Chelsea

[Shaggy]

Haha so am I

[Frenchie]

I will be happy if he returns if only to keep us out of the newspapers for the wrong reasons, the media frenzy he will stir up is always amusing even if you bring up a little sick in your mouth every time he oils on to the screen.

[Red_Polo]

Did anyone read the Blizzard article in the last issue which compared Mourinho to a cult leader? It was pretty interesting.

No, but I look forward to him starting some ****hole called Josetown and having a load of kool-aid flown in.

[Venton]

Did anyone read the Blizzard article in the last issue which compared Mourinho to a cult leader? It was pretty interesting.

Interesting. Shame he didn't do a Jim Jones with Chelsea...

"..there are all kinds of obstacles in place for the aspiring modern day despot.."

[Shaggy]

http://www.oneworldsports.com/mourinho-offers/

Mourinho gives Real Madrid final ultimatum

Posted by Duncan Castles

Jose Mourinho is offering Real Madrid a final chance to retain his services as manager. As a condition of continuing at the Santiago Bernabéu, the multiple Champions League-winning coach wants the club to “clean” itself of a series of structural problems that have seriously handicapped his efforts to deliver its 10th European Cup.

Over the past week, Mourinho has intentionally given a series of inflammatory press conferences since his team was narrowly eliminated from this year’s Champions League by Borussia Dortmund — its third consecutive semifinal under his management. Though his pointed criticism of club captain Iker Casillas, disaffected defender Pepe, and the Spanish media have been portrayed as an attempt to lever his own exit to the Premier League, Mourinho’s strategy is not so one-dimensional.

“Jose is doing what he needs to do to clean the cancers from this club,” said a source close to Mourinho. “He is laying everything out in the open and letting Madrid make a decision: Do they want to fix what has held them back year after year, or do they want to continue as they are with individuals who believe they are more important than the club?”

Never fondly received by the Spanish press, Mourinho has been the subject of virulent criticism for his perceived assaults on the club in recent days. He has explained the reasons for his mid-season axing of Casillas, a favored son of the Madrid media, stating that he regrets not insisting on the recruitment of Diego Lopez as the Spain number one’s replacement in his first summer at the club.

“I like Diego Lopez as a goalkeeper more than Casillas,” added Mourinho ahead of this Wednesday’s comprehensive defeat of Malaga. “It’s not personal. I just like him more. I like a goalkeeper that comes out and dominates the airspace and plays with his feet. Iker is fantastic under the posts and I can also say that he likes a coach like [Vicente] Del Bosque or with a different profile more.”

When Pepe critiqued his coach’s handling of a player he described as “an institution for both Real Madrid and Spain” Mourinho laid bare the Portugal international’s anger at losing his starting place to young French central defender Raphael Varane. “Pepe’s problem is easy to analyze,” said Mourinho. “His name is Varane. You don’t have to be a genius, just a normal guy like me, to understand that we’re talking about frustration. It’s not easy for a player to see how he’s outperformed by a 19-year-old kid, but the kid is fantastic. I have to try to be honest, and most people think that Real Madrid’s defensive future is Varane and [Sergio] Ramos.”Discussing his relationship with the press, Mourinho defended a decision to remove reporters’ access to training sessions and club flights. “That I don’t play your favorite children is right,” he added before pointedly referring to problems that “exist when one player believes that he’s above the rest”.

After ending Pep Guardiola’s storied era of success at Barcelona in his second season with the ‘Liga of Records’ Spanish title and re-establishing Madrid as a Champions League force following six years without a single quarterfinal, Mourinho is confident he will deliver them that competition if the club’s hierarchy gathers the strength to support his reforms. Should he not receive that backing, the 50-year-old will move elsewhere.

While Mourinho’s strategy will be labeled as egotistical in some quarters, it is not a case of the coach selfishly wanting his way. His argument is that Madrid — the world’s most affluent football club — will never achieve its proper potential until the basic structural issues he highlights have been properly addressed. As ever, his fundamental focus is on-field success.

The Madrid hierarchy’s basic stance with Mourinho is that they want him to continue as manager next season, yet such is the institutional change required to meet his demands for reform, and so virulent has been some of the opposition to him, that a summer divorce remains the most likely outcome. The former Chelsea manager has regularly talked of his intention to work in the Premier League again and has significant personal reasons for pursuing a return to Stamford Bridge, with his family already committed to a London move.

There remains, however, no contractual deal with Chelsea for his own return and major questions remain over how much authority Roman Abramovich would allow him in such a role. A €40million exit clause in a Madrid contract that runs until 2016 would also require to be negotiated away before Mourinho could leave the Bernabéu.

[Arn]

Sounds like Roman won't pay what it takes to get him.

[Shaggy]

Be funny if Chelsea don't get him

[Reece]

Laudrup to Chelsea?

[Arn]

Be funny if Chelsea don't get him

As it stands right now IMO.

Roman won't pay what it takes and Mourinho want his money so he won't resign and Real will never sack him because it would cost them a lot of money.

[cream]

Madrid don't want him, United didn't want him, Barca didn't want him, Bayern Munich didn't want him, City don't look like they want him. Thought he was the special one ?

[Shaggy]

You do wonder if he's sort of past his sell by date a bit. No-one denies his record or his ability, but other managers have emerged, like Guardiola and Klopp, who show you don't have to be a complete and utter cunt to achieve big things. On the contrary in fact - they are clearly nice guys, likeable blokes, who go about their business in a totally different way to Mourinho. I think big clubs are beginning to cotton on to Mourinho's short shelf life and his 'scorched earth' way of working.

[Pablo]

You do wonder if he's sort of past his sell by date a bit. No-one denies his record or his ability, but other managers have emerged, like Guardiola and Klopp, who show you don't have to be a complete and utter cunt to achieve big things. On the contrary in fact - they are clearly nice guys, likeable blokes, who go about their business in a totally different way to Mourinho. I think big clubs are beginning to cotton on to Mourinho's short shelf life and his 'scorched earth' way of working.

Definitely agree on that. I think it's starting to put a number of clubs off. I do think he needs to change his ways and his image somewhat. I think he's too egotistical to realise that though and do something about it.

[Exiled_red]

You do wonder if he's sort of past his sell by date a bit. No-one denies his record or his ability, but other managers have emerged, like Guardiola and Klopp, who show you don't have to be a complete and utter cunt to achieve big things. On the contrary in fact - they are clearly nice guys, likeable blokes, who go about their business in a totally different way to Mourinho. I think big clubs are beginning to cotton on to Mourinho's short shelf life and his 'scorched earth' way of working.

[Imy]

You do wonder if he's sort of past his sell by date a bit. No-one denies his record or his ability, but other managers have emerged, like Guardiola and Klopp, who show you don't have to be a complete and utter cunt to achieve big things. On the contrary in fact - they are clearly nice guys, likeable blokes, who go about their business in a totally different way to Mourinho. I think big clubs are beginning to cotton on to Mourinho's short shelf life and his 'scorched earth' way of working.

We hate Mourinho due to his run-ins with Rafa, other teams' supporters really like him, the Utd fans i spoke to - he was their first chose to replace whiskey nose.

The problem with Mourinho now is clubs see him as a short term option, throw loads of money at players win some stuff and then bugger off.
His next club should be one he tries to build like Klopp, bring the youth etc.

[-V-]

The problem with Mourinho now is clubs see him as a short term option, throw loads of money at players win some stuff and then bugger off.
His next club should be one he tries to build like Klopp, bring the youth etc.

He's clearly seen as someone who is self-obsessed and doesn't give two ****s about his club or employers. Everyone knows he just wants to win for himself and then bugger off and leave a mess behind