Had there been a gun on the table that may have ended with blood on the walls.
100 per cent agree. Answer in Portuguese and make them translate it. They are gonna write what they want anyway so why not?He should spend the rest of the season fecking with them like that. Answer questions with questions, turn up when he feels like it, answer in different languages. Why should he give them anything at this point?
Really rip the arse out of it and use a translator. Actually use two translators and answer the questions in different languages. Really make them work for it, see how many languages he can work into one conference.
Its a game of guessing at this point.What's Jose got to do with it? You mean to tell me the press show other managers more respect when they smell blood? Let's all laugh at that
Are you new to how the media operate or something? They make you a god or treat you like trash depending on what will sell more papers the next minute. They are just seagulls who follow the trawler.
Good. Either way they're gonna twist the things he say. No point in giving anything to the press.
No sympathy for the journalist from meExactly, more contempt the better,
Not like the Media need Jose there to make up quotes, or twist his words anyway.
He certainly hasn't turned me against himself. Fully backing him.
They deserve to be treated with contempt, they're gutter rats.What the hell was that press conference? Jesus
It was only five minutes and the rest is embargoed.
It will indeed appear as an odd comment, if you can't apply basic critical thinking. Only if you were taking everything written in the press at face value, would you actually believe that Jose has turned everyone against him. Most of it is written by people who have feck all idea what happens and just make up stories for clicks. And they wouldn't treat Mourinho differently from any other manager in that regard.
What is there from Mourinho to say on how Spurs go about their business? He's the United manager during a pre-match presser, not a pundit.
Love it. These press conferences are a load of shite anyway, why not feck with the entitled pricks a bit while doing them.
I just wondered if he'd heard rumours about Poch & United.
Give it time, there's 8 plus hours left yet.
Think you take the prize for most defeatist post on the CAF for the day.
Yeah, what a hero. Mourinho messes with press core! Just what I was hoping for from a Manchester United manager. No one expects anything from the football media, they’ll dig wherever they can for a story. But the representative of this great institution? Yeah, sorry, I don’t see much point celebrating the man acting like a petulant child. Which is basically par for the course at this point.
Whether he did or he did not, why would he address it. "How they go about their business" didn't seem a football related question. So to ask that of the United manager in the pre-match presser seems a bit odd. It's a loaded question to boot. It's like they're fishing for a statement to validate their belief that Spurs is better run than United atm so they can put that to press and say that Mourinho criticises the board again.
Fergie used to treat them even worse at times with more scorn and insults. I don't think it's particularly childish. Nor do I particularly care what kind of relationship that of the Manager with the media is.
Fergie had plenty of credit in the bank. Mourinho basically has none.
LVG also treated them the same way and I never complained about even though I didn't LVG in general. Journalists are full of shite and deserve this.
It's true that Ferguson was often much worse, it was one of his more unlikable traits. I don't quite hate the press like some on here do, it feels a bit Trump supporter like, but I can completely get a manager being pissed off especially when all they see and hear is negativity about them. In that case, just don't turn up. I would suggest it's more childish to turn up early, give shitty answers and leave quickly.
I don't agree in any respect with this. Both the sentiment that Mourinho has no credit, nor that the same type of behaviour can be classified as childish or not merely on the notion of "amount of credit in the bank". I didn't see it as childish when Fergie did it, and I don't see it as childish now.
I'm sure they generate far more traffic from "United in shambles" stories compared to "United doing well"
Too often it comes across like he cares a lot more about his brand and general standing in the game more than the club he's being paid by to do a job. Never used to notice it as much, he might have always been that way though.
