Chelsea fans keep calling for his return. The guy is a totally washed up, fat Elvis.
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Manager Jose Mourinho
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Chelsea fans keep calling for his return. The guy is a totally washed up, fat Elvis.
God I hope they do get him. If that squad is fractured now, imagine what it would be like with him?
Bunch of young overrated players. Jose and Jackson would be a thing of beauty. Jose would put all the stress on Thiago Silva and whatever older players they still have. Would be a magnificent disaster.
Italians complaining about defensive football?
Yeah, he’s a busted flush now but his record with these three teams elevates him well above ordinary.
Porto are one of the biggest teams in Portugal — perennial contenders and CL qualifiers but it’s still Portugal and he took an underperforming team to a record breaking Portuguese title and back-to-back European silverware.
That Inter team had no right winning the CL but they did. Maybe it was Sneijder being in the best form of his life.
I didn’t like the football but football is a results oriented business and he certainly delivered results.
I lasted 1:30..... It felt like a heavy breathing phonecall. shivvvvver
He'd drop Palmer for his 'development.'
And immediately want another billion for players …
Not necessarily relevant to this conversation, but I never thought the word painful was used in the sense that we would have to suffer on the pitch for it, either by way of poor results or quality of football, I thought Poch meant it as in painful to part with players who had been fixtures in a previously successful squad to make way for new blood.
It was around the time that we were clinging on to players and tying them down to new deals, whilst maybe Poch would have preferred to sell and re-invest.
No comment on whether I think he would have done a good job of it.
Anyway, to cut back to my initial point, the rebuild can still be "painful" despite the good vibes on the pitch, depending on how attached you are to the likes of PEH, Dier, etc...
Also noting that back when Poch said it he would potentially have been referring to the likes of Toby, Rose, Lamela, Dele, who knows who else.
I though Poch was just being a bit emo....... "Painful" to let go of guys that he'd bonded with and become attached to. He'd already shown he struggled to by relinquising a certain amount of authority to Rose & Toby......
That's the prob with Poch's pressers though... Too waffley and whimsical.
There is no way that guy isn’t on watchlist somewhere.
I preferred that to the occasions where he'd get a face like a slapped arse and moan about being the coach rather than the manager, or when things were going well and he'd allow the media to stir the pot by being vague as opposed to quashing talk of interest from Utd etc.
There was a lot of annoying stuff about him tbh that you would be willing to gloss over because on the pitch things were better than they had been in yonks.
A lot of the stuff that comes out of his mouth we'd be ROFLing ourselves silly if we'd heard it from Arteta.
Indeed.... As much as I cite these things; I'm reticent to be too outright critical as I completely appreciate that he WAS very good for us.
As I've often said; the new gaff is the house that Poch helped build.... All that CL money wasn't on the horizon otherwise; nor expected of him.
Sucks that he got in bed with the Chavs as a lot of the fanbase won't get over it.
You're pretty much paraphrasing my original post
I think I was quite balanced actually or thought I was about his time at Porto and Inter. Anyway, no harm done 
My main point still stands, though...in that he wouldn't be able to take a Brighton or Hoffenheim to glory. To get those big results, Jose needs a team used to the top 3 and an unlimited line of credit.
Obviously the guy is entitled to his decisions and to keep working, but really he should've called it a day after United or us. He's a dinosaur, he's not evolved, still the same old boring football on the pitch and aggro with refs & media. He should've been banned for a long friggin time after what he did to that ref in that parking lot. Heck, even Fergie & Wenger knew when it was time to ride into the sunset.
I’m not sure there’s anyone around today that I would trust to do this.
There’s only one manager I’d bet on — and he has a statue outside of the City Ground.
I’m not sure Wenger knew. He definitely held on a season or two too long and was pushed.
It had. He almost signed a new team before that season.