The Mourinho Thread

[kellzfresh 7,229]

I hope they would react strongly on the pitch

Mourinho said something similar about benzema in madrid. Higuain got injured and benzema was mis-firing. After that benzema became on fire and kicked on.

Let's hope torres has strong mentality even if its a size of a peanut

[The Chels 2,502]

A notion that is true and probably also want to get a reaction from Eto'o, Torres and Ba. Need them to perform and score as much as possible if we are to achieve our targets in this run-in.

I don't think this was a case of mind games/a 'trying to motivate the players' talk because it was said during an informal, behind-the-scenes type of frank conversation rather than anything pre-planned to feed the media.

But I wonder - no Cavani, no Falcao, no Rooney. Then who? Benzema (with Suarez going to Madrid)? Diego Costa? Balotelli? Jackson Martinez?

All signs pointing to Diego Costa, I reckon.

[Mr_President 404]

If those comments he made about our strikers are real then I have mixed feelings about it. Pretty harsh criticism which we fans know is true but I hope this spurs our strikers on rather than sinks their confidence etc.

At least we know Mourinho recognises the striker position as a considerable issue, so much so that he has made comments like this. Here's to hoping that, along with his other recent comments regarding the same issue, the summer will bring us a capable goal scorer. This team isn't that far off being really strong, just a few final (expensive) ingredients.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

What's the point of saying that in public? Very idiotic thing to say.

[Barbara 15,149]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2566236/I-no-idea-Terry-good-Mourinho-hails-skipper.html

the best thing about this article is the 'Super Stat' box:

A good omen for Chelsea? When Jose Mourinho has been top of the table in February — at Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid — his team have always gone on to win the title.

beast!

[The Chels 2,502]

What's the point of saying that in public? Very idiotic thing to say.

I don't think it makes much difference in fairness. It's not as though he's said anything shocking; he's been implying our strikers are **** for a while now but just because he (pretty much) admitted to it here I doubt it will make them suddenly worse (is that even possible?).

the best thing about this article is the 'Super Stat' box:

beast!

Hah! City do have a game in hand though so I'm not sure it's very promising.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

I don't think it makes much difference in fairness. It's not as though he's said anything shocking; he's been implying our strikers are **** for a while now but just because he (pretty much) admitted to it here I doubt it will make them suddenly worse (is that even possible?).

Hah! City do have a game in hand though so I'm not sure it's very promising.

What a ridiculous post. Name one manager who openly slags of his own players?

It was a ridiculous and egocentric comment to make.

It's not like we create that much apart from counter attacks, set pieces & individual errors. Our entire offensive game-plan is pretty much give it to Eden and pray he does something.

Ba, Lukaku, Eto'o, Sturridge, Torres are all prolific outside Chelsea. Why is this club a strikers graveyard? You could argue against 2/3 players there but ALL 5?

[Tomo 21,751]

What a ridiculous post. Name one manager who openly slags of his own players?

It was a ridiculous and egocentric comment to make.

It's not like we create that much apart from counter attacks, set pieces & individual errors. Our entire offensive game-plan is pretty much give it to Eden and pray he does something.

Ba, Lukaku, Eto'o, Sturridge, Torres are all prolific outside Chelsea. Why is this club a strikers graveyard? You could argue against 2/3 players there but ALL 5?

Ba is a momentum player, he will deliver a decent return if given a run off games and responsibility, he has never got that here.

Lukaku barely played for us, Sturridge had a decent record for us actually.

Torres was on the wane under Woy before he even got here and Eto'o's not scoring like he use to for the same reason Drogba didn't post double.

[Jase 43,479]

I don't think this was a case of mind games/a 'trying to motivate the players' talk because it was said during an informal, behind-the-scenes type of frank conversation rather than anything pre-planned to feed the media.

And yet now the video is out there to the public...

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Our strikers either react strongly to this on the pitch, or become more shit

I'd bet on the latter mate!

[The only place to be 11,313]

What's the point of saying that in public? Very idiotic thing to say.

Yeah, it might dent our strikers confidence and stop them from being the free-scoring beasts that they are.

