-12 goals for the remainder of this season & 4-6 in the CL. Bingo, one of the trophies goes to Stamford Bridge, thank you mamas & papas.

12 goals is the minimum, Suarez scored 19 in 3 months

[The only place to be 11,313]

The TV pundits point is a little overplayed. Football exploded on TV in the mid-90s so the big-name recently retired stars were obviously going to come from successful clubs like Liverpool and United. We do okay with the likes of Butch, Hod and Nevin getting regular screen time, and then intermittently the likes of Ballack, Ruud and even Wisey get a look-in.

Can't include Burley cause the guy is an utter cunt.

Funnily enough one of the kindest voices to us recently has been Souness who has been talking up a resurgence in our fortunes. Neville talks a lot of sense too, although Carragher's dolphin squeals haven't quite hit the mark.

I think if you actually look at the people who were around in our growth during the 90s and 00s then you'll see a fair few went into management (Gullit, Wisey, Zola, Vialli) whilst a few others have got gigs on other shows (Ferrer and Minto do the Spanish footy, LeBouef works for ESPN, Desailly does stuff in France). Give it a couple of years and I think JT and Lamps could pop up on Sky, although I think they could be in the Beckham/Scholes camp of really not needing/wanting to.

Having said all that, how Owen, McManaman and Redknapp (I get he's somewhat good looking but he talks unbelievable amounts of shit) get consistent screen time is beyond me.

[MHL 47 378]

The TV pundits point is a little overplayed. Football exploded on TV in the mid-90s so the big-name recently retired stars were obviously going to come from successful clubs like Liverpool and United. We do okay with the likes of Butch, Hod and Nevin getting regular screen time, and then intermittently the likes of Ballack, Ruud and even Wisey get a look-in.

Can't include Burley cause the guy is an utter cunt.

Funnily enough one of the kindest voices to us recently has been Souness who has been talking up a resurgence in our fortunes. Neville talks a lot of sense too, although Carragher's dolphin squeals haven't quite hit the mark.

I think if you actually look at the people who were around in our growth during the 90s and 00s then you'll see a fair few went into management (Gullit, Wisey, Zola, Vialli) whilst a few others have got gigs on other shows (Ferrer and Minto do the Spanish footy, LeBouef works for ESPN, Desailly does stuff in France). Give it a couple of years and I think JT and Lamps could pop up on Sky, although I think they could be in the Beckham/Scholes camp of really not needing/wanting to.

Having said all that, how Owen, McManaman and Redknapp (I get he's somewhat good looking but he talks unbelievable amounts of shit) get consistent screen time is beyond me.

Regular and repeated voices was the point I think Jose was making with a view to getting balanced media opinions.

Hoddle, Butch, Uncle Albert all are bit part players, as is Gullit who is as pro-Chelsea as they come. We must have made an impression on him, despite what dear Ken did to him! Minto rarely has any opportunity on his Spanish football show to make any comment on us. Cundy lost his gig on Sky as soon as he started to display any inkling of a pro-Chelsea bias that the masses would find unpopular.

I'd agree that Neville is pretty fair as regards us. Squeaky boy Carragher just pisses me off looking at him never mind having to listen to his tripe. Redknapp is full of soundbytes, clichés and un-original thoughts.

[bushman 2,043]

12 goals is the minimum, Suarez scored 19 in 3 months

He was on drugs, then.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Regular and repeated voices was the point I think Jose was making with a view to getting balanced media opinions.

Hoddle, Butch, Uncle Albert all are bit part players, as is Gullit who is as pro-Chelsea as they come. We must have made an impression on him, despite what dear Ken did to him! Minto rarely has any opportunity on his Spanish football show to make any comment on us. Cundy lost his gig on Sky as soon as he started to display any inkling of a pro-Chelsea bias that the masses would find unpopular.

I'd agree that Neville is pretty fair as regards us. Squeaky boy Carragher just pisses me off looking at him never mind having to listen to his tripe. Redknapp is full of soundbytes, clichés and un-original thoughts.

TVs a funny old thing. You see how dire some of the analysts are when there are major tournaments and they bring in the likes of Klinnsmann, Seedorf, Ballack etc. How Shearer has made a career as a tv personality of all things is beyond me, and why Sky use people like Niall Quinn is equally perplexing.

Hansen is very much on his way out, Lawrenson seems to be marginalised and then you get some really random ones like Dion Dublin and Kevin Kilbane. Then there's the shit-stirrers like Savage and Keane. The only bright spot is that Garth Crooks is rarely on our screens anymore. But Jamie Redknapp....he can wear a suit well but beyond that I can't think of anything he brings to football matches.

In theory we should have more faces on the screen because that late-90s team was full of fashionable, tv-friendly, cosmopolitan guys but a lot are involved in other areas of the game (Gus was getting a lot of tv time but is obviously now tied-up in Sunderland). I think we'll see a few more Chelsea faces on screen in the next 5 years.

[robdog 2,084]

Regular and repeated voices was the point I think Jose was making with a view to getting balanced media opinions.

Hoddle, Butch, Uncle Albert all are bit part players, as is Gullit who is as pro-Chelsea as they come. We must have made an impression on him, despite what dear Ken did to him! Minto rarely has any opportunity on his Spanish football show to make any comment on us. Cundy lost his gig on Sky as soon as he started to display any inkling of a pro-Chelsea bias that the masses would find unpopular.

I'd agree that Neville is pretty fair as regards us. Squeaky boy Carragher just pisses me off looking at him never mind having to listen to his tripe. Redknapp is full of soundbytes, clichés and un-original thoughts.

Here in the States we have Graeme Le Saux, but he doesn't want to talk about CFC. He wants to come off as a Neutral. Burley still talks about his time on CFC on ESPN FC, but he also like to joke about the Blues back in the day.

[AndersonBLUE 819]

To be fair to Neville he aint too bad and is usually always fair. It's townsend and bias idiots who do the most of the commentary that annoys me. If we aren't playing like Barca, Chelsea is always shit and under performing according to them.

[Phil Driver 503]

Only two pundits get my respect ,Hoddle and Souness,both understand the game and speak without bias and whose views are worth listening to.

Shearer is perfect for the BBC and highlights,Mary Poppins is the perfect nickname for him off the pitch ,hard b@stard on it .

A lot of them are fearful of Mourinho and what he will achieve at Chelsea ,the good thing is Mourinho will not let any of them take the p1ss out of Chelsea and he will always be one step ahead of them,yesterday was a great example of that . Yellow card Suarez and Penalty Hazard clear ,next.

[Laylabelle 9,351]

To be fair to Neville he aint too bad and is usually always fair. It's townsend and bias idiots who do the most of the commentary that annoys me. If we aren't playing like Barca, Chelsea is always shit and under performing according to them.

Man U etc win 1-0 on a dodgy performance its a sign of champions.We do it then its the start of a crisis blah blah

Neville impressed me when he first started when he was saying about how Man U couldn't moan about not getting penalty decisions when they played so poorly that they couldn't win by doing it themselves..something like that.Bit oooo lalala

[Barbara 15,149]

look at how affectionately he hugs those guys and how they look happy with him there.

excuse me and my lame tearing up