It's official - The return of the 'Special One'
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Shows the drama they attach to him. He's just a large-headed, small-bodied bloke who sounds like he's read a book about Brian Clough. Just as the same dullards watched Cantona desperately glug water whilst trying to think of how to finish his ludicrous metaphor about fish following a trawler, and then rewrote him as a 'deep' thinker, so they take Maureen's simple-minded and wildly scattershot attempts at bon mots and rewrite him as a smooth-talking genius. All the journalists think about is how to fill that horrifying blank page, and if they find a useful idiot like Maureen they rub their hands and realise they can file their copy early no matter how dull the day might be.
I feel we hold very similar opinions on Mourinho, he really doesn't say anything intelligent it's mostly about shock value and the reaction he can get.
You know when a child says something naughty they know they aren't supposed to like poopy head to get a reaction, that's exactly what Jose does, he even pauses to feel the response. I'm bored of him, sometimes he is charming and funny but courting controversy and craving attention gets tedious and shouldn't be something the figurehead of a football club should be getting involved with.
I guess it was ever thus but it's funny watching all of these clapped out ex-Chelski players popping up on TV to find more and more indirect ways of saying 'Please keep employing me for hospitality gigs at the stadium!' Chopper Harris, Kerry Dixon, Scott Minto and the ubiquitous Ray Wilkins - worra lorra tossers!
And SkySportsNews are following their usual overkill schedule:
first two hours - repeating the basic news;
next two hours - endless interviews with ex-pros on their mobile phones on the golf course;
next two hours - increasingly desperate stats;
next two hours - probably a list of other people called 'Mourinho,' a list of anyone else who got a new job on 3 June, and Jim White will shout at Cockney kids outside the stadium.
And SkySportsNews are following their usual overkill schedule:
first two hours - repeating the basic news;
next two hours - endless interviews with ex-pros on their mobile phones on the golf course;
next two hours - increasingly desperate stats;
next two hours - probably a list of other people called 'Mourinho,' a list of anyone else who got a new job on 3 June, and Jim White will shout at Cockney kids outside the stadium.
When did Carvahlo turn into an alien?
A blast from the past:
The Observer, Sunday 23 September 2007
Tuesday, 10pm, home dressing room, Stamford Bridge. Andriy Shevchenko is taking Michael Essien to task on his performance in the night's embarrassing 1-1 draw with Rosenborg. The former European footballer of the year tells Africa's finest midfielder that he tried to make too many passes through the centre of the Norwegians' formation where '70 percent of their players were'. Essien learns he should have been passing to the wings 'where they only had 30 percent of their men'.
Not the most insightful of tactical advice, but then these are not the thoughts of a Ukraine international, they are those of a Russian billionaire. Standing beside Shevchenko, tactics board in hand, Roman Abramovich is the man telling Essien how to play football. Shevchenko is merely there to translate. In another room, attending to the press, Mourinho is utterly unaware of his employer's actions.
Tuesday, 7:11pm, the home dressing room. Chelsea's squad of 18 are called out for their pre-match warm up. All the players step out for the carefully prepared drill - except one. John Terry remains sitting where he is. One of Jose Mourinho's assistants urges Terry out. Chelsea's captain refuses, swears, and, according to an eye witness, says he is upset and has 'things on my mind'. Terry is said to be furious after finding out that Mourinho had been asking in Chelsea's treatment room whether there was a medical reason for his perceived loss of form over recent weeks. The stand-off continues until a team-mate cajoles his friend out on to the pitch.
The game starts, Chelsea quickly lose a goal at a free kick as Miika Koppinen stretches ahead of Terry to turn in a near-post cross. Chelsea go in at half time 1-0 down and Jose Mourinho takes his captain to task, blaming the defender for the deficit. Terry says nothing but all his team-mates can see the anger on his face.
The pair had once been the closest of footballing allies, but within 24 hours Mourinho is no longer Terry's manager as Chelsea agree to a £10.5million pay-off to rid themselves of a man they describe as 'the most successful manager the club has known'.
'The relationship broke down not because of one detail or because of something that happened at a certain moment. It broke down over a period of time.' - Jose Mourinho, 21 September 2007.
