C/D: Jose Mourinho?

Joe

Though he is oddly attractive entertaining.

Much like Mike Newell in that regard.

On Manchester United - May 2005
I saw their players and manager go for a lap of honour after losing to us in their last home game. In Portugal if you do this, they throw bottles at you!

On winning ways - October 2005
Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.

On Arsenal's French farce of a penalty - October 2005
You have to wonder why they did that penalty. Because they have so many penalties in the season, that's why. They have to do something special and different.

"Places like this are the soul of English football. The crowd is magnificent, saying '**** off Mourinho' and so on." - Mourinho revels in the abuse he received from Blades fans at Bramall Lane.

This is why he is cool.

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/10/06/manual_104423.html

An open letter to the Scottish Press:

"I'm very glad that you finally got down from the trees and found a worthy place for yourself - a safari park. It shows you have both the habits and instincts of monkeys.

"I'll visit the director of the safari park and ask for a personal cage for each of you.

"One thing is very important. First you have to pass the quarantine rules and the vet will vaccinate you against rabies.

"So you are not allowed to join the monkeys yet. You should notice how peaceful they are. You may affect them badly and they'll become furious. They'll start biting and drawing cartoons.

"I think it should be very comfortable for you to write your so-called 'reports' from your cage. It will feel like your natural habitat. Besides, the fans will be quite safe and aware from now onwards who you really are.

"I will bring your favourite Celtic scarves right inside the cage for you to wear. And if you behave like our monkeys Chippy, Rosie, Blossom and Pansy, I'll give each of you a banana as a reward.

"Also I can organise a party - like the one we had in Kaunas on the eve of the Lithuania v Scotland match - in the safari park, specially for you. There you will be able to take funny photographs of yourselves as a momento of your lucky escape from rabies."

i still like mourinho, on balance, but i think that the humour and playfulness has ebbed a way a little the longer he has been in the premiership, and some of the things he's done and said have just been completely cuntish and irrational (like his recent claims about the ambulance delay at reading).

as a manager, he is obviously brilliant. in the previous 4 seasons: 4 league titles, a european cup, a uefa cup, a portugese cup, a league cup. his work at chelsea is interesting: quite a few players who have been individually underwhelming given their price tags, yet still, they have collectively delivered value for this money. and he has not needed much (any?) time to gel them into a remorseless winning machine.

i think i would like to see him manage a national team at some point. either the english or portugese one.

He knows exactly how to wind people up, but I don't think that's particularly difficult, you just need to be brazen. He is particularly good at winding up Barcelona, yet he'll probably still end up there before long.

But not in five languages. He's desparate for the Portuguese job (would never take England), but will probably go to Italy or Spain for a bit first.

Defining moment will always be him naming the Chelsea team, Barcelona team, referee and linesman before the first Barca game, and getting Barca completely right and Chelsea just wrong enough.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/ticker/hub/football/index.html?item=1319593

Breaking news: claims that Mourinho has been sacked

end times

aka Mark Hughes 4 Chelsea

Called it, if true:

Only one win in four for Chelsea and they're away at Old Trafford next. Maybe Jose will come into the reckoning.

-- onimo, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:06 (Monday, 17 September 2007 22:06) Bookmark Link

hope not

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/05_01/warnockDM1205_468x356.jpg

IT'S TIME

If this is true, surely Hiddink as next boss?

they should hire a different celebrity as manager each week

http://www.cieweb.org.uk/HH.jpg

"celebrity" Chelsea fans, give this lot two games each:

Damon Alban
David Baddiel
Tony Banks
Bubble from Big Brother
Michael Caine
Lawrence Dallagio
Michael Greco
Tim Lovejoy
John Major
David Mellor
Paul Oakenfold
Steve Redgrave
Suggs % Woody from Madness
Dennis Waterman

Albarn, even. FU shitty source!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/7003912.stm

*massive OMFG*

OH HAPPY DAYS!
(When Jose Walked)

Ramos wont be staying in spain now til next summer. He wont knock the Chelsea job back. Spurs will be furious.

'Mourinho Sacked By Chelsea Billionaire'

Updated: 01:22, Thursday September 20, 2007
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been sacked following a bust-up with billionaire owner Roman Abramovich, according to reports.
'Chelsea boss leaves London club'
'Chelsea boss leaves London club'

There has been speculation over his future after a string of lacklustre performances.

The "Special One" is said to have sent text messages to John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba wishing them "good luck in the rest of your career" and saying he was leaving the club this morning.

