just reading..Star online Jose has 300 million to spend on players.
EDIT: An he rates Rashford and will retain him as a first team player?!
EDIT: An he rates Rashford and will retain him as a first team player?!
BBC: United hold talks with Mourinho
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f*ck off you cannot be serious. I know Mourinho likes old centre backs that defend deep and are dirty sobs but Carvalho is 38 in a months time. A younger version of him like Godin perhaps or even Smalling is on his way to that style of defending with his increasing number of fouls and grappling with forwards and their shirts.
did not mean to jump!
but Ricardo did not even enter my thoughts.
He left Porto because he had just won the treble and had a huge offer from Chelsea. He was sacked by Chelsea in his first stint, he didn't leave. He left Inter after winning the first treble in their history. He was sacked by Madrid and turned them from a side which constantly got KO'd at the last 16 of the CL to a team that makes the semi finals or better every year. He won the title with Chelsea and was sacked in his 2nd stint, at no point did he feck off when the going got tough.
Oh I agree with you there. If he is United manager next season, I will hope he does well just as i did with Moyes and still do with LVG.
I have seen one of the best manager managing my club for ages. It will be normal and usual for me and others to find lots of faults with other managers. I will just have to deal with it.
PSG's chairman has confirmed that Blanc will be the manager next season. Won't stop people from panicking here but I guess you could rule out PSG then.
Sneijder? Really? There is people who still think he would have been a good signing for us?
Scenes when Mourinho plays a load of kids in the cup, gets knocked out and people demand his balls on a plate
I think it's something he has to deal with, and have a plan for -- playing kids. You will have the fans against you if the first thing you do was to bench/get rid of some of our most promising prospects from this season. He knows our team and our history, he will just have to adapt to some degree. I just hope he'll do well, regardless of kids or not, should he come.
I know LVGs football has been poor at time this year, but he was out scoring Chelsea when Mourinho was there this year. Imagine how crap their football was.
So... LVG > Mourinho then?
By that same point of reference, Leicester are the greatest premierahip team of all time.
This
We'd only scored three more goals than them at the point Mourinho was sacked.
That's like three games worth of goals.
Yeah of course I'd prefer to see LVG than Mourinho.
Home run. Haha
Why just use a handful of gmes at the start of this season and ignore the season before when Chelsea finished 1st and we were 4th?
And when you look at Mourinho's career as a whole the start of this season is very much an outlier, it's silly to judge him on that alone.
After what I read from de Visser - no I do not want Mourinho as manager.
Because I predicted this shit season before it happened. When he got to Chelsea. Because I don't see Mourinho as being a manager with a long term plan. At all. He will throw everything at the current season. He manipulates his players into utter cocks, gives them this hatred for everyone else and runs them into the ground.
He would come next year, spend millions, get rid of some talented players who weren't up to his standard right now and then in two years when they're all fecking sick of the absolute cretin he will leave and we will all ask "was it worth it?"
Shades of that Dutch paper reporting that LvG was coming in 2014.. Fingers crossed!
The fact remains - that Mourinho mainly did well because of Ranieri's signings. Mourinho's record was never great at Chelsea
He gave Loftus-Cheek 1 start and Ake & Izzy Brown 1 sub appearance each after we had won the league.
Prior to that nothing in the league. A few games here and there in the cups (depending on the opposition).
BullshitCech
Drogba
Robben
Carvalho
Tiago
Essien
All signed by Mourinho.
The only players, signed by Ranieri, that was a mainstay with Mourinho was Damien Duff and Joe Cole
Cech
Drogba
Robben
Carvalho
Tiago
Essien
All signed by Mourinho.
The only players, signed by Ranieri, that was a mainstay with Mourinho was Damien Duff and Joe Cole
Cech and Robben were not signed by Mourinho.
