José "The Special One" Mourinho

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I hope he wins but this was really some anti advertising for Italian football.
 

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I don't consider winning conference league an "achievement" tbh. It's a horrible tournament with barely any legit team. Winning EL will be his first considerable trophy with Roma imo.
 

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I don't consider winning conference league an "achievement" tbh. It's a horrible tournament with barely any legit team. Winning EL will be his first considerable trophy with Roma imo.

It reminds me of the UEFA Intertoto Cup.


One shot on goal, two buses parked and a lot of whining of "hurt" players.
 

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I don't consider winning conference league an "achievement" tbh. It's a horrible tournament with barely any legit team. Winning EL will be his first considerable trophy with Roma imo.
If anything, this is the best thing UEFA has done after all the damage it caused to European football in the last 15 or so years.

Teams and their fans from Europe have a tournament to look forward to that isn't always dictated by who has the biggest wallet.
 

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If anything, this is the best thing UEFA has done after all the damage it caused to European football in the last 15 or so years.

Teams and their fans from Europe have a tournament to look forward to that isn't always dictated by who has the biggest wallet.
Have you looked at the finalists?
 

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Have you looked at the finalists?
Of course. This can't be stopped.

Have you looked at the semi finalists?
Have you looked at the quarter finalists?
Last 16?
 

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It reminds me of the UEFA Intertoto Cup.



One shot on goal, two buses parked and a lot of whining of "hurt" players.
Exactly how Sevilla won their EL trophy against us. I can imagine they'll try the same shit again, so them and Roma will roll around the field for 90 (+30?) minutes together
 

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If anything, this is the best thing UEFA has done after all the damage it caused to European football in the last 15 or so years.

Teams and their fans from Europe have a tournament to look forward to that isn't always dictated by who has the biggest wallet.
totally agree with, Brehme. Football is not always about major the trophy and massive amount of money. i believe UEFA have made very good decision. equal opportunity to medium and small clubs are essential for the development of football both in technical aspect and non-technical aspect. we can expect new talents appear or self-reforming of small clubs so they can still be in ECL . i can only imagine the joy and euphoria of the fans when they reach further stages of ECL or win the cup. writing new history for the clubs on European stage is a real pride to be honest.
 

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Exactly how Sevilla won their EL trophy against us. I can imagine they'll try the same shit again, so them and Roma will roll around the field for 90 (+30?) minutes together

1. So what? Because others do it makes it better?

2. Sevilla had at least some shots on our goal. It felt like Roma never left its own half and this constant "I'm hurt" - "Oh, now I'm fine" was brought to a new level.

totally agree with, Brehme. Football is not always about major the trophy and massive amount of money. i believe UEFA have made very good decision. equal opportunity to medium and small clubs are essential for the development of football both in technical aspect and non-technical aspect. we can expect new talents appear or self-reforming of small clubs so they can still be in ECL . i can only imagine the joy and euphoria of the fans when they reach further stages of ECL or win the cup. writing new history for the clubs on European stage is a real pride to be honest.

Like it's not about the money for the UEFA. And that ECL is nice for clubs like Lech Posen or Basel, but when a club like Roma celebrates that title like it's the Champions League it's kinda awkward.
 
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Like it's not about the money for the UEFA. And that ECL is nice for clubs like Lech Posen or Basel, but when a club like Roma celebrates that title like it's the Champions League it's kinda awkward.
Is it though? Roma in it s fucken almost 100 years history has won a grand total of 3 scudetti / 9 coppas / 2 supper coppas/ 1 conference league and 1 inter city fairs cup(what ever the fuck that is)

Not celebrating a ECL title for a club that has won so little and in its history has 3 titles that are worth more would be kind of arrogant.....
I know i would celebrate it if Inter had won so little even more so if the last title is a coppa/supercoppa that was won 15 years ago
 

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I don't consider winning conference league an "achievement" tbh. It's a horrible tournament with barely any legit team. Winning EL will be his first considerable trophy with Roma imo.
I disagree. I hate to discredit teams in Conference league, it's full of professional players, Mou just showed that he still has certain tricks up his sleeve to give Roma the edge.

It's not like last seasons Roma wasn't full of internal strife and mostly average players. Now they have Dybala to make them too good for Conference league IMO. They deserve to be in the EL final, but they are far from a long run in CL type of team. We'll see how they manage transfers this summer
 

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I disagree. I hate to discredit teams in Conference league, it's full of professional players, Mou just showed that he still has certain tricks up his sleeve to give Roma the edge.

It's not like last seasons Roma wasn't full of internal strife and mostly average players. Now they have Dybala to make them too good for Conference league IMO. They deserve to be in the EL final, but they are far from a long run in CL type of team. We'll see how they manage transfers this summer
Yeah, this is a good shout.

People generally consider everything under the level of CL knockouts an absolute trash because it's the shitty culture in Internet to usually just bash everything. These clubs playing in EL or even in ECL are at pretty top level when it comes to the big picture. Given the amount of clubs and competition in European football leagues, these clubs are playing at high level. Not at the HIGHEST but still pretty high.
 

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Roma hadn't reached a European final for 31 years and had never won one until Jose Mourinho arrived.
He's led them to back-to-back European finals in his first two seasons at the club.

One for Mou fans to feel good about.
 

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does anyone know how much mourinho has net spent at Roma?
 

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And that's what Roma spent whilst Mourinho is there, not what HE spent
 
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