The reports follow the Blues' disappointing Champions League draw at home to Norwegian minnows Rosenborg on Tuesday.

There has been no confirmation yet from the club.

The 44-year-old is said to have been frustrated for some time with the perceived interference of Abramovich in team affairs.

Mourinho was unhappy with the £30m arrival of Andrei Shevchenko, a striker much admired by the Russian owner.

Abramovich walked out early from Chelsea's 2-0 defeat at Aston Villa earlier this season, and he will not have enjoyed Tuesday's poor result.

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LandingPage/0,,10268~1031634,00.html

CHELSEA STATEMENT
20.09.2007
Chelsea Football Club and José Mourinho have agreed to part company today (Thursday) by mutual consent.

Wonder what Chelsea's 24,973 fans think

Wonder what Chelsea's 24,973 fans think

"fuck i shouldn't have betted on Jol out first"

Would be funny if Spurs sacked jol and appointed Mourinho since Chelsea will presumably get the man Spurs wanted (Ramos).

Steve Mclaren better watch his back though. I can hear those knives sharpening already.

mourinho for england!

lol @ chelsea

Avram Grant to be the new manager, according to the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/7004083.stm

Would be funny if Spurs sacked jol and appointed Mourinho since Chelsea will presumably get the man Spurs wanted (Ramos).

Better still if Jol then goes to Chelsea...

What can djmartian tell us about this ex-Pompey man???

It's okay, I'm sure Abramovich will be able to pick up a multiple Premiership-winning, Champions League winning, European league winning, genuinely charismatic and loyalty-inspiring manager in no time. Oh, hang on.

The man who nearly got Israel to the World Cup, that's some kudos right there. I was kinda waiting for Chelsea to finally turn into an Italian football team, and now they've got the chairman role down pat.

Song for Sunday: "Do you know the way to sack Jose?". I'll get me coat...

Maybe Jose pointed out to Terry that it isn't very nice to call opposing black players (rest of post deleted on legal advice)

Fair enough, John Terry is obv. far more responsible for Chelsea's success than Jose Mourinho

let's get Mourinho at Fulham so Sanchez can go back to Northern Ireland job altho it's probably too late for them now. then Worthington for Chelsea pif paf poof.

Peter Kenyon, January 2007: "Mourinho has a contract until 2010. He is happy here. His family are here. He knows he has a job to do. The board and Jose want to follow up on two fantastic seasons."

Jose Mourinho, February 2007: "There are only two ways for me to leave Chelsea. One way is in June 2010 when I finish my contract and if the club doesn't give me a new one. It is the end of my contract and I am out. The second way is for Chelsea to sack me. The way of the manager leaving the club by deciding to walk away, no chance! I will never do this to Chelsea supporters."

Peter Kenyon, April 2007: "Jose has contract to 2010 and he wants to stay. We are not going to sack him, he has the club's support. That's the situation and we are agreed on it."

John Terry, April 2007: "I want to make sure that not only myself but Frank Lampard, the manager and Roman are still here in four or five years because if we stay together we can achieve great things."

Jose Mourinho, July 2007: "I am in my fourth season here and if I can carry on five, six, seven, eight years, then I will go on without any problem. I have no desire to change and try something different in Italy or Spain. I don't have that desire. I want to stay - and if Chelsea had wanted to make a change, they would have done it by now."

Peter Kenyon, September 18, 2007: "There's loads of speculation that if we don't win Jose gets fired, but that's not the way we think."

Chelsea, September 20, 2007: 'Chelsea Football Club and Jose Mourinho have agreed to part company today (Thursday) by mutual consent.'

WTF Martin Jol mask would be rather more fitting.

Think the Terry line is club propaganda, trying to get the fans back onside by pretending Terry wanted JM out.

I'm sure they had a row - and JT has been playing shit so deserves a bollocking - but they've done this over Shevchenko.

The JT is racist thing is so pathetic.

Rio Ferdinand did say in his book that a (as then) current member of the England squad was a known racist, so it's a 1-in-23 chance that it's Terry.

Ummmmmm...it honestly would not surprise me if found to be factually correct. John Terry: ANUS. And with great lawyers who know Latin and everything.

Rio was talking about SWP (hates "gypos")

Yeah Mourinho was pretty much slagging Shevchenko off in public last week and I remember thinking "ooh that's not going to play well at all".

So Sheva continues to start for Chelsea now, continues to be a bit crap, Chelsea tumble out of the title reckoning early. Anyone fancy a suicidal spread-bet on how high he appears on the next 'Worst ever Premiership signings' list?

