José Mourinho

[Mole_Toonfan]

He's never lost a QF, but has lost 5 of his 7 semi-finals.

 

Very positive he'll lose his 6th semis this year. the prick.

 

PSG though, bottled it hard. Don't think I've ever seen Cavani have a top top game. Perhaps I should watch him more.

 

Cavani is struggling due to playing on the wing for ages and then coming back to the middle.

 

Same thing which happened to us with Ba and Cisse to a certain extent, he'll improve but problem is while Ibra is there he will likely play wide most of the time though.

 

Cracking player at Napoli though.

[LucaAltieri]

The presence of a mole at Real Madrid worried Mourinho so much that between 2011 and 2012 he ordered two sweeps of the hotel where the team stayed to search for hidden microphones. The investigations were unsuccessful. The Sheraton Mirasierra was apparently clean.

 

The control of information was another thing that deeply exercised Mourinho; he assigned a group of people to carry out a daily analysis of everything that the media said about him. Every morning Mourinho received a package containing the summary. His day began at 8am in his office at Valdebebas, studying videos, articles and broadcasts. He realised that he and his colleagues were not the only sources of the content, and that certain things that were being published did not exactly project an image of infallibility.

 

He began to suspect that there were leaks in his organisation. The proximity of the Clásico ramped up his sense of suspicion. According to club sources, the growing fear of leaks made Mourinho ask the directors to set up a study of the phone records of players and club employees. Some players were warned about this informally, as it was in their interest to be careful about whom they spoke to on their mobiles. The secrecy, however, did not prevent the boss’s intentions becoming widely known. In fact they were obvious in every training session.

 

At 5pm on 16 April 2011, shortly before Madrid’s home league match against Barcelona, the newspaper Marca reported in its online edition that Madrid would play Pepe in midfield, along with Khedira and Alonso. The team selection was unprecedented: Casillas, Ramos, Albiol, Carvalho, Marcelo, Pepe, Khedira, Alonso, Di María, Ronaldo and Benzema.

 

The 1-1 draw did not help the home team’s title chances but the crowd applauded their team off with a certain relief, Barça’s last couple of visits having ended with scores of 0–2 and 2–6, and filed out of the stadium reasonably content. Not so Mourinho.

 

He waited for the team in the dressing room before issuing a torrent of accusations and insults that distorted his face until he began to sob loudly: “You’re traitors. I asked you not to speak with anyone about the team selection but you’ve betrayed me. It shows that you’re not on my side. You’re sons of bitches.

 

“The only friend I have in this dressing room is Granero . . . and I’m not even sure that I can trust him any more. You’ve left me all on my own. You’re the most treacherous squad I’ve had in my life. Nothing more than sons of bitches.”

 

Casillas did not wait for the outburst to finish. He pretended that nothing was happening, turned around and went to the shower; he was not the only one who ignored the commotion. But Mourinho was filled with such intense emotion that he grabbed a can of Red Bull and hurled it against the wall. It exploded and drops of the sugary energy drink ran down the faces of those nearest to him.

 

Squatting on the ground — some say he was kneeling — he rattled off a further series of insults, then, getting up, he wiped the tears from his face and announced that he was going to speak with Pérez [Real’s president] and Sánchez [a director] because they would be able to find the mole. He promised reprisals and also made an analogy between martial law and football: “If I’m in Vietnam and I see you laugh at a mate, I’d grab a gun with my own hands and kill you. Now it’s you yourselves who have to look for the one that leaked the line-up.”

 

For everyone present it was difficult to work out if what they had seen was a real loss of emotional control or a piece of spontaneous theatre. By improvisation or calculation, Mourinho had ensured that everyone had been on edge. The team had been emotionally stirred up and he had adjusted the final details of his grand tactical plan. All his work, all his energy, the planning of more than nine months, were now focused on one goal: to reach a state of ecstasy in the final of the Copa del Rey in Valencia on 20 April.

 

The days were filled with impassioned talk until finally 20 April arrived. He talked about politics, about nationalism, about the inexorable division between the Castilian and Catalan peoples. He told the players that they had nothing in common with Barça. He knew, he said, because he had lived in Barcelona for many years, and was well aware of the local culture and the education that Catalan children receive. He explained that people like Puyol, Busquets, Xavi and Piqué had been taught from childhood to distance themselves from Spaniards such as Casillas, Ramos and Arbeloa.

 

He insisted that his players were wrong if they thought they had made friendships with the Barça players over their years together in the Spanish national team. The Barça players were not their friends because they took advantage of this supposed friendship by betraying the Madrid players, trying to snatch their prestige from them through their manipulation of the press.

 

They, the Madrid players, were not to participate in this charade any more. They must accept their role as bad guys and should refuse to acknowledge their rivals. Mourinho warned his players that if he saw any of them shaking hands outside of the formalities of the game they would be turning their backs on him — and on their team-mates. Anyone making any such friendly gesture towards the opposition ran the risk of becoming something very much like a traitor.

 

Biggest cunt in that story is Casillas.

[Flip]

Yeah, right, biggest cunt is the guy who walked away from listening to a completely deluded person.