It was a low-risk, high-reward thing to say. Maybe it spurs them on to prove him wrong (like Azpi did when he wasn't playing earlier in the season) or maybe it just hastens their exit in the summer. It's also a devastatingly effective assessment of Falcao's current situation. I'm not his biggest fan but if Jose thinks he's the man for us then it's a nice way to turn his head.

Jose has spent a lot of time downplaying our chances this season and he's right to do so. We don't have a striker and that was evident on Saturday. Without that person to lead the line everything else we do on the pitch can be quite pointless because there's no player up top to keep the defenders honest. You need that threat from a number 9 to occupy the thoughts of the defenders which in turn gives an extra half-yard of space to the likes of Hazard and Willian.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Our strikers either react strongly to this on the pitch, or become more shit

[Gilvorak 3,734]

He should focus on giving interviews about Cahill's improvement or JT's resurgence instead of throwing players under the bus to save his arse.

Like I said earlier he's the one who loaned Lukaku out. No one else forced him.

It isn't some imaginary motivational tool either. He's just handing out early excuses in case we don't win anything this season.

[Term-X 7,891]

He should focus on giving interviews about Cahill's improvement or JT's resurgence instead of throwing players under the bus to save his arse.

Like I said earlier he's the one who loaned Lukaku out. No one else forced him.

It isn't some imaginary motivational tool either. He's just handing out early excuses in case we don't win anything this season.

So if you have a broken arm, not being able to lift weights is an.. 'excuse'.

Lukaku realised it was a World Cup year and asked to be loaned out, as he and Jose have confirmed in various interviews.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

He should focus on giving interviews about Cahill's improvement or JT's resurgence instead of throwing players under the bus to save his arse.

Like I said earlier he's the one who loaned Lukaku out. No one else forced him.

It isn't some imaginary motivational tool either. He's just handing out early excuses in case we don't win anything this season.

Lukaku asked for a loan....

[The only place to be 11,313]

It isn't some imaginary motivational tool either. He's just handing out early excuses in case we don't win anything this season.

I agree that he shouldn't have loaned out Lukaku, but I honestly don't see the harm in him being realistic about our striking situation. It's almost certainly going to cost us trophies, it's something he tried to address in the summer and what exactly are the ramifications of being honest about Samuel Eto'o, Fernando Torres and Demba Ba?

One of them is certainly leaving, one of them is possibly leaving and one of them is out of contract in a few months. Are they going to suddenly get worse? If just one of them looks as those comments and has an attack of pride and competitive spirit then we are better off.

This is just one of those moments that opens up Jose to possible criticism from certain quarters.

He should focus on giving interviews about Cahill's improvement or JT's resurgence instead of throwing players under the bus to save his arse.

His arse doesn't need saving for fuck's sake.

Here's part of an interview of him discussing Cahill's importance by the way.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Lukaku asked for a loan....

Mourinho acquiesced. It's his call and his error (in my opinion).

[Term-X 7,891]

Gotta give it to Gilvorak who's found a niche on the forum for being bitter towards Mourinho, what a shit niche to have!, lmao. At least Tommy10 has all that ladyboy shit..

When Mata was sold Gilvorak was actually advocating Rafa (of all people, just to attack Jose). Yet here is 'pointing fingers' at Jose for supposedly not praising Terry, a player who was marginalised by that very manager.

[Pizy 18,994]

So I'm the only one who laughed out load at his quotes?

José probably laughs himself to sleep each night thinking to himself how on Earth we're top of the league with no strikers. There's no way he could've seen this when he first joined.

Don't know what the big plan for a forward is this summer but it will be a shocker I think with the way José talks about it. If he is already saying that we'll be "favorites" for the title next season then he's obviously very confident that we'll pull of the move. Wouldn't shock me if we got more than one top forward. Also wouldn't totally surprise me if the Lukaku rumors of him being sold were true.

[HD3D 1,038]

What's the point of saying that in public? Very idiotic thing to say.

I agree. It's not very characteristic of him either. Although I'd like to watch the interview with subtitles to see if that's what he actually meant.