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First Team Serb
I wouldn't take Balotelli's outbursts seriously at all. He is not a star player for them, he may be in time but right now he doesn't feature regularly enough. You think the players care about Mourinho slagging off football? For all they know its just a media ploy, I think the fact that the players bleed and sweat for him as much as they did against Chelsea and Barcelona is testament to their faith in him.The whole Balotelli fiasco can't have done much for team spirit I'd imagine, or Mourinho's constant criticisms of him. Add to that the fact that Mourinho has constantly slagged off Italian football at every given chance.
It's not as if you can measure something as subjective as this but from an outsider looking in I can't see how those conditions are conducive to creating good team spirit, let alone the best in Europe, apart from Bayern. Obviously success can create a cohesion within the squad but to say that they must have good team spirit because they are winning is a little too simplistic.
Maybe, but its also a reason why they are winning. A good team spirit means a lot, theres no two ways about it. How do you think Turkey always seem to do well in Euro's and World Cup's? They haven't got the world class talent other nations do but the character and spirit of their team is equal to that in many ways.