(Xpost - he insults them in Latin? I'm not sure Ledley King or Pascal Chimbonda would understand that).

(and Beckham would get paranoid!)

did he say it was an england squad member? i thought he just said "well-known defender"?

though of course i agrees that there is no proof/evidence he's talkin bout terry.

Prison for Abramovich. Relegation dogfight for Chelsea. Too much to hope for really.

Still one out of three ain't bad. YOU'RE TOAST, JOSE!

Prison for Abramovich.

no! we may still need his help allowing Karl Bushby to walk thru Russia.

x-posts

Rio said it was a well-known defender who had never played for England and had since retired. That ain't Terry. Do you really think Drogba would be friends with a known racist?

Ron Atkinson's many black friends to thread

I think the Terry think is vv unlikely not because I think he's a lovely person but mostly because such a known racist is never going to make an effective club captain, let alone an England captain in a team riven with inter-club rivalries.

I imagine there are more than a few racists who are captaining or playing in multiracial teams

It's yer job, innit?

i mena, he's a good bloke, for a......

terry sending off against spurs always left a lot of questions in my head, and there's only one easy answer.

sorry for saying "to thread"

I saw "Grant for Chelsea" and thought, "Peter Grant for Chelsea?!??!?! That's a bit of a leap in class for old Granty!" Didn't Peter Grant play for Chelsea?

-- Tom D.,

haha that's exactly what I thought. What would the Rangers fans with Rangers/Chelsea scarves done then!

darraghmac

Was it 'Poll's fucked up again'? Cos that's what Poll himself admits.

From the Graun:

However Mourinho isn't the only one to cast doubt on Grant's talents. In Israel Grant is known as 'Mr Jammy' and having a 'big fat behind' - a phrase that means being lucky - after scraping a number of fortuitous draws and victories during Israel's Germany 2006 qualifying campaign. One critic, former Israel coach and TV pundit Shlomo Scharf, dismissed him as 'King of the Isles' because Israel could only beat the Faroes Islands and Cyprus during an admittedly tough qualification group that contained France, Ireland and Switzerland.

Big fat behind!

gah, 6 different photos of JM on BBC Football right now

during an admittedly hyper-tedious qualification group that contained France, Ireland and Switzerland.

fixed

is "jammy" actually a hebrew term?

only if the jam is kosher

SO Mourinho wont be allowed to manage in England for the 3 years that was left on his contract?
Wonder if that includes the England job?

so...

marca claim he's gone in summer

chelsea?

guys the Wenger thread's already open

utd, city, chelsea, maybe qpr

City.

psg, plus they might go balls out for cr7, but will he accept the competitive compromise

city, but how much say do the barca dudes in charge have

chelsea, but is roman really gonna make such a humungous aesthetic backtrack when he'd probably rather just give pep a billion to secure him if he could

I've always thought Chelsea - I can imagine that gap on the cv (assuming he wins it with Real this year) driving him mad. Though this quote - "In my career everything was perfect. The only thing I didn't, and I hope I can do it one day, is to win a Champions League with an English club" - raises various other horrors too.

Abel Rodríguez is a 41-year-old Mexican-American who waxes floors in Los Angeles for Metro Transportation. Real Madrid's José Mourinho is one of the world's most famous managers. On the face of things, the two men have nothing in common. Yet recently they became the central figures in a surreal but true buddy story that took Rodríguez behind the scenes as a member of Real Madrid's team in the biggest games of world soccer against Barcelona and Manchester United.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130410/real-madrid-fan-jose-mourinho/

“The lady is a bit confused, with all respect. I’m not laughing. Because her husband went to Chelsea to replace Roberto Di Matteo and he went to Real Madrid and replaced Carlo Ancelotti. The only club where her husband replaces me was at Inter Milan, where in six months he destroyed the best team in Europe at the time. And for her also to think about me and to speak about me, I think the lady needs to occupy her time and if she takes care of her husband’s diet she will have less time to speak about me.”

Kinda evil but mostly lol

mourinho is a bit of an oddity. he often purposefully puts out this vibe that he thinks football is just a job, and he doesn't take it too seriously, and prioritizes his family life, respects his opponents etc. then alternatively he'll take aim at someone's wife and weight in the most schoolboy way possible.

or like gouge an eye

or cause a ref to quit

Bit tardy with the website updates

forgot just how magical a day of sport yesterday truly was

Sacked. Again.

Newcastle next?

Back to Utd I hope.

Palace