The Mourinho Thread

[iseah100 5,612]

Jose is not spot on at all. He is entirely wrong to claim that FFP was ever intended to be fair. It was no such thing. It was introduced at the behest of the big clubs (MP has said this) to protect their positions and stuff everybody else*.

ManU have not made a mockery of FFP. Their spending was utterly and completely within the rules. What they have done is fine, it is the regulations that are wrong but everybody has known that for a long time.

* To be clear, Platini said the clubs asked for FFP, he did not admit that it was set up to protect the big clubs. That part is just obvious from the way the regulations are designed.

He was right about it being a contradiciton. It's a policy used to keep the rich, rich, and the poor, poor. It's ridiculous. Man U spent almost £200m this summer alone, and aren't in the CL, if that isn't a mockery of a policy called "Financial Fair Play" than what is?

[OhForAGreavsie 5,903]

He was right about it being a contradiciton. It's a policy used to keep the rich, rich, and the poor, poor. It's ridiculous. Man U spent almost £200m this summer alone, and aren't in the CL, if that isn't a mockery of a policy called "Financial Fair Play" than what is?

It is not a mockery of FFP. It is only a mockery of what we think FFP should be. FFP is not, not, not what we think it should be. As you have pointed out, it is formulated in such a way as to benefit the old money clubs. When United use a system that is designed to help them, in a way that does actually help them, how can that be a mockery? We need to avoid the trap of judging FFP by what we hope it is, rather than by what it really is. FFP is not, was not, and was never intended to be, fair. If we don't like the way United have behaved, blame the people who wrote the regulations, not the club. The club did nothing wrong.

I didn't say Jose was wrong to point out that Financial Fair Play is a misnomer*, of course it is misleadingly named, it should really be called Financial Unfair Play. What I said Jose got wrong was the claim that FFP was ever intended to be fair, it was not. Indeed, if FFP was intended to be fair, our club would probably have voted against it, instead of supporting it enthusiastically as we have done.

*Steve Claridge and other idiot footballers please note; the word "misnomer" is correctly used in the sentence above. It would be nice if, just once, you used it correctly too!

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

[darrus 422]

You're trying really hard to jinx it

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

You're trying really hard to jinx it

Perhaps I put it in a wrong thread, should've been posted in Funny Pictures and Videos thread.

[nadavTKL 1,787]

Mourinho on Lampard: "When he decided to go to a direct competitor to Chelsea then love stories are over"

"I don't speak about Frank. To speak about Frank is to speak about 'my past with Frank', the player he 'was' for me.."

And then people here say we're idiots for calling Frank a traitor... even Jose thinks that.

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

Exactly.

We've said everything there is to say, and all the Lampard defenders have gone crawling into their caves.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Mourinho on Lampard: "When he decided to go to a direct competitor to Chelsea then love stories are over"

"I don't speak about Frank. To speak about Frank is to speak about 'my past with Frank', the player he 'was' for me.."

And then people here say we're idiots for calling Frank a traitor... even Jose thinks that.

Tbf, Jose is a glory hunter

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Mourinho on Lampard: "When he decided to go to a direct competitor to Chelsea then love stories are over"

"I don't speak about Frank. To speak about Frank is to speak about 'my past with Frank', the player he 'was' for me.."

And then people here say we're idiots for calling Frank a traitor... even Jose thinks that.

I am also seen that quote on Twitter around for a while now, but isn't Jose said that a long time ago? before or after City match against us, if I could remember. Weird to see that come to the surface again now. Maybe we will see that quote every time Lampard score from now..

[Special Juan 27,524]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2858290/Jose-Mourinho-attends-Victoria-s-Secret-fashion-night-Chelsea-s-Premier-League-clash-Tottenham.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

He goes where he wants

I can see exactly why he went.

[Term-X 7,891]

I can see exactly why he went.

Bit awkward that he was with his daughter though, then again.. portuguese culture might be less uptight.

[DH1988 1,331]

Honestly the more I see Frank playing for City and the interviews he gives the more I lose respect for him.

It is quite sad, and this is my own opinion of course, but he has completely ruined his Chelsea fanbase and status in my eyes.

Example? Damien Duff, Spurs bid more, Newcastle bid less "I couldn't go to Spurs, I know how Chelsea fans would feel about that"

I know Frank can still do it at the top level but was that a reason to go to manchester city of all places? "He's only on loan mate?" Go on loan to somewhere else.

[Jase 43,479]

What a stupid meme.

[SpecialistsInFailure 68]

Everytime I see or hear 'Lampard' I instantly get sick to the core of my stomach.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,903]

Honestly the more I see Frank playing for City and the interviews he gives the more I lose respect for him.

It is quite sad, and this is my own opinion of course, but he has completely ruined his Chelsea fanbase and status in my eyes.

Example? Damien Duff, Spurs bid more, Newcastle bid less "I couldn't go to Spurs, I know how Chelsea fans would feel about that"

I know Frank can still do it at the top level but was that a reason to go to manchester city of all places? "He's only on loan mate?" Go on loan to somewhere else.

They say you can only truly hate what you once loved so perhaps it's because I never loved Frank that I don't feel any bitterness towards him now.

Forget the loan, Frank is at City because his contract at Chelsea ran out. If Chelsea had wanted Frank enough to offer him a new deal he found acceptable, he'd still be here. Since we didn't do that, he left. That's all fine in my book. City or no City, Frank would never have ranked among my favourite players but nothing he does for Man City will sully his Chelsea legacy as far as I'm concerned.

Frank is entitled to pursue his career and, be honest, it would be remarkable if he was not at least a little bit motivated by wanting to show Chelsea that that'd made a mistake. Personally, I don't think we made a mistake but that's irrelevant, it's what the man himself thinks that counts. While he was here, that man did what he did, and we won what we won. His legacy is in the book. Let's all just say amen and leave it at that.

[Atlas Lion 1,223]

you mean the moscow final (which I don't even want to remember, I don't remember being as hateful, pissed off and simply devastated by a sports match like that), I actually mean in the SF against Liverpool in 2005...

We weren't tbh. If it wasnt a goal then it would of been a penalty with Cech going off after his challenge against Garcia.

[xPetrCechx 13,565]

[Tomo 21,736]

Honestly the more I see Frank playing for City and the interviews he gives the more I lose respect for him.

It is quite sad, and this is my own opinion of course, but he has completely ruined his Chelsea fanbase and status in my eyes.

Example? Damien Duff, Spurs bid more, Newcastle bid less "I couldn't go to Spurs, I know how Chelsea fans would feel about that"

I know Frank can still do it at the top level but was that a reason to go to manchester city of all places? "He's only on loan mate?" Go on loan to somewhere else.

It certainly puts into perspective just how much off a legend Didier Drogba is let alone Terry.