To understand how the winner of two Premier League titles, two League Cups and one FA Cup, a man who averaged an unprecedented 2.33 points from his 120 Premiership games in just over three seasons, steadily became persona non grata at the club he made great, it is necessary to return to the summer of 2005.
'In Jose's first season everything was fine,' said a Chelsea employee who suffered the Abramovich guillotine long before the Portuguese. 'He came in, he won the title by miles, almost made the Champions League final, everyone was happy. But then it all began to go wrong. Peter Kenyon started thinking it was his genius as a chief executive that was important. Abramovich's mates were telling him his money had done it and any half-decent coach would win the league with those resources. They forgot that the most important man at any club is the manager.'
That summer, Chelsea poached Tottenham Hotspur's sporting director Frank Arnesen at a cost of £5m. Ostensibly recruited to revolutionise the club's sub-standard youth ranks, the Dane was actually brought in on the recommendation of Piet de Visser, a well-known Dutch talent scout who had advised Abramovich on football matters from his first months as Chelsea owner.
Arnesen and De Visser, friends and allies from their time together at Dutch club PSV Eindhoven, steadily worked to influence Abramovich's thinking on the first team, and, most importantly, player recruitment. Along with the agents Soren Lerby, Vlado Lemeic and Pini Zahavi they sought to steer Abramovich towards the purchase of certain footballers. Their objective, according to one source, was 'to get to Abramovich's money. To do that they needed power at the club, needed a manager who would do what they wanted. Mourinho was not that manager.'
Thus emerged a power struggle in which Arnesen and others seemed to undermine Mourinho by questioning him at every opportunity. When Mourinho went to war with Uefa over the actions of referees they told Abramovich his coach was embarrassing the club. When Mourinho's team dourly won key matches by a goal to nil, they told the owner a better coach would win by more goals and bring him far more flamboyant football. When a Mourinho signing failed to perform on the pitch, they told Abramovich that better players could be found elsewhere.
Within a year, and despite Mourinho's success in claiming a second successive Premiership, the manager had lost control of transfers. In the 2006 summer window, Mourinho asked the board to buy Samuel Eto'o; they spent a UK record £30m on Shevchenko. Chelsea sold William Gallas to Arsenal against Mourinho's wishes, and forced the £7m Khalid Boulahrouz upon him, while Arnesen compounded the error of allowing Chelsea's most effective defender to leave the club by pulling the plug on the £5m purchase of Micah Richards. Inside a season Richards was a full England international, while Boulahrouz was stinking out the reserves until Chelsea paid Sevilla to take him off their hands.
At least Mourinho could easily leave the Dutch defender out of the first team. A personal friend of Abramovich's, Shevchenko played regardless of his performances, and those were usually awful. In his first 26 appearances for Chelsea, the Ukrainian striker scored five goals. His coaches and team-mates often felt as though Chelsea were playing with 10 men and Mourinho was faced with a problem - should he leave out the owner's pal or lose the faith of the rest of the team?
As January approached, Mourinho asked to be allowed to sign a new striker. The board refused. Mourinho asked for a centre-back to cover for Terry, then sidelined with a serious back problem. The board offered him a choice between Alex, a Brazilian bought via De Visser and 'parked' at PSV for two seasons, and Tal Ben Haim, a Zahavi client. Mourinho wanted neither.
Worse still, Chelsea's manager was instructed to sack one of his assistants and add the Israeli Avram Grant to his coaching staff. When he refused, the club descended into open warfare.
Mourinho dropped Shevchenko from his first team, leaking the story to a national newspaper in an open challenge to Abramovich to sack him. On an emotional afternoon at Stamford Bridge the manager first rallied his team around him, then sent them out to overrun Wigan 4-0. Long before kick-off the Chelsea supporters were chanting 'Stand up for the Special One' through standing ovation after standing ovation.
An infuriated Abramovich ceased attending games and instructed his advisors to find a replacement coach. Mourinho let it be known that he would leave, but only on payment of the outstanding value of his contract - about £28m comprising £5.2m per annum for three-and-a-half years and up to £10m in bonuses. In the meantime he kept winning matches, pushing his injury-hit squad to within a few games of a remarkable quadruple.
