Jose Mourinho | Sacked by Roma

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Nearly all managers change clubs every few years and all spells will have negatives if you look for them yet only Mourinho is being looked at with such vitriol.

Ramos doesnt sky a penalty vs Bayern and doesnt score a last gasp leveler vs Atletico and we are looking at a very different Real Madrid recent history. It is very fine margins.
Ref correctly awards Scholes goal vs Porto at Old Trafford, there might not have been a Mourinho. The fine margins that made him a top manager is also why he is getting fired.

The difference is that very few top managers leave such a trail of fighting key players, management, insulting other coaches, match officials and lately getting more red cards than even players on the field who are involved physically
 

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Of course he's planning to go to Saudi Arabia next, imagine the loot there after being sacked early from his contract.

The shift to pressing and possessional football has completely left him behind. His teams used to be energetic and would often have the strongest first XI in that league, but since most teams press nowadays what does that leave him? Good tactical nous but often poor footballing style, above average in the transfer market but not great, and worst of all an annoying personality that alienates and burns bridges everywhere he goes.

I can't see any top club going anywhere near him anymore so he's likely to take jobs in the oil leagues now or if he's lucky get drafted into a club in crisis Allardyce style.
He was always arrogant with an edge but it felt like that didn't come at the expense of his players. The last season Real Madrid changed him, from that point he had some success like winning the league with Chelsea and a few cups but he seemed to get more like a parody of himself. More extremes in everything, more deranged and paranoid, well aware of his celebrity and playing up to it. His last year at United in particular was an astute exercise in self-protectionism at the expense of the club, so much so that his narrative from that time gets pushed to protect him. I always thought he'd be good at politics if he maintains a cultish following to this day, no matter how many times he gets sacked.
 

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Always thought he was so confident in his younger days but so insecure now. He went from talking about how good he is to how good he was.
 

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Manager bounce is the most underated coach of all time.
Playing 3 of the bottom 4 in a row helps too!

Still, they're very much in the mix for top 4 now, largely because everyone outside of the top 3 are ridiculously inconsistent. Tough fixtures for them though towards the end of the season.
 

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Mourinho to Liverpool please, for the Souness-esque deconstruction of the squad.
 

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I for one would love to see him back managing United.
Why, so he can eat the words he used towards AW? He was an overall failure here, not helped by the board but he just seemed to not have a fight in him to make things work when they were going wrong.