Got it absolutely spot on with the introduction of Modric.
Mourinho | New old Chelsea manager
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I respect what he's said and done tonight. Not many would come out and say the better team lost...as the opposing manager.
His view on the red after being pushed about it was a bit 'technical', though.
His view on the red after being pushed about it was a bit 'technical', though.
Very un-Mourinho like in his post match interview, is he sweetening up our board and fans in anticipation of a summer move?
You do realise that he will have talked to the players before and after the interview? I doubt many players even bothered watching, he would of congratulated them in private
He was being completely disingenuous as usual - everything is said for effect.Meanwhile, over at Marca he's saying this: "Ferguson debe sentirse igual que yo con la expulsión de Pepe ante el Barça". Basically, now SAF knows how I felt when Pepe was sent off against Barça.
Anyone who takes his comments at face value is being naiveMourinho only looks out for number one, whichever way possible.
Obviously. It was so out of character for him to say something like that.
Normally it would have been the usual "blah blah two good teams, I didnt see the incident, those things happen and its up to the team to deal with them the best they can. we put away our chances and deserved to advance in the end"
Why are people saying it's out of character? Am I going mad to think he's said this before?
He knows it was a shit decision and they got lucky, but he said what he said as a smokescreen to avoid slagging off a ref who has handed his side the win and who will probably ref them later on in the tournament. It's exactly in his character to do things like this, and fair play to him.
He knows it was a shit decision and they got lucky, but he said what he said as a smokescreen to avoid slagging off a ref who has handed his side the win and who will probably ref them later on in the tournament. It's exactly in his character to do things like this, and fair play to him.
TBF to him he genuinely has respect for SAF . Probably didn't want to rub salt on the wounds of his friend.
He won the game so its easier for him to be "classier".
He's a bit of a cnut and he can feck off if he doesn't like it at Madrid. I get the feeling this man can't be happy as long as he isn't worshipped so it can feed his massive ego. (Where have we heard that one before?)
Oh and Nev, there are many Madrid supporters who don't want him here but only because of his non stop flirting with other teams, not the other way around.
I agree that the ref ruined the game and that has taken the shine off our win, but why the feck does he belittle the team for?
We've played Man United away ffs, it was never going to be a walk in the park. Seriously some of his comments feel like a slap in the face for us fans.
Oh and Nev, there are many Madrid supporters who don't want him here but only because of his non stop flirting with other teams, not the other way around.
I agree that the ref ruined the game and that has taken the shine off our win, but why the feck does he belittle the team for?
We've played Man United away ffs, it was never going to be a walk in the park. Seriously some of his comments feel like a slap in the face for us fans.
That's the thing, people here are looking at it only from the perspective of their own team. He loves United so he's a classy guy. What about the teams that pay his salary?
I wouldn't be happy if I was a Real fan. You've got through, he should be looking forward to the next round not slagging the team off. Real played well enough in both legs really.
Meanwhile, over at Marca he's saying this: "Ferguson debe sentirse igual que yo con la expulsión de Pepe ante el Barça". Basically, now SAF knows how I felt when Pepe was sent off against Barça.
Anyone who takes his comments at face value is being naive
He's not lying though, he was fecked over by the ref and so were we.
Arruda, it isn't abnormal for Fergie to come out many times and praise the opposition and say that United were lucky to win.
Doesn't mean he's disrespecting his club.
He slagged his team off?!
Someone link me to this part of the interview, I must've missed it.
Fans that get annoyed at their players/managers being objective annoy me tbf. They're presumably the same people that flood to the RAWK thread to laugh at Liverpool managers pandering to their fans barmy expectations and the fans who hounded out Hodgson for being realistic.
Football fans are generally spastics who find fault in the slightest bit of objectivity.
Football fans are generally spastics who find fault in the slightest bit of objectivity.
Vato thinks the team was belittled, SuecoGitano thinks he's a dick. He can't get his own fans to like him after a win.
It's not a comparable situation with Fergie, specially as this might not be abnormal for SAF but it certainly is with Mourinho. He's flirting with another team obviously, this isn't tolerated with players why should it be with managers?
Vato has also expressed similar sentiments to Maureen regarding the game. But Maureen is expected to lie to the press to keep fans feeling special, even if the fans themselves agree with his sentiments?
Football fans in being over sensitive and hypocritical in attitudes to their idols behaviour shocker.
Who cares what RM fans think of his comments anyway?! We're mainly Utd fans on here and gave our opinions on his comments, which were both truthful and classy.
He wasn't 'being objective', he was playing Mr Clever cnut ( as opposed to Mr Stupid cnut as played by Roy Keane).
You don't have a manager that tries to piss off the fans and the board at every opportunity though. I do agree with his comments that United was the better team in the first half by the way. That doesn't mean the second half was going to be a copy of it though, we might have scored with 11 United players on the pitch aswell, you never know this.
I'm not implying Mourinho should lie. Just said that he has an agenda with United and that's the reason he didn't lie, or at least the reason why he shifted the focus from an important away win against a very though opponent. Well, I'm usually a bit confused in these fast threads, but that's my main sentiment.
His assumption that they would lose the game without Nani's sending off is ridiculous, and bordering on arse licking. It wasn't an extremely unbalanced game, United was better but ahead by just one goal and with the time remaining, the firepower Real has, and even the positive way Modric entered the game, who the feck can know what would happen?
