José "The Special One" Mourinho

[NimAraya]

looks funny, but he is losing it from top teir teams into medicores into turkey. with his anger problems dont think he will have an oppourtunity with big teams in the future.

 

[Armes]

Never liked this kind of shit from him, including that Vilanova incident and to some extent the physical feuds with Wenger. Go have your fun with words Jose, you're a grown man and a master at it. Why do these childish things?

 

[wera]

Some people just have a short fuse and can't help themselves.

 

[bubba zanetti]

Still the greatest Inter coach in last 50 years.

 

[Jane The Virgin]

Peaked with us.

He has been a joke ever since. A meme. He keeps fukcing up his legacy.

 

[brehme1989]

haven't seen the incident but the image makes him look childish

 

[vasilios]

Just embarrassing all around. Mourinho honked him like Mr Miyagi and Okan goes down like he had been shot

 

[bolo]

Jose "The Seagel One" Mourinho

 

[Barellielo]

guy needs to see a therapist or have someone close to him have a talk with him.

 

[wera]

Peaked with us.

He has been a joke ever since. A meme. He keeps fukcing up his legacy.

Nah, as much as I have a lot to criticize about him, his Real, Chelsea and Manchester United stints weren't a joke.

After that, another story.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Haha this episode is hilarious on both parties involved.

 

[bubba zanetti]

Peaked with us.

He has been a joke ever since. A meme. He keeps fukcing up his legacy.

No.

 

[brehme1989]

Nah, as much as I have a lot to criticize about him, his Real, Chelsea and Manchester United stints weren't a joke.

After that, another story.

Tottenham was his biggest problem

At Roma he was more than decent.

The problem he has is that all the top sides have managers that they'll keep and Real Madrid spot isn't vacant. And if it becomes, there's Xabi Alonso for it now. And Zizou as an all time candidate to fill that spot.

He won't go to Juventus or Milan.
Most PL clubs won't go for him, maybe Newcastle would and I feel he'd do amazing there.
He won't go to France or Germany, although PSG might offer him money if they think he's their guy for the CL.

And Barcelona will never hire him.

There's practically no other top side, so he can choose to compete for trophies in secondary leagues, with EL and/or Conference League as a target.

 

[Damageplan]

Got your nose ! - Mourinho probably

 

[Jane The Virgin]

Nah, as much as I have a lot to criticize about him, his Real, Chelsea and Manchester United stints weren't a joke.

After that, another story.

No.

Hmm, ok fair, maybe I am a bit too harsh... I’ll give him the 2015 Chelsea title… that Pogba taxi season at United wasn’t nothing… but come on, this is MOURINHO. The guy who called himself the SPECIAL ONE and actually WAS. Porto, Chelsea and then Inter, that is peak Mou.

But after us? Feels like he lost the plot. At Real he had Cristiano in god mode, on top of that unlimited cash and only won one (uno!) league in 3 years? Scecond time at Chelsea starts amazing and then ends up getting fired at 14/15 place?? At United he spends ~500m (you can build up a team from scratch with that money and win titles) to play below average unwatchable football. And since leaving us, champions league is a taboo for him..

My point is: post-Inter Mou wasn’t a flop, but he stopped being Mourinho. His aura was gone. Like finishing 6th with Roma after they gave him more than 100 millions to spend? Getting sacked by the freaking spurs before a cup final? This is the guy who made us feel invincible, but now everywhere he goes, no matter in what kind of state he finds the club, he shortly leaves and when he leaves, that club is a fucking mess.

Treble Mou is forever a legend, all the gestures, all the pre and post game interviews and press conferences he had with us, they all meant something, not just to us fans, but to the whole football world... But after 2010 he just became… idk, a washed version of himself? All the memes, the excuses, the same old defensive tactics. Feels like the fire died...

