Jose the hypocrite.

Spare of the moment stuff from Jose because he didn't win

Fergie has said similar things in the past
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This.

Some of the stuff Fergie said in his post match interviews used to make me cringe.

I'm sure they look back on their comments the day after and regret them.

I'm sure Ferguson and Jose couldn't give a f-ck to be honest. They're both winners and will do what's necessary to win.

There is no right or wrong way to play football, especially at a relegation threatened club. At the end of the day it's just a bunch of guys running around kicking a ball. People who get precious about styles of play need to chill out.

No of course there is no 'wrong' way to play but Allardyce does his best to suck the love and life out of football.

Maybe if he was a manager with minimal funds at a small I club I'd understand but he isn't, his arrogance and bloatedness add to my dislike for the man, a true belllend.

Haha, fair enough. I like him. Not love, but just like him.

comment by Greatteamswinit4times (U6008)
posted 3 hours, 7 minutes ago
I find it hilarious that people get drawn in by Jose. Why do you think he said it? To deflect from a poor result. What has made the headlines today, Chelsea not being able to beat a relegation threatened team or Jose and his 19th century comment. He has always parked the bus against teams that are better than him. He knows that.
Everything the man says has a meaning behind it. He doesn't say anything by accident and yet, 8 years after he first arrived, people are still drawn in by him. The guy is a genius.
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I find it hilarious how some people put everything he says down to his 'genius'. Only yesterday morning, there was an article praising him as a genius for saying he wanted City to beat Spurs, reading into it that he was playing mind games and piling the pressure on City. A few hours later, City thump Spurs and Chelsea drop points vs West Ham. Genius.

The truth is he shoots his mouth off at every turn. He sometimes gets things right, but he often digs himself into holes and rubs his own people up the wrong way. You only need to look at all the trouble he had at Madrid, where he lost half the dressing room, part of the academy staff and even the most rabidly pro-Madrid sectors of the media, and you'll realise he doesn't always know what he's doing.

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He lost Casillas who went behind his back and was feeding stories to his wife in the media and he lost Ramos, who is one of the biggest 's in world football.
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Don't be ridiculous, what's your disliking Ramos as a player got anything to do with it? What's he ever said or done off the pitch to support that view?

He lost the team captains. Players who hadn't and haven't had a problem with another manager in their lives. And Pepe, and Marcelo (3rd captain), even Ronaldo was against the guy in the end.

He made an absolute mess of Madrid's title defence right from the start. After every poor result in the opening months he repeatedly shifted the blame to the players just to save face. He'd started to lose the dressing room long before he benched Casillas.
Incidentally, Casillas' wife works for Tele5, and doesn't cover Madrid stories - and not once did they break any of these stories. Interestingly, they were mostly broken by Marca, which is in fact part of Tele5s biggest media rivals. Weird to say the least, but I imagine you'll have an explanation for it.

He also slammed the Castilla coach complaining that he wasn't providing him the right players. Out of the blue and in public. Uncalled for, needlessly and uncoaxed.

Escorted by two of his assistants, he took a Marca journo who didn't bang his drum into a private room, harassed, insulted and threatened him.

He labelled fans who questioned his ways and public behaviour 'pseudomadridistas'

He put so many feet wrong it's hard to believe.


Everyone was with him after he brought Madrid a league title and ended the barca dominance, then he made it known that he wouldn't sign another contract so the Madrid hierarchy started leaking little comments about how mourinho actually wasn't that good etc etc. It's the way they do things.
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This is all just made up trollop, sorry. He completely misunderstood the nature of the rivalry between Madrid and Barça; he thought it was a symmetrical relationship when it never has been. He thought the hatred he learnt in Barcelona was the same on both sides of the fence, and it isn't. He lost many fans very early on in his tenure, because they felt the way he conducted himself and the aggression displayed against Barça was unbecoming, a downright embarrassment. Many never bought his means to an end approach. So saying everyone was behind him because he won the league is just total bollox.

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It takes about 5 seconds to find out the story behind Casillas. It isn't even up for debate. Casillas was giving her stories.
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It takes even less than that to believe whatever you like. Just answer this: if he was giving her the stories, how come it was her company's main media rival and not hers who broke them? The truth is that not even Mourinho knew who filtered the stories to the press. In one meeting, he ordered everyone except the players out: the physios, the kit men, the doctor...the episode I described in an earlier post where he locked himself in with the journo was all about the same issue. Mourinho demanded that Meana reveal the name of the mole who'd filtered the stories. Meana bluntly refused and Mourinho completely lost his rag. This was not only reported by Meana, but backed up by others outside the room, as the shouting could be heard through the closed doors. Casillas is a likely candidate of course, but it's by no means proven, nor the only suspect. The fact he's married to a journalist would make it seem plausible, but is more than questionable when you bear in mind it was a rival newsgroup who published the rumours.


"And in the season he won the league, the fans sung his name every home game. It was only once mourinho hinted he was leaving that things turned really sour."
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You'll have heard the UltraSur firm chant his name, but that's only a small section of the crowd - the South stand - who incidentally kept singing his name right up to the end. The Bernabeu, however, was always divided on Mourinho, from the first day to the last. Of course he'd have had better support when success came, but it was never by any means unanimous. Sift through the comments section in just about any match report in Marca and you'll see that all along the fans were divided into two warring factions: the mourinhistas and the anti-mourinhistas.

As for things turning sour, well, imagine a home grown lad like Gerrard in his prime, chosen world's best central midfielder for 5 years running, having won countless titles for Liverpool and a World Cup and two European Championships for England. Imagine a controversial manager who divides the Liverpool faithful causing a rift in the England squad after plunging the United rivaly into unimaginable depths. Imagine Gerrard calling Ferdinand to try and cool things down, and then getting benched for a 3rd-rate replacement. Who do you reckon the fans would side with?


He wasn't as successful as he could and should have been at Madrid but if you want success under mourinho, you have to do it his way. You back him like Chelsea did for 2 years, like inter did and he wins trophies. No ifs, no buts. Just fact.
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Madrid has a much richer history, tradition and track record of success than the 3 years under Mourinho. Mourinho didn't understand the club's history or the rivalry with Barça - which I already explained. Despite this, I can safely say he was granted more power - much more in fact - than any other Madrid manager in my lifetime (I'm 45). The success achieved does not make up for the harm he caused and even so, to date he is the least successful manager of all those who've held a 3-year term ever since the inception of European competition, going on 60 years.
That's a fact.


Then, during the summer, the board decided that they knew better than mourinho and brought back roles that had been terminated a year earlier. It was over from that point.
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Mourinho was the manager of football ever since he won the power struggle with Jorge Valdano. As I said, such powers were unprecedented for a Madrid coach, at least in the past 4o years. As far as I'm aware he retained those powers until his final season. Zidane was brought in, given a job title and a role, chiefly as a club ambassador, but in no case were Mourinho's powers wrestled away from him.