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Mourinho to United | Officially Announced
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Great post, it won't quote get through to the incredibly large self righteous head of the person you've responded to but maybe others will wise up.
I've always had the impression that Mourinho's players tend to love working with him, can't recall many instances of players slating him after his departures.
He is funny up to a point, but then he become an absolute menace. Its only a mater of time until be becomes toxic.
Players rarely slate former managers.
Apart from ours
Players hating Mourinho is a load of crap. Mourinho integrates himself as part of the group and many players have commented about this side of Mourinho almost giving off a family feel between the players and himself.
@Mockney picking up those little, red alerts pronto. Here's another, cracking post.
It's doubtful but I hope there's a press conference for him tomorrow
I agree with this.
Not having people saying Fergie has stooped as low as some of the things Mourinho has done in the past.
That being said, we all just have to hope that things go smoothly in his three years here and he learns from his mistakes. Even though I'm not holding my breath, I'm choosing to ignore his past shenanigans and just focus on the football.
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Perhaps, but LVG had a world class XI of ex-players hating hi, from Barca through to Bayern and now, apparently, us.
I'm not a fan of Mourinho's personality by any means, but his relationship with his players is something I've been impressed with since his first stint with Chelsea.
We really don't need to shit all over fergie every time we need to make excuses for mourinho, fergie is a man with class that had his bad moments like every human being, mourinho is a full time twat.
The main difference between Mou and Cantona/Keane/SAF is, what gets your focus.
Yes, all 3 of the above mentioned were great heroes for us, but sometimes cnutish as well. But they were our cnuts, so we focused on their positives.
On the other hand Mourinho was always a rival, and that's why the cuntness got the focus. People looking for more reasons to dislike/hate him. And whenever he did something, they would be telling themselves "aha, see that, I was right to hate him."
Who is or was the biggest cnut among them doesn't really matter. Is it even measurable? And even if Mou would be the least one among them, he'd be still the one most remembered for it, because that's the only thing our minds were focused on before his arrival.
Yes, all 3 of the above mentioned were great heroes for us, but sometimes cnutish as well. But they were our cnuts, so we focused on their positives.
On the other hand Mourinho was always a rival, and that's why the cuntness got the focus. People looking for more reasons to dislike/hate him. And whenever he did something, they would be telling themselves "aha, see that, I was right to hate him."
Who is or was the biggest cnut among them doesn't really matter. Is it even measurable? And even if Mou would be the least one among them, he'd be still the one most remembered for it, because that's the only thing our minds were focused on before his arrival.
Yep. Plus Fergie never lost the dressing room and never finished lower than 3rd when all the apparently so bad behavior happened.
Mourinho 's behavior last season however contributed to a title defence twice as bad as Moyes'.
The fact is Mourinho is the closest manager at the moment to SAF.
Nothing anyone can say, good or bad, could possibly cleanse the deep sense of masochistic shame I feel for falling off my late-night-Caf-rant-wagon with such giddy abandon.
I do it to myself, I do. And that's what really hurts.
Assuming he signs Friday or Saturday, how much do you think it will overshadow the champions league final?
Depends on whether Simeone tries to nut Varane again, I suppose.
I hope Mourinho can see though rooney's god awful 3 years and we start to phase out rooney, because we don't want to start accommodating players, here's hope Mourinho does not keep rooney week in week out
One of these guys is a prick and the other two are heroes.
To be fair Eric is a Hero there, that was when he invented the let's kick racism out of football campaign.
They will show live press conference in the San Siro, kick off will be delayed and Simeone and Zidane will be in tears by witnessing history being made in Manchester.
A lot of the JoMophobic rhetoric I've seen around here talks about his past digressions like they exist in a bubble, like he just acts out for the sake of acting out and that's that. They ignore the fact that since leaving Portugal he's continuously strolled into some of the most high pressure jobs in modern football, during a period where the stakes haven't been higher for managers and consistently succeeded in a way that hasn't really been replicated since. He's worked under some of the most batshit, unstable owners in recent history and still managed to maintain that consistency and that's got to take its toll on a person, right? How do you think Fergie would have fared under Florentino Pérez and the weird politically charged atmosphere of the Real Madrid dressing room? Sure he'd win them a title or two but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be smooth sailing for him either. Same goes for Abramovich and his constant meddling with team affairs - do you think Fergie would come away from Chelsea Football Club unscathed? I doubt it. Take the visible toll the Barcelona job took on Pep and too and apply that to your arguments about how much of a cock Mourinho is because it's all relative. Of course none of this is justification for some of the crazy shit Jose has pulled over the years, especially the Eva Carneiro mess, but it's worth considering when stringing together silly arguments about the celestial bodies of Roy Keane and Sir Alex Ferguson.
Sure, but take Chelsea. The same regime had so many managers, yes, they all got sacked, but none of them managed to do this badly and lose the players, not even Avram Grant. Even Benitez despite all the abuse he got did well.
Even worse regarding last season is that Mourinho actually won the league with the same club / players, so for sure he had his players ' respect and then lost the same players within months. That's on him, you can't blame other ppl for that kind of mess.
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TBF no Chelsea manager had ever bothered rejuvinating the side by getting rid of the old talent to make space to younger talent either. That can be a bit of a problem with so many mercenaries around
A freaking pioneer, and he still gets stick... For shame.
Fantastic post @Mockney
woohoo!!!!! Love it! Thanks mate!!
JoMoPhobics won't like it though
@Niall / Mods: Please you know you wanna do it as a celebratory gesture when the official announcement comes!!!
@Mockney's post did something weird to my ovaries
I guess I'm the only one who's loved Mourinho for years and has been begging the Football Gods for him to succeed Sir Alex.
3 years in the making this, and I couldn't be happier
3 years in the making this, and I couldn't be happier
Where the hell have you been the past three years?I guess I'm the only one who's loved Mourinho for years and has been begging the Football Gods for him to succeed Sir Alex.
3 years in the making this, and I couldn't be happier
Of course you can, at least in part. Plenty of Chelsea players came into the season in poor shape, players who were a part of Mourinho's first eleven (Diego Costa as the prime example). I think they became complacent and once Mourinho demanded more of them, they went on strike. The mistake Mourinho committed was sticking to them, trusting them for far too long, but at the same time, if so many of your players are not performing, then there are hardly enough alternatives available.
It's not as if Hiddink went on some magical run after him either. I think they had 18 points in 18 games when he took over and they finished the season with 50 out of 38, giving them 32 over their next 20. That's 1.6 points per game and over the course of an entire season would give them 60.8 points. That'd place them 8th, just out of the Europa League spots.
Pelegrini was depicted wrongly here. Should have been Pep pulling his leg. He was doing not too bad with City until the mid season announcement.
All their cries for Man United to fire LVG since December is not because they love Man United, it's because of this, this hollywood reality show. Mainly the only reason I don't want Mourinho, I don't want us to dance to the tune of the media but at this point, there is no one else out there that is top level.
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