Why on earth would Abramovic force Mourinho to buy Wright Philips? That's silly. He did bring in Grant, and there's no doubt he fell out with Jose, but, Mourinho falls out with everyone, in fairness. He doesn't like having his ego checked. Of the managers Chelsea have had since, Grant and Scolari were a bit shit, and Hiddink never wanted the job full time to begin with.
Who does Mourinho fall out with? Abramovich, and understandably so. He also supposedly fell out with Terry, but again he thought he was bigger than the club, and two big ego's like that is like Weaste and Brad colliding - we saw what happened there.
Grant wasn't shit. He took Chelsea to the to within a couple of points of the title, and would have won the CL were it not for a Terry slip. Scolari was not shit either, his team had run into a bit of a bad patch and so he was dimissed. Abramovich is just trigger happy, face it. Hiddink would have also taken the job had he not been managing Russia aswell.
Most managers make the odd bad signing (apart from Wenger), and as a result they usually either get sacked or stick it out and turn things round. I'm just pointing out the innacuracy of laying the blame for said bad signings at Abramovic's feet.
Wenger never makes a bad signing? Surely you're joking? Jeffers for £8m, Wiltord for £13m, Reyes for £17m, Cygan et al, he's made a fair few howlers himself, to say he hasn't is silly. And Mourinho did make some bad signings, of course he did, but he also made some very good ones. And he would have stayed and stuck it out had Abramovich not decided to start signing players for him and decided not to bring in a Director of Football which time and time again has been proven not to work (At least in England).
and it's not just the bring football...that I could stand. It's the whole attitude/mentality his teams play with. "I do not entertain!"
His teams mentality was to win, just as ours is.
That's the thing though, it's just not true.
His teams can and have played good football, but usually they play fairly mechanical football. Good football was us in 07/08. Great football was us in 06/07. Mechanical football was us in 08/09.
Under Sir Alex we've played all of the three over the course of a season, just like Mourinho. It's not the quality of attacking football you can play at your best though, it's the average quality of attacking football. Sir Alex is near the top and Mourinho's near the bottom, for top club managers.
Would you say Benitez encourages good football?
Benitez doesn't encourage good football, no. And I wouldn't say they played a lot of good football last season. They were involved in a lot of good games certainly, but their football wasn't particularly great.
And again, we need to go back to the pressure Mourinho was under to succeed. He didn't have the luxury of knowing he had time to lay the foundations of a team and build from there, Abramovich wanted trophies and results straight away. At United he'd be given that time, he'd inherit a very good squad and he'd take over from a very well run club. He'd thrive here.
who voted for McCleish?