Ultimately Chelsea won the League Cup and the FA Cup, forcing Abramovich to reconcile with his manager. A consciously 'mellow' Mourinho promised to avoid conflict with opposing managers and football authorities, accepted restrictions on his transfer budget, and reshaped his team in a more flamboyant 4-4-2 formation. Fatefully, he also acceded to the appointment of Grant as Chelsea's director of football.
Though some in Mourinho's camp had Grant pinned as a 'Mossad Spy' from the off, the manager attempted to work with him, holding long meetings with him during the club's staggeringly positive pre-season US tour and letting it be known that he welcomed his arrival as a buffer against Arnesen and route to Abramovich. The early-season optimism, however, swiftly evaporated.
Grant began calling individual players aside to ask them questions.
'You look sad, why?' 'How do you feel in this position?' 'Is this the best place for you to play?' 'Are we using your abilities well?' Because many of them complained about this to Mourinho, the manager decided to cut back radically on team meetings, the only one this season having been arranged for the Jewish New Year when Grant had returned to Israel.
While Grant looked on at training, Shevchenko treated it with disdain. A morose, lonely figure around the camp, he seemed to show more interest in improving his golf swing than his shooting. As the first team prepared for their final pre-season friendly against Danish side Brondby, Shevchenko declared himself unfit with a back problem. A 2-0 victory ensured the £121,000-a-week striker was not missed, but Mourinho was bemused to discover that Shevchenko's bad back had not prevented him from enjoying a round of golf at Sunningdale that day.
The board, though, were not interested and the club's descent continued. Other players began to realise what was happening, that the summer's peace was a false one, that their manager had no support from the top. 'The mentality became weaker and weaker,' said one insider. 'You could feel the team's strength sapping away.'
Mourinho knew his time at Chelsea was coming to an end. At Uefa's forum for elite coaches in Geneva a fortnight ago he allowed Premier League rivals an insight into his thinking. 'Mourinho said he loved Chelsea and he loved English football, but thought he would not stay for long,' said one coach. 'One of us asked him why. He wouldn't answer, but it was obvious something was seriously wrong.'
His next Champions League match brought the end. On Wednesday afternoon the board asked Mourinho to resign, citing his handling of Shevchenko, his attitude to authority and, crucially, his relationship with Terry as reasons why he should go. Mourinho refused to walk, and fought only to maximise his pay-off as Chelsea apparently threatened to call club employees to testify against him at any employment tribunal.
A £10.5m pay-off was agreed and the following morning Mourinho made a final trip to the training centre at Cobham to pick up his possessions and say goodbye to his squad. There was a message in each farewell. For most there was a Latin embrace and warm words of thanks. For Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard the emotions were so strong that both men were reduced to tears, Lampard retreating to the shower room in an attempt to hide his. For Shevchenko and Terry there was nothing but a handshake that, in the words of one observer, could have 'frozen a mug of tea'. No one was in any doubt about who he considered the true captains of his team.
Out with the old, in with the new. Furious at Mourinho's dismissal, senior players describe Grant's appointment as 'a disgrace'. Some at Cobham call him 'an idiot' and describe his coaching techniques as '25 years behind the times'. Abramovich pushes the Israeli around 'without a hint of respect'.
Former academy coach Brendan Rogers has been drafted in to help out with the first team, a promotion that may not be unconnected to the one-on-one training sessions he gave Abramovich's son. Only in Steve Clarke is there the level of football knowledge to deal with a squad full of international superstars. As the sole survivor of Mourinho's cadre of four assistant managers, the Scotsman has an unenviable task.
But then neither he nor Grant will be picking the team. As Michael Essien discovered on Tuesday night, the new manager of Chelsea is also the owner.
The Observer, Sunday 23 September 2007
Tuesday, 10pm, home dressing room, Stamford Bridge. Andriy Shevchenko is taking Michael Essien to task on his performance in the night's embarrassing 1-1 draw with Rosenborg. The former European footballer of the year tells Africa's finest midfielder that he tried to make too many passes through the centre of the Norwegians' formation where '70 percent of their players were'. Essien learns he should have been passing to the wings 'where they only had 30 percent of their men'.
Not the most insightful of tactical advice, but then these are not the thoughts of a Ukraine international, they are those of a Russian billionaire. Standing beside Shevchenko, tactics board in hand, Roman Abramovich is the man telling Essien how to play football. Shevchenko is merely there to translate. In another room, attending to the press, Mourinho is utterly unaware of his employer's actions.
