Why did we hire him? Well, who else can we hire? I believe that United waited for pep till the last min before they grabbed jose.
You don't have to believe me. You could just look at him since madrid. Lampard loved him yeah but that was in his first stint with them. Even then, makelele said in his bio that jose did not seem to like that when the team was getting too much credit instead of him. So he tended to shake dressing room and break it a bit to show who the boss was. Well, not my words, it is similar to those. You could go read it I guess.
So what? Players welcoming their new managers. Happened with everyone even with moyes. Little to see in it.
How do I even know players wont be motivated after being called out? Well, look at how other successful managers do? You know we can even look at our own SAF. Of course managers lose shit sometimes. But often? not a good thing. SAF was a decent man manager with a few trophies right? You could have done in dressing room or in your office to motivate them.
Also look at his champion winning chelsea team last season. Biggest and most recent example. And he is starting to get into that kind of habit here again... too early for my liking.
There're so many managers out there...how can you simplify the decision to be a binary one? Moreover Pep and Jose have a very different understanding of the style of play. I like to think that the board took the strengths and weaknesses of the players into consideration, figuring out that Jose's vision suits them better. I do believe that Pep's decision to take over at City had been made clear for quite some time, so i disagree that United missed out on Pep last minute.
Some players say nasty stuff about Jose, others don't. That's how it is. To be fair, you do have a point there and it's important to take a look at every single message. Yeah, Jose wanted to change things at Chelsea MK1, but i'm having a hunch that it was because he thought that they were stagnating. I don't think he wants to be the center of attention, but that's just me having a hunch.
Furthermore you failed to add this:
Makelele:
"He's someone I respect, but who also made me suffer a great deal. But he is a winner. He knows football, he knows how to use players, how to motivate them, but also how to put them down. He's someone who's very calculating, vicious, ambitious.
Before you said this:
"For only one reason with jose. All about his ego. He is not pointing out player's fault to motivate them. He is doing it so that he can show people that it is not his fault and he knows it all."
Couldn't be the calling out not be part of his motivational skills?
De Gea stayed put. Last season he was close to joining Madrid, but after Jose was named new manager, he made clear that this time there won't be any drama. For me this means something, perhaps for you not.
At Chelsea, no one really knows what had happened. It could be the case that Eva's case unsettled the dressing room (Hazard felt guilty?), or a problem with Terry (back in 2007 media reported stuff), or just their thinking that they didn't need Jose anymore. Big characters such as Cech and Drogba had left the club, a year ago Lampard...they had fallen off a cliff and everyone was losing their minds. Hazard had problems before with managers (burger), Costa is a piece of work, Fabregas has history of being a backstabber (bad mood at Barca according to media), Oscar celebrated his first goal of the season with a gesture towards the manager on the first day of the season. Sure Jose has to shoulder some of the blame, he's the captain and in the end his 7th minute long rant was out of line just like him talking about 'betrayal' which probably cost him his job.
My point is Chelsea was a unique situation and hopefully he has learned something from it. At Real he also had problems, but they kept winning games. For exampel Varane is still grateful.
Varane:
"During my second year at Madrid, Jose Mourinho gave me a kick up the backside, i wasn't doing well, I wasn't managing to do what he wanted me to out on the pitch. So he chided me, saying: 'Why don't you run in training?' My first reaction was to mutter, 'Oh come on...' But I knew he was right, I had more to give."
Most of the Chelsea lads just come across bitter with the lil' dig here and there, at least last season.
As aformentioned, i don't have a problem with him calling out players, as long as it doesn't happen all the time and it's because they really messed up. The fact that he's also admitting his wrong doings from time to time does help, imo. But sure, you don't have to like it, keeping it behind closed doors isn't the worst thing to do, i guess.
Cheers!
