The Mourinho Thread

[Kezza 1,965]

We wanted Jose, we pleaded for him to come back, let him do what he needs to do.

He's taken a broken team fighting for CL to two points off the PL leaders..Now people are pissed cause he's doing what a manager should do, making a decision on a player.

[Spike 12,049]

Turmoil in this thread is a massive understatement. The traffic will cause the forum to crash. I'm amazed it hasn't crashed already to be honest.

It will feel so wrong to be selling a player to a rival. I almost want to avoid the truth of it for a few days but I know that's impossible given that warnings will be need to handed out left, right and centre as the weight of the situation settles in. People will go insane.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Mourinho is doing a very good job so far, I dont blame him for Mata!

[HD3D 1,038]

Telegraph, the newspaper that originally reported Mata was heading for United, is saying the decision to sell Mata to them wasn't a Mourinho idea. Instead, the Chelsea board welcomed the high bid and Mourinho simply placed no objection.

This is somewhat good news because if this gamble comes back to bite us in the ass, even though some fans will be quick to point fingers at the manager, internally, the club will know it was a collective mistake.

(...) with Mourinho accepting that the scale of United’s offer is too big to refuse given his priorities in strengthening his team lie elsewhere. The bid is at a level that it will have been deemed impossible to turn down by the Chelsea board. Mourinho’s only stipulation was to make the move happening quickly so he could possibly re-invest ahead of the window closing on Jan 31.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/10590820/Juan-Matas-37million-transfer-to-Manchester-United-accepted-by-Chelsea.html

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

Maybe Jose has injected Mata with a contagious virus that makes you play shit, the origins of the virus came from Fernando Torres. He is now on a mission to infect the United squad, although some would say that has already happened.

On a serious note, I bloody hope Jose is looking for a striker right now

[Fernando 6,585]

To me this feels like the deal mourinho did at Inter.

Changing ibra for eto.

While ibra a great player never fitted into barca system.

At United, they are a mess, have a horrible team and horrible manager.

It will be a while before they are real title contenders.

[The_Flash 1,144]

I can't believe Mata is not begging to stay

[AndersonBLUE 819]

Invest this into a striker please or we will look like mugs.

[Tomo 21,751]

I wonder if many off the people who were whining about player power for years are also moaning about the Mata situation.

The irony is hilarious, they finally get their wish player power is gone now they are moaning about that

[Fernando 6,585]

I wonder if many off the people who were whining about player power for years are also moaning about the Mata situation.

The irony is hilarious, they finally get their wish player power is gone now they are moaning about that

I really don't know about this.

Mata has not done anything to be put into that player power.

If anything it where in the past Drogba, Terry and Lampard. Yet they stayed in the club.

[Tomo 21,751]

I don't mean Mata per se, in previous years the one thing most off us has wanted is the manager having the main say and building his squad.

Now that's happening and some now don't want that after all.

[Tomo 21,751]

Imagine if Jose left and the next manager still choose Hazard-Oscar-Willian?

It would be exactly like when half the planet constantly slated Mou for dropping Cassilas then in came Ancelotti who kept him on the bench, awkward.