I guess I find it hard to believe that Kane can talk about wanting to win and then want to have the guy that had us go out weakly to RB last year, can't beat Zagreb this year, out weakly to Norwich last year, only in the final this year because of the draw and out against the first good team we face in the FA Cup this year all while finishing 6th last year and likely 6th-8th this year. Maybe he buys into the serial winner BS but there is no reason to think that Jose will get him anything close to titles that he wants.
I can't see how anyone, even guys he plays, could like playing for Jose. The team looks so flat out there, with no energy or passion at all. I would think if they loved him and playing for him at least that would be present even if the tacitcs aren't there.
I get your point, but I have heard plenty of his former players referring to him as things like 'a father figure', 'a great manager' etc.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Mourinho fan and would like him gone. But you have to be honest too, and we should remember the teams that knocked us out of cup competitions under Poch;
Leicester, Chelsea x3 (1x pens), Fiorentina, Palace x2, Woolwich, Dortmund, Liverpool x2, Monaco/Leverkusen, Gent, United, West Ham, Juventus, Colchester (pens).
Cup defeats under Mourinho;
Norwich (pens), Leipzig, Everton (aet), Zagreb.
I was fucking livid when Gent knocked us out. As I was after Colchester and that Champions League group with Monaco & Leverkusen.
Poch failed to win 17/17 cup competitions reaching 2 finals I think? Mourinho has failed to win 4/5 so far with 1 final.
All I'm saying really is that Poch wasn't particularly great in cup competitions with us, didn't respect the domestic cups properly, yet on the back of 1 extremely fortuitous Champions League run has a bit of a reputation he doesn't really deserve in the cups.
Forest > Brighton > Toon > Blades > Lose to Chelsea in the final, the first real test.
At least we knocked Chelsea out this season on pens. Poch lost against them all 3 times in the cups.
Poch in domestic cups knocked out Leicester and Woolwich for teams worth noting, whilst getting knocked out 7 times by teams in that top 3rd of the Prem.
Thus far, the only top 3rd of the Prem sides Mourinho has been up against were Chelsea - who we beat, and Everton where it was a great game decided in extra time.
(edit re Everton I forgot)