Jose Mourinho Sack Watch | Sacked per 19-04

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Eckers99

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As if being the most successful manager since Fergie is, in itself, worth celebrating. Yeah, he outperformed Moyes, LvG and, so far, Ole, spent a truckload of cash, lost the dressing room, disenfranchised the fans and made out that he was overacheiving at a mediocre club. Woopy fecking doo.
 

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Finishing 2nd with Utd was his biggest achievement but now he's saying finishing 4th with Spurs will be his biggest achievement. I'm sensing a pattern here....

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"Finishing 17th with West Ham will be my biggest achievement"
 
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Spurs have been a little unlucky in the strikers department, to be fair. Losing Kane for the entire campaign and then their only other consistent goal scorer busting his arm is bound to have a negative effect.

They look toothless going forward, a far cry from the side Poch had built. Jose is doing his work well.
 

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Spurs have been a little unlucky in the strikers department, to be fair. Losing Kane for the entire campaign and then their only other consistent goal scorer busting his arm is bound to have a negative effect.

They look toothless going forward, a far cry from the side Poch had built. Jose is doing his work well.
Part of that is Jose's fault, he didn't rotate the strike at all. Played Kane in pretty much every game despite him looking like a walking injury. He was poor at rotating players with us too.

He's a smart fella is Jose but his football has been left behind by the modern style of teams.
 

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Honestly, how draining is this man? Jesus. I feel sorry for every player who he has coached in the last 5 years.
 

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Sure Jose got us trophies,and he'll get a good amount of credit for that even though the style of football on show was largely underwhelming, but its just nice to see his cantankerous mood ,his miserable f*cking face and his toxic comments no longer associated with our club. Its (still) a breath of fresh air.
 

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Absolutely love seeing Mou lose, while I shouldn't enjoy someone's failures.
Seems that this will be his shortest stint here. With us, atleast he played acceptable quality football in the 1st season apart from a couple of games. At Spurs, it seems he's already the 2018 Jose
 

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Miguel Delaney summed it up well.

 

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Chelsea have Arrizabalaga, Zouma, Gilmour on the bench and Mount, Kovacic, Barkley all starting.

Poulsen
 

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To be fair we are all putting expectations on this stint before summer.
Spurs fans would have told us a different story.
We have been saying we have had a very light squad for the last 2 or 3 years. Jose coming in hasnt changed anything apart from having even worse injuries.
 

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I was a big Mourinho supporter and was happy when he came here. I loved his Inter team and his Chelsea team and was focused on that.

It was a gutting realization when I saw this bitter, grumpy man who was obsessed with himself and not the club.

I didn’t expect it at all, and didn’t want to believe it. It took a long time to accept that the old Special One swagger wasn’t coming back and that he didn’t have the mentality anymore or any notion of modernizing the way he played.

I imagine many Spurs fans will take a long time to accept the reality. But they haven’t got Inter Mou, Chelsea Mou, or even Real Mou.

They have a Mou with a massive chip on his shoulder who cares much more about self preservation than the club, or the players, he is managing.
 

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Losing Son might cost Jose his job sooner than later. Maybe he'll have his famous meltdown before the end of this season :lol:

Can't say I'm not looking forward to it.
 

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When LvG had no strikers due to injury he looked to the academy and called up a player that only had two under-21 starts at the time.

That player is now one of the best English players around and United’s #10
 

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I’d like to read more about his Madrid stint, it fascinates me. Seems to have totally changed him.
A while back I went trawling through Guardian articles from around the time, it's fairly shocking the extent to which he went to war with everyone, including (and most often) his own team. Makes his stint at United look tame by comparison, as disgraceful as he was.

Can't believe we ever hired him looking back - admittedly I didn't know how bad it was at Madrid but then hiring our managers isn't my job.
 

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A while back I went trawling through Guardian articles from around the time, it's fairly shocking the extent to which he went to war with everyone, including (and most often) his own team. Makes his stint at United look tame by comparison, as disgraceful as he was.

Can't believe we ever hired him looking back - admittedly I didn't know how bad it was at Madrid but then hiring our managers isn't my job.
He clearly hasn't been the same after the Madrid experience. Something broke him in over there, the negative side of his personality took over in some ways. It must have been stressful beyond belief trying to best Guardiola's Barsa side.
 

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He clearly hasn't been the same after the Madrid experience. Something broke him in over there, the negative side of his personality took over in some ways. It must have been stressful beyond belief trying to best Guardiola's Barsa side.
Madrid definitely damaged him and he's never been the same manager since. I think it wasn't only having to encounter a squad for the first time in his life who he couldn't make his men and who eventually fell out with him but also having to so often frame himself as the opposition to Guardiola and Barcelona.

People often refer to Mourinho as pragmatic, which I think he was until Madrid in that he could be adaptable in the way his teams played, but he's not pragmatic anymore, he's now completely wedded to negative, react football. He's no more pragmatic than someone like Guardiola, it's just his vision of how to play the game is totally different.
 

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It must be depressing playing for him nowadays. Always complaining about something. I do however give him props for not starting Dele alli today. Talk about a limited player.
 

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When LvG had no strikers due to injury he looked to the academy and called up a player that only had two under-21 starts at the time.

That player is now one of the best English players around and United’s #10
Agree completely.
 

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I have never enjoyed watching a Mourinho team and if it has now got to the point where he doesn’t guarantee trophies I assume his next stop will be Portugal manager (with Ronaldo retired, so expectations fully managed) and then off into the sunset.
 

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Would not be the least surprised if he left at the end of the season.

He’s naive to think Levy will give him an open chequebook
 
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