Tuesday, 7:11pm, the home dressing room. Chelsea's squad of 18 are called out for their pre-match warm up. All the players step out for the carefully prepared drill - except one. John Terry remains sitting where he is. One of Jose Mourinho's assistants urges Terry out. Chelsea's captain refuses, swears, and, according to an eye witness, says he is upset and has 'things on my mind'. Terry is said to be furious after finding out that Mourinho had been asking in Chelsea's treatment room whether there was a medical reason for his perceived loss of form over recent weeks. The stand-off continues until a team-mate cajoles his friend out on to the pitch.
The game starts, Chelsea quickly lose a goal at a free kick as Miika Koppinen stretches ahead of Terry to turn in a near-post cross. Chelsea go in at half time 1-0 down and Jose Mourinho takes his captain to task, blaming the defender for the deficit. Terry says nothing but all his team-mates can see the anger on his face.
The pair had once been the closest of footballing allies, but within 24 hours Mourinho is no longer Terry's manager as Chelsea agree to a £10.5million pay-off to rid themselves of a man they describe as 'the most successful manager the club has known'.
'The relationship broke down not because of one detail or because of something that happened at a certain moment. It broke down over a period of time.' - Jose Mourinho, 21 September 2007.
To understand how the winner of two Premier League titles, two League Cups and one FA Cup, a man who averaged an unprecedented 2.33 points from his 120 Premiership games in just over three seasons, steadily became persona non grata at the club he made great, it is necessary to return to the summer of 2005.
'In Jose's first season everything was fine,' said a Chelsea employee who suffered the Abramovich guillotine long before the Portuguese. 'He came in, he won the title by miles, almost made the Champions League final, everyone was happy. But then it all began to go wrong. Peter Kenyon started thinking it was his genius as a chief executive that was important. Abramovich's mates were telling him his money had done it and any half-decent coach would win the league with those resources. They forgot that the most important man at any club is the manager.'
That summer, Chelsea poached Tottenham Hotspur's sporting director Frank Arnesen at a cost of £5m. Ostensibly recruited to revolutionise the club's sub-standard youth ranks, the Dane was actually brought in on the recommendation of Piet de Visser, a well-known Dutch talent scout who had advised Abramovich on football matters from his first months as Chelsea owner.
Arnesen and De Visser, friends and allies from their time together at Dutch club PSV Eindhoven, steadily worked to influence Abramovich's thinking on the first team, and, most importantly, player recruitment. Along with the agents Soren Lerby, Vlado Lemeic and Pini Zahavi they sought to steer Abramovich towards the purchase of certain footballers. Their objective, according to one source, was 'to get to Abramovich's money. To do that they needed power at the club, needed a manager who would do what they wanted. Mourinho was not that manager.'
Thus emerged a power struggle in which Arnesen and others seemed to undermine Mourinho by questioning him at every opportunity. When Mourinho went to war with Uefa over the actions of referees they told Abramovich his coach was embarrassing the club. When Mourinho's team dourly won key matches by a goal to nil, they told the owner a better coach would win by more goals and bring him far more flamboyant football. When a Mourinho signing failed to perform on the pitch, they told Abramovich that better players could be found elsewhere.
Within a year, and despite Mourinho's success in claiming a second successive Premiership, the manager had lost control of transfers. In the 2006 summer window, Mourinho asked the board to buy Samuel Eto'o; they spent a UK record £30m on Shevchenko. Chelsea sold William Gallas to Arsenal against Mourinho's wishes, and forced the £7m Khalid Boulahrouz upon him, while Arnesen compounded the error of allowing Chelsea's most effective defender to leave the club by pulling the plug on the £5m purchase of Micah Richards. Inside a season Richards was a full England international, while Boulahrouz was stinking out the reserves until Chelsea paid Sevilla to take him off their hands.
At least Mourinho could easily leave the Dutch defender out of the first team. A personal friend of Abramovich's, Shevchenko played regardless of his performances, and those were usually awful. In his first 26 appearances for Chelsea, the Ukrainian striker scored five goals. His coaches and team-mates often felt as though Chelsea were playing with 10 men and Mourinho was faced with a problem - should he leave out the owner's pal or lose the faith of the rest of the team?
