If being shit Saturday is the benchmark then he must have taken the whole first team with him.
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Have you read the comments section of this piece in The Athletic? It's fucking hilarious and a couple of stoic Spurs fans giving it to them, getting them rattled in full denial mode.
A disaster or overly-blamed? Evaluating Mourinho at Spurs a year on from his sacking
Jose Mourinho's Tottenham reign did not go well, but how much of that was down to him and how much was a result of mitigating factors?
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You think it was a good idea to fly over there and back before a game?
by winning two football matches against championship clubs.
Not especially but i have no idea how long he had off. We'll never know if it had an impact on Saturday but given thats the sort of abysmal no shot, no show performance we've seen quite a bit of over the last 3 seasons i doubt it. Thankfully we're seeing less of them now than the last 2 or 3 years.
Yeah your one of the few. His great work pales in comparison to Brian Clough.
Don’t forget the bye vs Leyton Orient
Mourinho was a fucking joke and I don’t know why people defend him here.
That fact, not just your opinion
And spent 120 million net, 50% more than any other Serie A side.
Maybe he saw the terrible spell at United and the last year of Chelsea that should have been a warning to us?
Terrible spell at Utd? Ok, you rewrite history if you wish.
Oh no, thats right he said getting second was his greatest ever achievement, and only spending £400million+ in the pprocess?
Let us bow down to this incredible non--achievement.
I like him and his attitude, he should be doing better at Roma tho, they spent the most in the summer and has fell upon a formation that is working
Have you read the comments section of this piece in The Athletic? It's fucking hilarious and a couple of stoic Spurs fans giving it to them, getting them rattled in full denial mode.
A disaster or overly-blamed? Evaluating Mourinho at Spurs a year on from his sacking
Jose Mourinho's Tottenham reign did not go well, but how much of that was down to him and how much was a result of mitigating factors?
Annoyingly my comment didn’t pick up any of them. Chucked the bait out there but no bites. Yet.
If Mourinho was good at Utd then a Louis Van Gaal (get well soon!) was world class
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Never liked the guy, never wanted him at the club, though was a part of me watching his success elsewhere that was a little envious.
Levy scratched his Mourinho itch and drew blood - but maybe that's not the whole story.
Honestly I think he came to the club at possibly the worst time for any managerial appointment I remember. We weren't an optimistic team on the rise, we had been shocking for a long time in the league and added to that the Champions League final defeat massively worked against us - but mentally the team and our fans thought we were better than we were. We had players that had played to a really high level before that were no longer at that level, and we as supporters also had to slowly accept that and move on from them.
He inherited a squad he liked the look of, like a lot of fans - based on previous levels and performances. But we all know what happened and Mourinho had to handle that 'painful' transition.
Players like Rose, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Aurier, Winks, Sissoko, Lo Celso, Dele, Ndombele - at the time probably hard if not impossible to axe them all.
At the time I can understand reasons for trying to persevere with most of those names.
Then Covid. It's hard to say what difference fans and regular fixture scheduling could have had - but I don't think all our results would have been the same in a non Covid parallel universe.
The wrong man at the wrong time for me. Don't think there has ever been a right time for Mourinho at Spurs either, but I do think he has done a decent job at Roma. Problem he has now is that people look at his CV (like him or not) and will say that he should be exceeding expectations of the club. Maybe getting Roma top 4, winning a cup or 2 - because that's the standard he has set himself. Doesn't mean he hasn't done a decent job that most managers would be pretty happy with, and kind of proves his coaching & tactical methods are still relevant in the modern Italian game at least.
As for the cup final.. the most believable reason I have heard is that Levy had a massive cup win bonus for him in his contract, and a scaling contract termination fee based on current league position. So the timing possibly saved us tens of millions. He had to go really, and for Levy to find the most financially viable way to get rid of him is very believable - probably hoping Mason could do a Di Matteo style job where it's on the players to win.. but that doesn't account for Winks getting 90 minutes or Lucas / Lo Celso starting ahead of Bale for example.
A shite era I wish never happened - though I would also concede that very few (if any) managers would have been successful with us during that period of time.
Levy scratched his Mourinho itch and drew blood - but maybe that's not the whole story.
Honestly I think he came to the club at possibly the worst time for any managerial appointment I remember. We weren't an optimistic team on the rise, we had been shocking for a long time in the league and added to that the Champions League final defeat massively worked against us - but mentally the team and our fans thought we were better than we were. We had players that had played to a really high level before that were no longer at that level, and we as supporters also had to slowly accept that and move on from them.
He inherited a squad he liked the look of, like a lot of fans - based on previous levels and performances. But we all know what happened and Mourinho had to handle that 'painful' transition.
Players like Rose, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Aurier, Winks, Sissoko, Lo Celso, Dele, Ndombele - at the time probably hard if not impossible to axe them all.
At the time I can understand reasons for trying to persevere with most of those names.
Then Covid. It's hard to say what difference fans and regular fixture scheduling could have had - but I don't think all our results would have been the same in a non Covid parallel universe.
The wrong man at the wrong time for me. Don't think there has ever been a right time for Mourinho at Spurs either, but I do think he has done a decent job at Roma. Problem he has now is that people look at his CV (like him or not) and will say that he should be exceeding expectations of the club. Maybe getting Roma top 4, winning a cup or 2 - because that's the standard he has set himself. Doesn't mean he hasn't done a decent job that most managers would be pretty happy with, and kind of proves his coaching & tactical methods are still relevant in the modern Italian game at least.
As for the cup final.. the most believable reason I have heard is that Levy had a massive cup win bonus for him in his contract, and a scaling contract termination fee based on current league position. So the timing possibly saved us tens of millions. He had to go really, and for Levy to find the most financially viable way to get rid of him is very believable - probably hoping Mason could do a Di Matteo style job where it's on the players to win.. but that doesn't account for Winks getting 90 minutes or Lucas / Lo Celso starting ahead of Bale for example.
A shite era I wish never happened - though I would also concede that very few (if any) managers would have been successful with us during that period of time.
That was hardly Tottenham or Mourinho’s fault, hey how many times have draws been made live for cups and we’ve had running commentary posts on hope we get ‘Doncaster’ away or ‘Bolton’ home…..nobody ever asks for ‘away’ at Liverpool, what do people want?
It’s great for the club but it’s not evidence of Mourinho magic either.