Their then-manager, Claudio Ranieri, wanted Čech to be understudy to Carlo Cudicini, and made a transfer bid for Čech in January 2004.[17]Although an initial bid was rejected, Rennes agreed to Čech's move to Chelsea for £7 million in February. Čech signed a five-year contract, to commence in July 2004, becoming the most expensive goalkeeper in Chelsea's history
After this good start, PSV could not keep up with rival Ajax and were forced into a fight for second place in the Eredivisie. Robben travelled to London and met with Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson. Ferguson's offer came in much too low for PSV's and Robben's liking; PSV chairman Harry van Raaij told Manchester United the most that their €7 million offer would buy them was a shirt with Robben's autograph. Almost immediately, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich offered €18 million (£12.1 million), and PSV accepted
Cech
Drogba
Robben
Carvalho
Tiago
Essien
All signed by Mourinho.
The only players, signed by Ranieri, that was a mainstay with Mourinho was Damien Duff and Joe Cole
Cech was signed in February 2004 and Robben in March 2004, so that's Ranieri's.
Besides that Lampard was signed by Ranieri too.
Fair points well made.
However, it is ridiculous to say try and take the credit away from Mourinho for those title wins. He transformed that place.
If that's the case, Pearson's work has won Leicester the league this season.
Ranieri did a good job and laid the foundations but Mourinho turned that Chelsea side into a machine.
Of course.
Now, less talk about Mourinho's pedigree - that is well established - and more gushing about that Portuguese paper
Of course Mourinho and Ranieri are the ones to praise the most, and generally no manager have bought the whole team themselves anyway, that would take about 4-5 years at the same club for that to happen. Klopp is also working with Rodgers' players, he's just doing much better with them.
Of course.
Now, less talk about Mourinho's pedigree - that is well established - and more gushing about that Portuguese paper
It's going to be one hell of a ride
Can't wait for the responses from those against him when he wins the league....Piss will be brought to the boil
Guardiola will be carried away in a straight jacket, kicking and screaming like a Donkey with a hernia
It's going to be one hell of a ride
Can't wait for the responses from those against him when he wins the league....Piss will be brought to the boil
Guardiola will be carried away in a straight jacket, kicking and screaming like a Donkey with a hernia
That's just the thing.. Guardiola will be dreading coming up against him in the league, let alone manage in the same fecking city! The last time Pep had to take a year off
Jose will poke at him at every chance and it will be glorious.That's just the thing.. Guardiola will be dreading coming up against him in the league, let alone manage in the same fecking city! The last time Pep had to take a year off
Indeed. It'll be glorious seeing him wind him up. Can't stand him
There'll be no fecking Fabio at right back this time, Pep! (Still raging over that team selection and bitter)
That's just the thing.. Guardiola will be dreading coming up against him in the league, let alone manage in the same fecking city! The last time Pep had to take a year off
It will be fun! I can't wait to welcome Mourinho!
He should also bring Pepe with him, just to spice things up. OK, Pepe is old, but he can be a sub for a few special games!
The amount of people in here trying to discredit Mourinho's achievements is just ridiculous.
We get it, you don't like the guy but he's arguably the best manager of this generation.
We get it, you don't like the guy but he's arguably the best manager of this generation.
Fabio being one of our best players in the final?
Bollix was he! None of them were. Rooney was about the only one that night, that showed anything close to being good enough.
You're wasting your breath, pessimism and panic triumph over logic here.
Only way for him to change his ways regarding his acting and views about youth is that board with SAF have a strong talk,so he understands what we are about. Even if that happens,doubt it will last,because classless cnut will get on top at the end.
it's only because LVG failed in 2 summer transfer windows that he's given so many young players their debuts over his tenure regardless of what he may have us believe
Rashford has been great but no one would not trade sitting top of the league for him still playing for the reserves
Rashford has been great but no one would not trade sitting top of the league for him still playing for the reserves
You're wrong. Just look at the poll on top of the page.You're wasting your breath, pessimism and panic triumph over logic here.
Besides, posters aren't criticising his achievements. The reservations few have are his methods and demeanour.
To be honest, I reckon Mourinho's Chelsea is what catapulted us to the glory days of 06-09. It's no secret SAF had to change his whole approach as a result of Mourinho.
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