As January approached, Mourinho asked to be allowed to sign a new striker. The board refused. Mourinho asked for a centre-back to cover for Terry, then sidelined with a serious back problem. The board offered him a choice between Alex, a Brazilian bought via De Visser and 'parked' at PSV for two seasons, and Tal Ben Haim, a Zahavi client. Mourinho wanted neither.
Worse still, Chelsea's manager was instructed to sack one of his assistants and add the Israeli Avram Grant to his coaching staff. When he refused, the club descended into open warfare.
Mourinho dropped Shevchenko from his first team, leaking the story to a national newspaper in an open challenge to Abramovich to sack him. On an emotional afternoon at Stamford Bridge the manager first rallied his team around him, then sent them out to overrun Wigan 4-0. Long before kick-off the Chelsea supporters were chanting 'Stand up for the Special One' through standing ovation after standing ovation.
An infuriated Abramovich ceased attending games and instructed his advisors to find a replacement coach. Mourinho let it be known that he would leave, but only on payment of the outstanding value of his contract - about £28m comprising £5.2m per annum for three-and-a-half years and up to £10m in bonuses. In the meantime he kept winning matches, pushing his injury-hit squad to within a few games of a remarkable quadruple.
Ultimately Chelsea won the League Cup and the FA Cup, forcing Abramovich to reconcile with his manager. A consciously 'mellow' Mourinho promised to avoid conflict with opposing managers and football authorities, accepted restrictions on his transfer budget, and reshaped his team in a more flamboyant 4-4-2 formation. Fatefully, he also acceded to the appointment of Grant as Chelsea's director of football.
Though some in Mourinho's camp had Grant pinned as a 'Mossad Spy' from the off, the manager attempted to work with him, holding long meetings with him during the club's staggeringly positive pre-season US tour and letting it be known that he welcomed his arrival as a buffer against Arnesen and route to Abramovich. The early-season optimism, however, swiftly evaporated.
Grant began calling individual players aside to ask them questions.
'You look sad, why?' 'How do you feel in this position?' 'Is this the best place for you to play?' 'Are we using your abilities well?' Because many of them complained about this to Mourinho, the manager decided to cut back radically on team meetings, the only one this season having been arranged for the Jewish New Year when Grant had returned to Israel.
While Grant looked on at training, Shevchenko treated it with disdain. A morose, lonely figure around the camp, he seemed to show more interest in improving his golf swing than his shooting. As the first team prepared for their final pre-season friendly against Danish side Brondby, Shevchenko declared himself unfit with a back problem. A 2-0 victory ensured the £121,000-a-week striker was not missed, but Mourinho was bemused to discover that Shevchenko's bad back had not prevented him from enjoying a round of golf at Sunningdale that day.
The board, though, were not interested and the club's descent continued. Other players began to realise what was happening, that the summer's peace was a false one, that their manager had no support from the top. 'The mentality became weaker and weaker,' said one insider. 'You could feel the team's strength sapping away.'
Mourinho knew his time at Chelsea was coming to an end. At Uefa's forum for elite coaches in Geneva a fortnight ago he allowed Premier League rivals an insight into his thinking. 'Mourinho said he loved Chelsea and he loved English football, but thought he would not stay for long,' said one coach. 'One of us asked him why. He wouldn't answer, but it was obvious something was seriously wrong.'
His next Champions League match brought the end. On Wednesday afternoon the board asked Mourinho to resign, citing his handling of Shevchenko, his attitude to authority and, crucially, his relationship with Terry as reasons why he should go. Mourinho refused to walk, and fought only to maximise his pay-off as Chelsea apparently threatened to call club employees to testify against him at any employment tribunal.
A £10.5m pay-off was agreed and the following morning Mourinho made a final trip to the training centre at Cobham to pick up his possessions and say goodbye to his squad. There was a message in each farewell. For most there was a Latin embrace and warm words of thanks. For Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard the emotions were so strong that both men were reduced to tears, Lampard retreating to the shower room in an attempt to hide his. For Shevchenko and Terry there was nothing but a handshake that, in the words of one observer, could have 'frozen a mug of tea'. No one was in any doubt about who he considered the true captains of his team.
