The long term factor shouldn't remain on the managers but on the club structures. Sometimes managers lose dressing rooms and there's no way back. They can get exhausted at some point, especially the ones with more pressure around, or maybe they have problems with the board, or any other thing. 3 years for a manager is a good and healthy amount of time. My problem with 'long term' and 'Mourinho' is about his contributions to the club in a more deep level, results aside.
I see clubs like Barcelona, Bayern, who know what they want in terms of style. They are ambitious tactically and they develop along the years, building at the same time they try to fight for trophies. When a manager leaves and a new one takes over, he has a developed team and they don't need to work from zero. And Mourinho, to my eyes at least, is not a manager who builds anything solid or complex during his tenures.
His short-term management is excellent, because he knows how to extract 120 % from the squad both physical and mentally. He analyzes every detail about the opposition, so he sets the team differently depending on what's needed. You can go sure to every match, because he'll know how to face it. But I think all his teams lacked tactical deepness, they remain basic even if he makes some improvements. When they drop the levels of intensity just a little you don't have anything solid there.
And it's very difficult for a team to keep the level of focus, hunger, aggression, and the physical demand he normally sets to be competitive. In the last 6 years in 2 different clubs he's won two leagues. After the first one at Real, he started the next season and he lost the chances of winning it in September. After winning his last league with Chelsea, we all know what happened.
We can say he knows how to make a team to achieve even above their expectations. But I don't find interesting to reach a high competitive level, if you can't keep some minimums after that. He's lost two dressing rooms in a row after achieving in his second season, and I don't think his aggressive management is sustainable in the long run.
Some people say that "maybe he's thinking long term now". The key to remain for more time will be to reduce his short term demands, and this will have a negative impact on immediate results. He's been successful in the past because he's an 'explosive' manager, and this is his style. He's not a builder, or someone who works with slow fire. If he changes his methods we'll be hiring a different manager, a total unknown.
If we're going to sign him I'd rather he keeps doing the same he always did. If our current board don't have a clue of what to do, and how to build something properly, let's get someone at least who can make us competitive, unlike the last clowns we appointed. But I think the Mourinho signing would be something to accept with resignation, not something to celebrate.
This is not the way of doing things for a club like us, and I find this decision amateurish, irresponsible and based on desperation. A decent club works in a more professional manner, with football people, 'tunned' with the modern times, ruling the destinies. A more solid plan and better definition in term of ideas, values, tactical ambitions. Our club is empty and we look for someone who can fill it all by himself. If we sign Mourinho and he ends being a failure or not convincing us, he won't be the one to blame.
Mourinho is done, so its better to get used to it. I am really happy that we got him. We need a manager like him.
