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Mourinho: ”Brentford is my biggest game since arriving at Spurs”
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Spurs were bottom of the league six months after that league cup win and aswell as sacking Ramos they also ripped up the whole football infastructure by sacking Comolli aswell.
Of course it worked out well in the end with getting Redknapp in but league cup certainly didn't push them on the next season.
I think Mourinho is just thinking it will given he won the league title in both seasons at Chelsea and europa at Man. United after winning league cup in each of those seasons.
Chuckling at how little Spurs will have done to make the final. Fair enough Chelsea was a pretty good win but all they've had since is Stoke and Brentford at home. Reminds me of us last season when we played Wolves and Liverpool under 12s in successive rounds but we at least had to get past a decent Leicester team over two legs in SF.
At least they'll be made to sweat against one of the Manchester clubs in the final.
didnt they get a bye as well
Would you take winning the league cup if it mean finishing 5th. And not winning the europa.
Has to be CL or bust surely especially with lack of NFL and matchday income at the new ground. Is Kane really staying at Spurs for life if he isn't playing champions league much for next few years?
I actually think in that scenario Kane would feel leading Spurs to a major trophy completes his era at the club and it's then time to move on to a club who are in champions league and can compete for that and win league titles.
He's getting to similar stage to Van Persie at Arsenal now I think. Next 6 months going to be huge for where he is in near future.
People give Shearer loads of stick for not winning much but it's forgotten he went to Newcastle after he'd already won a league title and Newcastle had just blown a 12 point lead when he signed so he had no reason to suspect they'd decline as they did.
They'd have smashed Orient 5-0 or something. Luck of the draw sometimes I guess.didnt they get a bye as well
no one knows that do they. Was a nice freebie to get through without even playing.
yeah, not even close.
Jose is like a pantomime villain.
Jose went full Jose at United, and he was 100% toxic at the end, and needed to go. However, he’s still charismatic and a great personality to have in the game. I just wouldn’t want him at United.
Moyes on the other hard... I actually despise him, and he’s a stain on our club history.
Finishing 2nd with us is his biggest achievement. Playing against Brentford with Spurs is his biggest challenge.
It's great that his last couple of years in club football are so damn epic.
It's great that his last couple of years in club football are so damn epic.
Same here. Despite all the shit LVG and Mou put us through I'm still fond of their time here. Moyes on the other hand, total disaster. The only season I will never want to look back on or have any memories of it whatsoever.
I didn't say they were. But they improved hugely under him under a small budget. Even reached a CL final. Everyone knows he did a really good job at Spurs even if he failed at winning a trophy.
Nice of him to say so - hopefully we can turn it into a nightmare for him but sounds like he won't be sending out the stiffs unfortunately.
Spent close to 350 million on transfers which I wouldn't call a small budget. His European record outside of that CL final appearance was average at best which included a few early exits from the Europa league.
Sounds like you know him very well!
I on the other hand still can’t work the guy out.
One minute I think ah he’s not that bad, the next I’ll think thank god we got rid of that prick.
There no doubt when things do eventually go sour with Spurs, they shall too call him the Toxic One.
Why look outside of a CL final appearance? For a club like Spurs reaching a final is unimaginable. They spent very little considering sales and improvement made under him. Much of their spending was done in the last year anyway and he had done a terrific job before that.
I don't know why people are unable to give other teams/managers credit. Our own ex players like Neville and co are able to.
BREAKING NEWS!
Manager says next game is the biggest game ever.
Manager says next game is the biggest game ever.
I believe him as Mourinho has always used the league cup to galvanise the squad. He did it at Chelsea and also here the year we won the Europa League.
He is right. If he can get top 4 and a trophy, in his first full season, the mission accomplished. He has won everywhere and I see no reason why he won't at Spurs.
Because that CL final appearance was a once off and Poch got the rub of the green in the group stages and against both Ajax and City on route to that final. Plenty of that money spent was in his first 3 season at the club.
His domestic cup record was 1 final appearance in 11 attempts, Jose can equal that by winning this evening.
He wants his players up for a potential banana skin. This is his best chance of winning a trophy for Spurs, after all.
They usually are? Rub of the green. Everyone needs that.
League cup final and CL final are not the same thing.
Indeed but the problem was they used up all of that rub of the green before the final.
League cup reference is towards the topic of this thread and Poch less than terrific domestic cup record.
This is the same guy who figured he could claim to have done a treble after winning the Community Shield, League Cup and Europa League. You've gotten a respectable double, why make an ass of yourself and include a platter you got for winning a glorified friendly to try and claim a treble?
Come on. Let’s not trying to be harsh here. The reason why they hired Jose is to win this trophy or EL. Something that Poch couldn’t do it. Big trophies like PL & CL were never their expectation.
Spot on. Sensible post.
Moyes is the most hated manager since Atkinson by far. As much as Mourinho is u likable and gets laughed at on here, I think he's seen as a nuisance and narcissistic. With Moyes, there seems to be visceral hatred.
Pochettino got to the league cup final in his first full season in charge of Spurs aswell.
If I saw Moyes in the street, I’d actually tell him how much of a complete tool he is, how hated he is and how he needs to apologise for what he did.
With Jose, I’d love to have a proper chat with him, he’s very charismatic and knowledgable.
I’d probably steer clear from LVG as he’s clearly nuts. I certainly don’t dislike him at all. Massive personality, even though his football will send you to sleep.
I don’t understand the problem with what he said. I remember he prioritised winning the league cup with both us and Chelsea. It’s important, and especially so considering Spurs usually win the square root of feck all.
It's the internet. If someone makes the most sensible point in the history of the world you'll find someone online reacting with mockery, outrage or anger. Not that Mourinho's point was quite as sensible as that.
It's his first semi final since being at Spurs, of course it's his biggest. Then if they get to the final that will be the biggest.
Not sure what he is meant to have said that's controversial?
Not sure what he is meant to have said that's controversial?
I think you represent the general consensus around here
His one and only domestic cup final appearance and losing it to Jose.
That's definitely it. And when they beat Brentford (against all odds of course) it will be all because of "the special one". This will obviously be a bigger achievement than Poch getting to the Champions League final. In fact, beating Brentford will now trump Mourinho's greatest ever achievement before of leading United to a 2nd place finish in the league...
I mean, for most of us, our opinion on José is the same as it was before he came here. That's why some of us never wanted him in the first place.
I think as a United fan it’s easy to overlook the importance of trophies like this to most clubs. It’s easy to write it off as “mickey mouse” with 20 league titles, most of which are in fairly recent memory, 3 European Cups etc but for fans of clubs who haven’t won a trophy in decades, it’s a chance to make history. Mou is bang on and I can’t imagine many Spurs fans will disagree.
Personally, I don't look down on any competition, really. I want to win whatever we can. Winning the league cup in 2017 was nice, and the final itself against Southampton was fun.
I think José and Spurs fans are right to be excited at the prospect of winning this. I'd love to see us win it again myself this season, too!
For what it's worth I'm pretty sure Chelsea players speak of the league cup win in 05 as giving them belief to go on and win the rest.
And United players also including Rolando about the FA Cup and League Cup wins in around 06
And United players also including Rolando about the FA Cup and League Cup wins in around 06
Although what he said is true but you'd just have to wonder if he will say the same thing if Spurs are up against a much tougher opposition tonight.
Full strength Spurs side as expected by Jose. Are Brentford sending out a strong side as well?