[LucaAltieri]

Yeah, right, biggest cunt is the guy who walked away from listening to a completely deluded person.

 

Deluded?  The team selection got leaked! He was bang on!

 

And given his journalist girlfriend, it was probably Casillas that fucking did it!

 

Least he could do is take his bollocking like a grown up. Completely undermined his manager and his team.

[Jtm_92]

Yeah, right, biggest c*** is the guy who walked away from listening to a completely deluded person.

 

You don't think casillas had a role with mourinho falling out with the squad ?

[Ronaldo]

How's Casillas a cunt for that?

[Guest neesy111]

Casillas basically saw Mourinho for what he is.

[Hanshithispantz]

 

Such drama.

[LucaAltieri]

Casillas basically saw Mourinho for what he is.

 

[Guest firetotheworks]

Mourinho goes ape shit, Casillas walks away and Casillas is the cunt? Right oh.

[KaKa]

Pardew has made me detest Mourinho.

 

You just know Pardew was sitiign at home watching the game tonight, and touching himself.

 

Fantasizing that Chelsea's win, and pretty dull approach justified the shit he serves up.

 

Delusional moron.

[Guest hatem garrincha]

Pardew has made me detest Mourinho.

 

You just know Pardew was sitiign at home watching the game tonight, and touching himself.

 

Fantasizing that Chelsea's win, and pretty dull approach justified the s*** he serves up.

 

Delusional moron.

 

[Disco]

Pardew has made me detest Mourinho.

 

You just know Pardew was sitiign at home watching the game tonight, and touching himself.

 

Fantasizing that Chelsea's win, and pretty dull approach justified the shit he serves up.

 

Delusional moron.

 

You really need to stop referring to yourself in the 3rd person. Especially when it's so obvious.

[KaKa]

Pardew has made me detest Mourinho.

 

You just know Pardew was sitiign at home watching the game tonight, and touching himself.

 

Fantasizing that Chelsea's win, and pretty dull approach justified the s*** he serves up.

 

Delusional moron.

 

You really need to stop referring to yourself in the 3rd person. Especially when it's so obvious.

 

Another Pardew lover. Fucking awesome. Just go away.

[Disco]

Pardew has made me detest Mourinho.

 

You just know Pardew was sitiign at home watching the game tonight, and touching himself.

 

Fantasizing that Chelsea's win, and pretty dull approach justified the s*** he serves up.

 

Delusional moron.

 

You really need to stop referring to yourself in the 3rd person. Especially when it's so obvious.

 

Another Pardew lover. Fucking awesome. Just go away.

 

Please stop posting.

[KaKa]

Pardew has made me detest Mourinho.

 

You just know Pardew was sitiign at home watching the game tonight, and touching himself.

 

Fantasizing that Chelsea's win, and pretty dull approach justified the s*** he serves up.

 

Delusional moron.

 

You really need to stop referring to yourself in the 3rd person. Especially when it's so obvious.

 

Another Pardew lover. f***ing awesome. Just go away.

 

Please stop posting.

 

I will if you do first.

[Disco]

And takeaway a rare outlet of humour on here?* I couldn't do that.

 

not my posts

[Wullie]

Take one for the team Disco.

[Belfast Mags]

[The College Dropout]

For once I agree with Knaka. Pardew's a shit Mourinho student.

[Shearergol]

Tried to hog the limelight.... again.

 

Managers need to be strong personalities. See SAF, SBR, etc.

 

Whether you like his shtick or not, he gets it done.

 

Never doubted his quality, tbh. It was HTT who rated Martin O'Neill ahead of him.

 

Eh, I have never rated O'Niell When he was manager of Celtic and linked with us I was all no no no.

 

As I recall you hated MON. It was all about Big Sam for you

[Dinho lad]

When Mourinho was still at Porto and beginning to make a name of himself.

[Guest Howaythetoon]

Tried to hog the limelight.... again.

 

Managers need to be strong personalities. See SAF, SBR, etc.

 

Whether you like his shtick or not, he gets it done.

 

Never doubted his quality, tbh. It was HTT who rated Martin O'Neill ahead of him.

 

Eh, I have never rated O'Niell When he was manager of Celtic and linked with us I was all no no no.

 

As I recall you hated MON. It was all about Big Sam for you

 

Aye, that's right.

[Guest Howaythetoon]

When Mourinho was still at Porto and beginning to make a name of himself.

 

I can't remember that like. I've never rated O'Niell as anything other than average even when he was doing well at Leicester and Celtic. Even when he was finishing 6th with Villa I would never have entertained the idea of him as our manager.

 

As for Mourinho, the man is a genius when it comes to football management and coaching. He would win silverware at any club he joined.

[Flip]

When Mourinho was still at Porto and beginning to make a name of himself.

 

I can't remember that like. I've never rated O'Niell as anything other than average even when he was doing well at Leicester and Celtic. Even when he was finishing 6th with Villa I would never have entertained the idea of him as our manager.

 

As for Mourinho, the man is a genius when it comes to football management and coaching. He would win silverware at any club he joined.

 

He wouldn't. I can bet you tons of money he wouldn't win silverware with 90% of the football teams in the world. And the other 10% I'd promise you would be already top clubs in their respective leagues.