Levy

grandspurs understands the basic premise on Jose.
I am still waiting to hear how the Jose effect resulted in Portos' rise.

Jose has proved that he is a great manager without necessarily having a big budget but will he want to go back to those times ? I doubt it, we will end up with somebody like Moyes all we need to do is give him a tenner and he will think we are rolling in it compared with what he is used to

"Jose has proved that he is a great manager without necessarily having a big budget but will he want to go back to those times ?"

Really ??
If he lifted Porto on Spurs-esque constraints, to where they got, fair enough. No one here seems to have any STAT/FACT stuff to support that.

RDBD

I was more thinking of the 2nd division Portugese team (cant remember their name) that he took to competing with Porto and Benfica. If I remember rightly he never lost a home game with them either and had them in the top 3 of the portugese league.

They had no money by the way.

OK.

Totally ignorant of Jose prior to his last season at Porto, so was hoping someone ITK could educate me on the reality.

News of this could trigger a burst of "Jose in" now (but should be tempered by your "but would he want to go back to that again" ) .

RDBD

I only know cos I read his autobiography

An interesting quote from him tho regarding money before he took the chelsea job he want to go to pool really.

QUOTE

Liverpool are a team that interests everyone and Chelsea does not interest me so much because it is a new project with lots of money invested in it. I think it is a project which, if the club fail to win everything, then [Roman] Abramovich could retire and take the money out of the club. It's an uncertain project. It is interesting for a coach to have the money to hire quality players but you never know if a project like this will bring success

UNQUOTE

Maybe that was earlier in his career I wonder if he still thinks like that ?

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Jose's an incredible manager, and man-manager, could have us challenging for the title no doubt, but I would not want him because of his horrendous personal antics.

Bill Nich would turn in his grave at some of the things he has done (I do NOT say that lightly).

Still, if others can look beyond that then good luck to you, if we get him. If he did ever come to us I would like him to acquaint himself with something called 'fair play' for starters. He's good enough, no doubt at all, but not a decent enough person for Spurs imvho.

kim might have a point he is a stunt puller for sure

kimchibaka

Good post Sir.