What Eddie said and Meta said a long time ago.. he likes big strikers .. but there is a world of difference between a lamp post like Barndoor and someone like Drogba
I full agree on that and i'll add both Pep discovery as a DM and Marcelo imperial form and improvement this season + Benzema form ..
in terms of progress being in the top 4 CL is a big improvement on a stage that several high profile managers failed to achieve before plus the Copa taking over Seville,Atletico Madrid and Barca to win it
theatrics aside i think he did very well for his first season on all levels
I fully disagree with you and Bojan. Ozil was one of best players in Bundesliga last season, nominated for player of the year and lost it only to Robben. werder finished third last season and Ozil had the most assists in the Bundesliga. Look at Werder now without Ozil.
Sami Khedira was one of the best players too, Stuttgart won the league with him, finished 3d and 6th in the last two seasons, look at where they are now.
Mourinho had 93 Million euro to spend, and that only after the season when Madrid paid 94M for Ronaldo, 70 for Kaka, 35 for Alonso, 35 for Benzema etc. He couldn't wish for more or better conditions, what do you expect? another 300M for transfers? 2 Billions? How much?
And with a team which value is almost half a billion he made them to look like Stoke City or Greece at Euro 2004.
I don't see much improvement at Real. People make his CL results look as it is a great achievement. Seriously? He defeated Lyon, who are way worse than they were before, and Tottenham! Every manager can do that with players like Ronaldo, Xabi, Casillas, Higuain, Ozil, Di Maria and etc. Big deal. He won the Copa, yes. But he also was humiliated at Camp Nou. Lost to Barcelona and eveen to Gijon at Bernabeu. Can't remember when was the last time when Real played such ugly and criminal football.
Mourinho is a great manager, but you give him credit as he is God or something. He has the most expensive team in world football, with the highest paid stars. What do you expect? Finishing third in the league and losing to weakest Lyon in years ?
man let them have their false god.....getting beaten by us is killing them so they cling to anything slightly positive and magnetize is to make it look like a huge success....believe me i know around a bunch of maple loser fans all my life
Nope Danny you have so many things wrong, Ozil was very inconsistent with very long dip in form (look for our resident German pundit El Tren on his opinion on Ozil upon the news of the signing ) 18 assists and 11 goals says it all about his form this season ..Khedira is not the reason for Stuttgart problems it's a managerial problem
Lyon are a lot better than last year as well with the addition of Gourcuff & Briand , like wise Spurs who managed to come on top with a group of Inter , Werder and Twente than Milan
In his first year he done a lot better than the likes of Pellegrini and Capello (Europe and copa only not liga)
look @ Alonso form last year and this year.. Benzema.. he lost the team top striker for 5 month...
Soccernet have missed out Ozil's Europa League games and goals/assists from that, for some reason.
See here - http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/assists/_/league/uefa.europa/year/2009/uefa-europa-league?cc=5739
So 12 in the league, 2 in the German cup, 5 in the Europa League.