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Manager Jose Mourinho
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Well generally 4-3-3 but with Bergwijn or whoever is on the right playing almost as a RWB so almost 4-4-2. Giving up the ball mostly and trying to hit forward for quick counters. That’s mainly how we play.
- The game is won by the team who has the smallest testicles.
- Football favours whoever bullies, deflects and scapegoats.
- Away from home, instead of trying to be superior to the opposition, it’s better to shamelessly park the bus like we do at home.
- Whoever has the ball is more likely to have a shot on target.
- Whoever renounces possession wins a miserable fanbase.
- Whoever has the ball has fear- especially if you can't coaching attacking patterns.
- Whoever does not have it is thereby a pussy but this can be overcome with a blank chequebook.
Could be that they want him to toughen up in a little bit bigger club than Leipzig first.
He can only take those clubs over if they are open and right now it appears that his options for a big club are very limited.
This thread is one of the busiest and clearly most want Jose out. However sacking him will achieve nothing, as it is appointing someone better that is the key. Last season Poch had lost it and had to go. However I did not want some caretaker that would be no better or just appointing the best available at this time. Levy had a replacement lined up last season but has he this?
Mourinho has been a roller coaster, starting off good and then a massive slump but retrieving it in the summer. This season it started well and has clearly gone wrong recently. He has clearly made mistakes but seems to be back tracking on ultra defensive. The lack of fans in the stadium has at least 2 effects being that it does not favour the larger clubs with more support and you only have to look at Liverpool to see how without that formidable support at Anfield they are not so good. Also without fans it allows less criticism of Managers, players and ultimately Levy to do anything.
It will cost £30m+ to sack Mourinho which at a time of no crowds is considerable and will impact on the summer transfer targets. Reports are that Mourinho is safe at present and I believe Levy will wait until the end of the season and decide then. Not only will he have a better idea of how many supporters will be allowed in next season but will have more available Managers available to replace him.
In the meantime lets hope for an improvement. WBA was ok and Everton although disappointing was not bad. We will not play teams as talented as Liverpool, MC or Chelsea again this season in the league.
Mourinho has been a roller coaster, starting off good and then a massive slump but retrieving it in the summer. This season it started well and has clearly gone wrong recently. He has clearly made mistakes but seems to be back tracking on ultra defensive. The lack of fans in the stadium has at least 2 effects being that it does not favour the larger clubs with more support and you only have to look at Liverpool to see how without that formidable support at Anfield they are not so good. Also without fans it allows less criticism of Managers, players and ultimately Levy to do anything.
It will cost £30m+ to sack Mourinho which at a time of no crowds is considerable and will impact on the summer transfer targets. Reports are that Mourinho is safe at present and I believe Levy will wait until the end of the season and decide then. Not only will he have a better idea of how many supporters will be allowed in next season but will have more available Managers available to replace him.
In the meantime lets hope for an improvement. WBA was ok and Everton although disappointing was not bad. We will not play teams as talented as Liverpool, MC or Chelsea again this season in the league.
Plenty of football to be played. League still mathematically possible. But so is relegation. And both while extremely unlikely are almost impossible in reality.
He’s going nowhere for now. Just need to see where this season ends up.
Quite the sales pitch!
I want to agree with you, and you make some great points but if I'm Nagelsman then yes, I turned down Real at the time,but that was then, 3 years ago nearly. With 3 more years of experience under my belt and having enhanced my credentials significantly in that time, now is the time to manage a truly elite team.
Keep telling yourself that we are one of those elite teams but fantastic facilities don't make us an elite team by any stretch. We have the set-up, I fully agree, and we have the foundation to become that in future,but we need to identify the next Nagelsmann in my view. I would love to be proven wrong but if I'm Nagelsmann I look at Spurs and think that could have suited me a few years ago but now I want to win titles.
Naggelsman seems a hipster. Tottenham seems like a challenge he would like to take.
Where?
I agree that it might be unlikely that we get Nagelsmann but everybody keeps saying he wants to go to a bigger club while ignoring there are none available to go to.
I think now is our best chance to convince him that he can come here and have a shot to win things. There would be little pressure like at other clubs, the chance to build the squad how he likes, the potential to keep some elite players or move them to fund moves he likes.
Its not a perfect pitch to him but when there are no better options it might be the time to strike. I think the problem is he won't see us as a better job than RB so he just stays there,
Nagelsman and Sabitzer double swoop would be lovely.
You are comparing 27 League Games, 7 Champions League Games 2 Cup Games against PL opposition and 3 against Lower League opposition last season, to 23 League Games, 9 Europa League Games, 2 Cup against PL opposition and 5 against lower league opposition this season.
In effect 36 top level games last season versus 25 this at "same time", and somehow you want to say because be beat Marine and a bunch of Macedonians, Bulgarians, Israelis this year we should be applauding that as some sort of massive achievement.
Plain fact is we are on schedule for our lowest points accumulation since Ramos season, lowest League place, following on from a very low points season last year, which immediately was preceded by being a Champions League Finalist and finishing 4th despite having added numerous players to the squad since then.
Give me strength.
Looks for the banging head against brick wall emoji.
And to answer your question if you offered us this at the start of the season, most fans would not be biting your hand off for it, as shown by the 85 to 90% or so in whatever poll you can look at, that thinks Mourinho should go.
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Oh crap I forgot that Carragher starts talking sense when Liverpool go to shit.
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You are living in Clown World. We are playing the worst football in the PL and the results are getting consistently poorer. Jose is turning our team into a laughing stock in front of our eyes. At what point is reality going to hit home and that you Jose disciples finally accept he is not the right man for our club? Just get rid of him now before he does any more damage and get a caretaker in. Pay him his £30 million or however much it is and be done with it. Each place we are slipping down the league is another £2 million in prize money anyway so get someone in now and if we have a bounce like Tuchel has had we may be able to get a bit of that money back.
And konate. Nagelsman surely would play a back 3/5
And besides I don’t think we will finish 5 points ahead of last season’s tally at the end of the season. To do that we would need 28 points from 15 games and that ain’t gonna happen