José "The Special One" Mourinho

[king_elnino]

Anyone can recommend a book about Mourinho? Preferable including his time with us.

you could watch netflix series “coach playbook”. Its only 30 minutes, but it offered a good lesson in life based on mourinho vision.

 

[Materazzi_23]

you could watch netflix series “coach playbook”. Its only 30 minutes, but it offered a good lesson in life based on mourinho vision.

Thank you I've watched it this weekend it was nice!

 

[brehme1989]

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[Ffi201zi002tlis]

but our genius CEO picked him and people said that Conte was the best choice available blivious:

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

One thing I always liked about Mou is that he's never afraid to make changes early. More managers should follow this example.

If he was coaching us on Saturday, I guarantee you after going 0-2 we would have seen some subs already in the 1st half.

 

[Ffi201zi002tlis]

can't believe we ignored him to spend 12M/year on a Rube cunt oh well, we hired another Rube cunt as our CEO as well

 

[TheNetworkZ]

I love him and want him to win at Tottenham, but I don't want him to have a 2nd stint here.

 

[Adriano]

One thing I always liked about Mou is that he's never afraid to make changes early. More managers should follow this example.

If he was coaching us on Saturday, I guarantee you after going 0-2 we would have seen some subs already in the 1st half.

mourinho is one of the most fearless managers ive ever seen, for better or for worse, thats why i respect him so much

 

[dax21]

I couldn't sleep last night so I binge watched a lot of the Spurs documentary videos. I don't follow EPL, I don't watch Spurs games, I won't pretend that I am knowledgeable about their tactics and style but when it comes to Mourinho alone - I am now completely convinced that he didn't lose anything skills-wise, he didn't become a flop, he is still an elite manager. And the damn documentary has such a solemn, depressing vibe, it's underselling everything in it.

Mourinho still has that fire inside even if he doesn't show it as much. For two reasons - one, he won everything and he got older. It's hard enough to sustain that continuous expression of the passion when you don't win at all, it's that much more harder when you continue to win and deliver. He also has to deal with terrible personalities in today's squads that are more worried about their social media game than the football one. That might have been at an extreme end of the spectrum at United, but Spurs also have their fair share of primadonas and entitled shitters. Spurs have a really interesting upcoming streak of games and I will try to follow them throughout the end of the year because that will give me some actual data to form better opinions but if they can get through that streak successfully, who knows what could happen.

I don't see him staying past this season at Tottenham, and I also see him having a decent, not great but decent chance of winning something this year. If we disintegrate under Conte by next summer, which is looking more and more likely, I would by all means go for Mourinho. Our current squad has amazing players who are humble and dedicated and I am absolutely assured that the core of the squad could do very well with him.

To people who say things like "I don't want to see our legacy destroyed and my memories ruined" - perhaps you would do well to stop living in the past. It's been a decade now, I was 19 when we won the triplete and I'm turning 30 in couple of months.

 

[Il Drago]

To people who say things like "I don't want to see our legacy destroyed and my memories ruined" - perhaps you would do well to stop living in the past. It's been a decade now, I was 19 when we won the triplete and I'm turning 30 in couple of months.

You should remember this when people are asking for Mourinho to get fired. Mourinho achieved perfection with Inter and nothing could top that season. In the eyes of Interisti (at least most of them) Mourinho is GOD. A potential failure at Inter would ruin that image and his Inter legacy. It would make him human. Most times sequels are much worse than the original. I want my last memory of Inter's Mourinho to be the final in Madrid, not the announcement of his firing in a cold winter morning after our winter curse hitting once again.

 

[dax21]

It would be foolish to expect him to replicate his success. It's impossible. So when you remove that idea from the start, you realize that it has nothing to do with his past at Inter.

This squad has players that are destined to be future champions - Skriniar, Bastoni, De Vrij, Barella, Lukaku, even Lautaro who I don't rate as highly as some of you here do - these are all players who will lift trophies in the coming years, the only question is will it be in our shirt or some other club. And all these players, in fact our entire squad for that matter, knows that we are moving up, we are getting closer. Even if they dislike Conte and aren't trusting his system - they still know that Conte is a step up even if it ends up being futile. The players are aware that we are in a forward momentum, the mentality is still an issue but considerably less than before, the winning spirit is starting to manifest, for the first time in a long while our problems are of tactical/kinetic nature instead of purely mental... and that goes to say something considering just how utterly terrible some of the players came and went through our club in the past years were.

We can't allow ourselves to go down from Conte. We can't go for Gasperini or De Zerbi or any of these B and C list managers. In fact, we should stray away from Italian managers and get a proven foreign one, available Italians are all tactically overly stubborn and suffer from piss poor mentality given that they all had to develop under the decade long Juventus reign - no wonder they are all spineless and meek when shit hits the fan.

I'd rather go with Mourinho and risk it being a failure than willingly revert us back 5 years into another banter era where all the best players jump ship and we go back to being a midtable club like in those years. It's not like anyone can take away the Champions League trophy away from us.

 

[A.l.i]

Agreed.

 

[Ffi201zi002tlis]

If only we chose him over those Rubentino scumbag :alone:

 

[Devious]

Don’t get me started, Fifi. I’m fully gutted.

 

[Materazzi_23]

Funny to see what a year Mourinho can do to a club and what 1,5 years of Conte can do.

It seems that Mourinho is enjoying himself again and he is tactical the best coach there is. Would be great for him to win a price at Spurs and in the summer returns to Inter and start a new project with us.

 

[bubba zanetti]

Manager of the month in PL...Ok,Don Cuntonio is manager of the year in CL this season lol

 

[Jusef]

Mourinho has many quality traits but his best characteristic has to be his ability to adapt and feel out a game. This is what Conte doesn’t possess and probably will never develop.

 

[BUCHROM]

I watched their game vs Fulham now and the similarities with Conte in terms of parking the bus after 1-0 are incredible. Tottenham didnt played anything, Fulham controlled the game like it was barca vs osasuna. They just sat deep and waited the goal to come

one comment from the bbc site that looks like us moaning about cunte:

"Mourinho can go. I’ve had enough. This is now the 7th or 8th game so far in the first half of the season where points have been dropped in exactly the same style. He’s one of the highest paid managers in the league and yet it’s the same thing every single game?!"

 

[Universe]

lmao

I was just typing that I didn't watch the game but saw Spurs held by another late equalizer. I was going to ask if it was a repeat of previous games where they refused to play football after taking the lead, but then I refreshed the page and saw your post

As someone who wants Jose to do well (at least better than that fucken amateur Solskjaer), and as someone who merely wants to enjoy a game of football, I have to say it's fucking infuriating (and rather pathetic) to watch.

 

[CoolMan44]

Mourinho is done at the highest level, that's been obvious for some time.

I was also reminded of us and Conte with him sitting on these 1-0 leads. Neither of them will change though, no matter how many times they end with egg on their face.