 

[wera]

Yeah nobody is saying Inter Mou isn't peak Mou, but his "downfall" was slower than many a coach

No matter what he does now, he'll remain a football legend

 

[brehme1989]

Tell me I fall for everything English football media feeds me. I'll go first:

But after us? Feels like he lost the plot. At Real he had Cristiano in god mode, on top of that unlimited cash and only won one (uno!) league in 3 years? Scecond time at Chelsea starts amazing and then ends up getting fired at 14/15 place?? At United he spends ~500m (you can build up a team from scratch with that money and win titles) to play below average unwatchable football. And since leaving us, champions league is a taboo for him..

What exactly do you mean by CL is a taboo for him?
He took Real Madrid to three consecutive CL semi finals in his three seasons there. Looking at it 15 years after his move makes it seem underwhelming, looking at it in 2013 it means that:
- He dethroned what was considered the greatest team in the world and for some the greatest club side of all time.
- He took Real Madrid past the Round of 16 for the first time since 2003-4.
- He took Real Madrid to the semi finals of CL for the first time since 2002-3.
- He won the league against Barcelona, a side that was beating Real Madrid 5-0 for fun.
- He made Cristiano Ronaldo a striker.
- He didn't spend a shitload, heck Barcelona outspent them - possibly for the first time ever - during that three year period.
(Real got Ozil, Di Maria, Khedira, Carvalho, Varane, Sahin and Modric during that period and a few othes for a total of 150m euros whereas Barcelona got David Villa, Mascherano, Alexis Sanchez, Fabregas, Adriano from Sevilla, Jordi Alba, Alex Song and a couple of others for over 200m, and net spend wasn't that much different either)

La Liga clasicos before and during Mourinho's time at Real Madrid.


Scoreline aside, it was the first time in years that Real Madrid didn't fear going out against Barcelona.
Do I need to remind people that Real Madrid bought Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Benzema, Xabi Alonso and got Raul Albiol back from Valencia the summer before Mourinho joined them and they still fell short in the league while they crashed out of CL to Lyon?

Cup:


And this CL defeat:




Now, do we talk about winning with Chelsea and making Manchester United look like a team that can win stuff?
Or how Tottenham reached a final despite every player hating him because they were soft losers that couldn't handle the pressure?
Or how he took Roma to two European finals, won one and got robbed in the other?

Going for a big contract to Turkey isn't an insult. It's a well respected side that has a big following and could succeed in the secondary competitions of Europe. Sure, it's no CL contender, but Mourinho is still one of the best managers around. It's just that football has changed so much that managements don't have the appetite to handle such coaches and players at big clubs have too much of an influence to be following a coach's orders.

There's no such thing as a coach "losing it" or being "out of form". Look at Conte for example. Sucked hard at Tottenham, came to an environment that suited him and made Napoli a contender after they had a terrible season the year prior. You don't think there's such a place for Mourinho?

 

[NimAraya]

You don't think there's such a place for Mourinho?

You name it.

 

[wera]

He who burns brightest goes to ash sooner than others. Mourinho not being a coach that can work in a longterm way will forever be his weakness and why some clubs are not interested in him even with all his trophies and apparent qualities.

He is not a miracle worker, he'll get annoyed at his players and leave a club before he admits that he isn't the Special One anymore.

 

[brehme1989]

You name it.

Currently? There are no openings. Hence why he's not somewhere.

I mentioned elsewhere, he has either a closed door with some clubs (eg Barcelona, Man Utd, Arsenal) or he's closed it himself (eg Milan, Juventus, Bayern)

I think he'd do wonders at Newcastle, for example.

But there are other clubs where he'd be a good fit. Inter is one, but why would we even consider changing a coach? Atletico Madrid is another. Also, they don't need to consider changing coaches, and I'm not even sure he'd want to go there. Real Madrid, another. Again, they wouldn't change their coach and they'd probably locked on Xabi Alonso. Heck, even Liverpool sounds like a great place for both Mourinho and the club.