Mourinho to United | Officially Announced

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Jose might prefer to stick with pot noodles instead of having Nissin Noodles. This is gunna drag on into next week
 

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Watches are useful. Anyone who talks about how great they are, how they need particular characteristics in a watch or who would spend tens of thousands on one can instantly be written off as a human being. It's like a feckwit name tag.
 

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The H version is for spanish Jose. Portuguese is just Jose
This is correct, it's practically the first thing everyone was corrected on when he first came to England.

Portuguese pronounce the hard J.

It must be the name "Jose" as people don't seem to suffer the same difficulties in saying it the right way when saying "Jorge Jesus"
It says much about modern football that they think people still wear watches.

Who's our abacus partner?
Lots of people wear watches.

Mines only a Tag Heuer Formula 1, but I still wear it.
 

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Does he drink Pepsi or Coke? In fact, which drink does United endorse?
Weirdly I just received the following promotional email from United:

Cheers, United! Celebrate Manchester United’s FA Cup win with Aperol Spritz
 

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Here I am refreshing this page every few minutes to see if he's appointed yet and they're holding up the deal over free watches and cars? My god :lol:
 

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Watches are useful. Anyone who talks about how great they are, how they need particular characteristics in a watch or who would spend tens of thousands on one can instantly be written off as a human being. It's like a feckwit name tag.
If I was earning the kind of money Jose does I'd have no issue spending tens of thousands on watches.
 

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Here I am refreshing this page every few minutes to see if he's appointed yet and they're holding up the deal over free watches and cars? My god :lol:
Its worse than that.

Its over which free car and watch (and casino!!) he will be pushing when in front of of the tv cameras.
 

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United might have hit a snag with the Jose Mourinho deal...

The European Union’s Intellectual Property Office database confirms that ‘Jose Mourinho’ is registered as a trademark of Chelsea Football Club Limited.

The application was received in March 2005, during the Portuguese coach’s first season at the club. It was registered the following year and Chelsea’s ownership of the name is only due to expire in 2025.
 

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Chelsea owning Jose's name: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ll-owned-by-former-club-chelsea-a7047866.html

They have provided a link to European Union's Intellectual property database:
https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/004365755

No expert in this shit but given that trademark was registered in 2005 and Mou has changed multiple clubs since then, it can hardly be an issue.
Mate, all of this strikes me as stringing the deal along for as long as possible to keep the story going. Madrid are notorious in how they manipulate employees' image rights, Mendes actually butted heads with them over Ronaldo's, and Jose was there for years.

Our marketing people are probably just enjoying Man Utd being one of the big stories in the news. When they think they can't milk the story any more they'll announce Jose as manager.
 

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It says much about modern football that José's wife can't call him by his name or she'll get sued for copyright infringement.
 

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He has managed at Real Madrid and Inter since then, with no issue.

'Journalist' trying to create a story when they know precisely jack yet again.
 

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Well, then he must change his name. Get this JoMo thing trending.

Someone else owning the copyright to your name though..sheesh.
 

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Even Batman doesn't have this kind of problem.
 
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