José Mourinho

[jdckelly]

Did he really just claim that he wasn't celebrating the goal when he ran across the touchline with his arms up?  Apparently he was actually just off to tell some players they now needed to change tactics.. is this fucker just a compulsive lier or what?

which should if UEFA had any balls get him some kind of punishment since he left the technical area to do it, I won't hold my breath

[Ronaldo]

Massive difference in management style, obviously. But both are excellent at motivating their players. Both strong personalities.

 

Every manager working at the top end of Europe's top leagues is a strong personality.

[Disco]

Massive difference in management style, obviously. But both are excellent at motivating their players. Both strong personalities.

 

Every manager working at the top end of Europe's top leagues is a strong personality.

 

a lot of them manage it without all the shenanigans too. Hence why I dislike the SBR comparison.

[Ronaldo]

Most of them manage it. Most of them have established themselves in football through being leaders as players. Leaders are rarely as petty as that little bastard.

[LucaAltieri]

Massive difference in management style, obviously. But both are excellent at motivating their players. Both strong personalities.

 

Every manager working at the top end of Europe's top leagues is a strong personality.

 

To a point. And some will use it to get performances out of their players, ie. Mourinho, SBR, SAF, etc. And others will alienate them ie. AVB, O'Neil, Souness, Dalglish, etc.

 

Mourinho's players love him just as much as SBRs. The man is doing something right.

[Wullie]

Massive difference in management style, obviously. But both are excellent at motivating their players. Both strong personalities.

 

Every manager working at the top end of Europe's top leagues is a strong personality.

 

To a point. And some will use it to get performances out of their players, ie. Mourinho, SBR, SAF, etc. And others will alienate them ie. AVB, O'Neil, Souness, Dalglish, etc.

 

Mourinho's players love him just as much as SBRs. The man is doing something right.

 

Real Madrid's players absolutely hated his guts didn't they?

[Cronky]

One shrewd tactician who's prepared to back his ideas, and more importantly he gets his players to believe in them.

 

The last ten minutes was nothing but long balls at every opportunity, but they were committed to the tactic and in the end, it paid off.

[jdckelly]

Massive difference in management style, obviously. But both are excellent at motivating their players. Both strong personalities.

 

Every manager working at the top end of Europe's top leagues is a strong personality.

 

To a point. And some will use it to get performances out of their players, ie. Mourinho, SBR, SAF, etc. And others will alienate them ie. AVB, O'Neil, Souness, Dalglish, etc.

 

Mourinho's players love him just as much as SBRs. The man is doing something right.

 

Real Madrid's players absolutely hated his guts didn't they?

most of them

[LucaAltieri]

Massive difference in management style, obviously. But both are excellent at motivating their players. Both strong personalities.

 

Every manager working at the top end of Europe's top leagues is a strong personality.

 

To a point. And some will use it to get performances out of their players, ie. Mourinho, SBR, SAF, etc. And others will alienate them ie. AVB, O'Neil, Souness, Dalglish, etc.

 

Mourinho's players love him just as much as SBRs. The man is doing something right.

 

Real Madrid's players absolutely hated his guts didn't they?

 

Fell out with a couple of them, to my knowledge. Vast majority of players have had not a bad thing to say about him. Inter & Chelsea in particular.

[Ronaldo]

They got tired of being told not to try anything too ambitious at home to the likes of Getafe.

[Disco]

One shrewd tactician who's prepared to back his ideas, and more importantly he gets his players to believe in them.

 

The last ten minutes was nothing but long balls at every opportunity, but they were committed to the tactic and in the end, it paid off.

 

Long / direct ball, if it is working, isn't the crime so many people make out.

 

The same in that Pep teams aren't boring for keeping the ball as a means of defending.

[sempuki]

Will do damage next season when they get a couple of world class forwards. Doubt they will win anything this season.

[Guest neesy111]

Mourinho is considered a failure at Madrid.

[LucaAltieri]

One shrewd tactician who's prepared to back his ideas, and more importantly he gets his players to believe in them.

 

The last ten minutes was nothing but long balls at every opportunity, but they were committed to the tactic and in the end, it paid off.

 

Long / direct ball, if it is working, isn't the crime so many people make out.

 

The same in that Pep teams aren't boring for keeping the ball as a means of defending.

 

Yeah, that irritates me.

 

Long ball is only boring when it's plan A, B, and C.

[Hughesy]

Mourinho is absolutely class man,  prick or not. Winners often are bell ends. I've got a lot of time for him, spoke very highly of SBR, he's alright in my books

 

Spot on.

[Flip]

Mourinho is absolutely class man,  prick or not. Winners often are bell ends.

 

Don't know any manager that is a bell-end to the degree of Mourinho tbf.

[Guest neesy111]

Mourinho is absolutely class man,  prick or not. Winners often are bell ends.

 

Don't know any manager that is a bell-end to the degree of Mourinho tbf.

 

[triggs]

Mourinho is absolutely class man,  prick or not. Winners often are bell ends.

 

Don't know any manager that is a bell-end to the degree of Mourinho tbf.

 

That's only because he thinks he is Mourinho

[Flip]

Mourinho is absolutely class man,  prick or not. Winners often are bell ends.

 

Don't know any manager that is a bell-end to the degree of Mourinho tbf.

 

 

Fuck. Re-wrote my post 3 times, and forgot winning before manager.

[Trumpet]

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.

[Guest firetotheworks]

Me, me, everyone look at me!

[Jtm_92]

there is a book by diego torres about mourinho at madrid, there was one moment after barca beat real, he got so angry he called all of his players  traitors and sons of bitches, I will try and find translated extracts as the book is in portuguese.

[Jtm_92]

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.

[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.

[Hughesy]

That sounds like a load of bollocks.