Marca is 100% behind it. Snippets:
- We were the better team
- Nani was wrongly sent off
- We should have had a peno on Evra
- Rafael's handball wasn't a penalty
- Madrid got found out
- SAF outsmarted Mourinho
- We would have won if we had just gone gung ho at them after the red instead of sitting back (easy to say after and probably not true)
Much better to agree with it all.
Completely agree with you. Even without the red card, Madrid were just starting to come into the game. There is no way they would have gone down 1-0 without an onslaught in the closing stages.
As a Chelsea fan hoping for his return in the summer, I'm not sure what to make of all his comments and conduct tonight.
Of course you might've won vato. Real were excellent tonight, incredibly efficient and made complete use of the advantage they gained. I think its more of an effort to just keep a healthy relationship with Sir Alex. Very unusual of Mourinho but SAF and him do go way back so..
Can't wait til Mourinho leaves RM so they can get used to exiting the CL in the second round ever year again.
Thier fans will moan about literally anything and everything.
Thier fans will moan about literally anything and everything.
Weren't the fans tonight singing for him? I thought I heard repeated Jose Mourinho chants. Still must have a lot of backing. Be interesting to see if he wins them their 10th European Cup what the reaction will be? Will Perez still get rid of him?
With his comments, I wouldn't read much into it. He was being honest and respectful to a good friend. Nothing more, in my opinion.
With his comments, I wouldn't read much into it. He was being honest and respectful to a good friend. Nothing more, in my opinion.
I agree with the sentiment that we don't know what would've happened. You/Real could well have won with all things equal. But I still don't see the annoyance at his magnanimous attitude. I feel prouder when Fergie comes out and admits we were lucky than when he's beligerantly bullish. It side steps the kind of partizan hilarity we all take at the kind of Dalglish/Rogers form of management. That could be just me.
Mourinho's always someone I've quite liked, because he's always seemed to be someone who's honest with his emotions. A lot of the time he's OTT, but I generally feel he doesn't shirk voicing his opinions for the sake of diplomacy, and I respect that a lot more in the inherently stupid business of millionaires kicking rubber around grass for the benefit of knee-jerk over emotional bell ends.
He'd probably walk out. If he wins the CL this season, he'll have no reason to stay and he'll leave on the high of being the manager that brought them the 10 European Cup.
I don't see him at Real next season, I just hope he doesn't go to City.
feck you mourinho
you can shove your sympathetic words up your stupid arse
and all of you saying he was class, because in victory he said that the best team won, have forgoten the kind of a cnut he can be
you can shove your sympathetic words up your stupid arse
and all of you saying he was class, because in victory he said that the best team won, have forgoten the kind of a cnut he can be
I'll readily admit that I've always had a man-crush on Mourinho.
I hope he's our next manager, and he's been trying hard enough over the last year to set himself up to come here and he's never actively done that with any club.
feck off JM, he's just saying this to light a fire under his team so they are more prepared for bayern.
this isn't genuine. piss off. take your turkish bumboys with you.
this isn't genuine. piss off. take your turkish bumboys with you.
I'm exactly the same, I hate it when managers try to sweettalk the fans when you can see that what they're saying is complete bullshit.
With Mourinho it's a bit different, his countless flirting is a recurring event, so what has pissed me off a bit is not the actual slagging off the performance but more the reminder that he's leaving soon with his "I will be back, coaching in England" one day. How ridiculous it even might be seeing as I know that he's a dead man walking.
As a caveat to my last post, I agree that we as United fans are very lucky with SAF, because it bypasses our sillyness regarding managers not living up to our expectations. I fully expect whoever our next manager is to be subject to a similar kind of spoiled expectation when he doesn't deliver trophies instantly.
I'll be equally condemning of them. As I am Arsenal fans who want Wenger out, or Chelsea fans too scared to voice their boos at the real person messing up their management.
I'll be equally condemning of them. As I am Arsenal fans who want Wenger out, or Chelsea fans too scared to voice their boos at the real person messing up their management.
Fair enough actually. That is probably quite annoying. I'll take back half of my Madridista criticism if it's largely that.
Deep inside maybe Vato loves the special one and doesn't want him to leave 
. Hence gets jealous when he flirts with other clubs. Cute.
. Hence gets jealous when he flirts with other clubs. Cute.Deep inside maybe Vato loves the special one and doesn't want him to leave
There is some truth in this, I was a very happy man the day he got appointed. Same for the majority of Madrid fans, at least every one I know. I don't know where these stories came from that we don't appreciate him.
Now you know how we felt with Ronaldo & your lot for 3 years. It's fecking annoying.
If it winds Madrid fans up to see Mourinho flirting with us (and, to a lesser extent, Ronaldo not celebrating and being coy regarding coming back) then whoopy fecking comeuppance.
If it winds Madrid fans up to see Mourinho flirting with us (and, to a lesser extent, Ronaldo not celebrating and being coy regarding coming back) then whoopy fecking comeuppance.
Yeah, good point. Altough Mourinho leaving wouldn't be as lucrative for us as Ronaldo was for you guys.
Out of interest, do you want Mourinho to manage United when Fergie retires?
Out of interest, do you want Mourinho to manage United when Fergie retires?