Jose Mourinho

[FCBarca]

that's some good sauce right there, adam.

Indeed

 

[Myrmecophile]

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.

 

[FCBarca]

In his pressy, Jozy was his typical self:

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has admitted that Pedro Leon has not been selected for tomorrow's match against the French, Auxerre "because the coach did not want him."

"You speak of him like Zidane or Maradona, when two months ago he was playing for Getafe," he added.

Earlier, at a similar question on the same player, the coach had responded: "It's easier to talk about who is here rather than who is not."

When answering the third question on this subject, the coach stood up and left without saying goodbye.

 

[Hamzah]

what a prick.

 

[King_Puyol]

you do realise its all an act? hes trying to get the papers to hate him then do the usual "us against the world".

 

[Barcafan 2304]

Adam's post was bang on and perhaps the best post ive read....ever! Brilliant

 

[FCBarca]

Gotta love him cutting down one of his own players though...Not so much the comparison to Zizou or Maradona but that he was only playing for Getafe not long ago...He shows no class or respect

 

[Valon]

you do realise its all an act? hes trying to get the papers to hate him then do the usual "us against the world".

Act or not that will have a bad effect on Leon.

 

[El Gato]

Unofficially, the reason for leaving Pedro Leon out is that he has been found/spotted in the hotel's corridor after Levante's game at 4:00 a.m.

 

[Cule Angles]

I assume he hadn't just nipped out for some ice

 

[Fourteen]

He probably nipped out to find Guti, realised he doesn't play for the club anymore and then turned back round to get caught.

You'd have thought Mourinho would be clever enough to change with the times - The media and supporters across Europe are all familiar with his mind-games and behaviour, you'd have thought he'd lessen that and perhaps try new things rather than just keep to the same old act except when moving to a new club, he just speaks about different players and different teams.

 

[El Gato]

It's still a media mind game IMO. He controls what he says through his actions also maintaining club's privacy to a decent extent. That's why Pedro Leon news come out to be unofficial rather than the player coming out to talk in front of camera about his situation.
I think it's the case when the press got what they wanted, another story to write about possibly causing disruption in the club. Now it will go back to normal, Pedro will probably sit down receiving punishment for whatever he has done and he'll come back and get usual minutes.

 

[Gnegneri]

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.

 

[Aryagorn]

WOW Mou receiving some good criticism for bashing Pedro so openly... can't wait for the revista this week

 

[Barcafan 2304]

Be interesting to see the reaction to Mourinho there and what Hunter, in particular, says