Jose Mourinho

[Hamzah]

no di maria on the right and ronaldo on the left, then they switch around to mix it up, sometimes play as normal wingers, sometimes cut in and take shots

 

[Barcaman]

Mou hints at teams giving up without a fight against Barca:

"If there are teams that gift games to Barca, it's going to be a lot harder for us to win the league," Mourinho said at a press conference.
"We are going to need a lot of points to win the league and if, on top of that, there are some teams that are going to put out their second team when they think they are not going to win, we will need even more."

 

[Sultan]

^ always trying to make himself the under dog.

 

[Barcafan 2304]

Pathetic comments.

 

[Ataraxia]

The usual Mourinho. He says those not only for excuses but to create a certain atmosphere in the league now. Said a lot of similar comments in Serie A.

 

[dalitis8]

Imperial idiot...

 

[Poor_Sunyol]

I think everyone in Spain, including the Spanish press are getting a little bored with his predictable post match comments.

Pep is beating him at his own game and taking him to the cleaners in the mind games department. Jose couldn't do it with SAF and obviously can't with Pep either now.

 

[Barcaman]

Aye. Ignore is the key here.

 

[Valon]

It's a big slap in the face from him. Saying that teams play with reserves against Barca and he can't beat Levante who were missing 7 starters.

 

[barcetia]

It's a big slap in the face from him. Saying that teams play with reserves against Barca and he can't beat Levante who were missing 7 starters.

Which players were that? (for future arguments against Madridistas)

 

[Raed]

It's a big slap in the face from him. Saying that teams play with reserves against Barca and he can't beat Levante who were missing 7 starters.

the 8th would have made the difference

 

[Valon]

Which players were that? (for future arguments against Madridistas)

I don't know but the commentator said that Levante is missing 7 starters.

 

[Cule Angles]

I think everyone in Spain, including the Spanish press are getting a little bored with his predictable post match comments.

Pep is beating him at his own game and taking him to the cleaners in the mind games department. Jose couldn't do it with SAF and obviously can't with Pep either now.

Because Pep is genuinely intelligent, respectful and humble it makes him pretty much unflappable and immune to the kind of psychological childishness that Moureen is employing these days. The Portuguese has always relied upon his previous clubs' identities as big clubs with a history of underachievement to build up an underdog, backs to the wall culture and install himself as a hero figure that could take the club to previously unknown glories against the wishes of the establishment.

At Porto he could utilise the fact that they weren't one of the Lisbon clubs, Chelski were the nouveau riche misunderstood upstarts battling against the behemoths of the North and bigger clubs in London, Inter have a victim complex linked to their paranoia regarding more successful rivals in the North of Italy but in Spain that crap doesn't wash because he's at a club that is the very epitome of establishment. The club's battle isn't to join the establishment but to rid itself of the sense of entitlement that has afflicted consecutive teams and held them back from success in Europe, whilst at home they've had to rely on Barca committing hari-kiri and the rest of the league weakening too much to present a challenge. Moureen trying to play his default jilted anti-establishment figure just comes across as faintly ridiculous in Spain when he's managing Real Madrid, it's time he manned up.

 

[Barcafan 2304]

Aye. Ignore is the key here.

Exactly. Fans on discussion forums can debate these things but as for Pep, the best thing he can do is ignore it and hopefully, Mourinho will just end up tying himself in knots

 

[Metaphysical]

Because Pep is genuinely intelligent, respectful and humble it makes him pretty much unflappable and immune to the kind of psychological childishness that Moureen is employing these days. The Portuguese has always relied upon his previous clubs' identities as big clubs with a history of underachievement to build up an underdog, backs to the wall culture and install himself as a hero figure that could take the club to previously unknown glories against the wishes of the establishment.

At Porto he could utilise the fact that they weren't one of the Lisbon clubs, Chelski were the nouveau riche misunderstood upstarts battling against the behemoths of the North and bigger clubs in London, Inter have a victim complex linked to their paranoia regarding more successful rivals in the North of Italy but in Spain that crap doesn't wash because he's at a club that is the very epitome of establishment. The club's battle isn't to join the establishment but to rid itself of the sense of entitlement that has afflicted consecutive teams and held them back from success in Europe, whilst at home they've had to rely on Barca committing hari-kiri and the rest of the league weakening too much to present a challenge. Moureen trying to play his default jilted anti-establishment figure just comes across as faintly ridiculous in Spain when he's managing Real Madrid, it's time he manned up.

that's some good sauce right there, adam.