Out with the old, in with the new. Furious at Mourinho's dismissal, senior players describe Grant's appointment as 'a disgrace'. Some at Cobham call him 'an idiot' and describe his coaching techniques as '25 years behind the times'. Abramovich pushes the Israeli around 'without a hint of respect'.
Former academy coach Brendan Rogers has been drafted in to help out with the first team, a promotion that may not be unconnected to the one-on-one training sessions he gave Abramovich's son. Only in Steve Clarke is there the level of football knowledge to deal with a squad full of international superstars. As the sole survivor of Mourinho's cadre of four assistant managers, the Scotsman has an unenviable task.
But then neither he nor Grant will be picking the team. As Michael Essien discovered on Tuesday night, the new manager of Chelsea is also the owner.
Scott Minto does have some lovely teeth though, money well spent.
Sky sports news is in full Mourinho mode
top story: his continued success drive and ambition made him the outstanding candidate
developing story: mourinho to be presented in press conference next monday at 1.30pm
At the minute they're playing a piece on the new wolves manager who their chairman unveiled as their own special one. Your last guess was pretty close Jim White is reading some Jamaican womans tweet.....
Turning this shite off.
Sky sports news is in full Mourinho mode
top story: his continued success drive and ambition made him the outstanding candidate
developing story: mourinho to be presented in press conference next monday at 1.30pm
At the minute they're playing a piece on the new wolves manager who their chairman unveiled as their own special one. Your last guess was pretty close Jim White is reading some Jamaican womans tweet.....
Turning this shite off.
Am I the only one who has nothing but utter contempt for this fucking airship of an ego on legs. Having to watch the media lap up every cod piece of wisdom he dishes out from on high as if he is Jesus Christ rolled into John Bishop rolled into Steven Hawkins will make me want to top myself. The way this thug gets smoke blown up his arse in this country is so sad its laughable.
Many will agree he's a nobhead.
I love this interview, in 40 seconds he passes some blame to the referee for his team being defeated by a team that cost probably a tenth of his side, pretends he's not actually blaming the ref, then starts his controversial cryptic bullshit and finally gets cut off just as he awaits the reaction to what he has said.
Link doesn't work right, it's meant to start a minute in
View: http://youtu.be/fMjpL0Qv85g?t=1m
Haha after he was totally outwitted by the REAL special one Herr Klopp. The odious one comes across as the clueless one - twat
If anything, Casillas shows tremendous class ... I bet he's saving all the juicy stuff for his autobiography:
He'll do well, but nowhere near as well as he did the first time he was at chelsea. I don't think he will be anywhere near as dominant as chelsea fans think he'll be. I think he's in for a shock. Most teams in the premiership played 442 when he was here and didn't know how to handle his 433.
A close mate, who's a diehard Chelsea fan, is totally unsure if this is the right move ... I think you'll find more fans like that - they've seen what he's done in Madrid, and despite his blabbering, he's not delivered what he was paid to deliver.
I also suspect the FA will try to stamp their authority on managers now that their bete noir Ginsoak has finally gone. While he was there, there was always a chance for other managers to point at him and say, 'Well, you let HIM off...!' Now I bet they try to establish a degree of consistency, and smacking down Maureen will suit them perfectly, so if he tries to start where he left off he could well be in for a surprise.
I think people saying he'll be a failure are hoping he will, not basing it on his teams performances of the last 10yrs. The bloke either wins the league, or is there abouts every single year. He's been slagged for this years performance of getting to the semi's of the champions league and only getting 85 points in the league and finishing second. If only we could have a season as shite as that. 85 points and a 'bad' season because he's expected to win every single game they play in - lol's
There were a surprising amount of Chelsea fans on tv saying they thought keeping Rafa might have been the right move for the club. They were nowhere near the majority though.
He won't fail as he's a good manager. But he won't be as dominant as he was before that's all.
At the very least he's coming into a tougher league, city and Tottenham weren't a consideration for him last time. Although IMO he's inheriting a better side than he got from Ranieri. There's a lot more super rich clubs now too competing for any players he's after.
After a nett spend of 360 euros I think 1 title and 1 spanish cup in 3 years is not all that when you are managing the supposed biggest club in the world! Of course he's not a shit manager but neither is he the messiah. Look who RM have to compete with Barcelona and none else.Some of these clubs have an income dwarfed by our championship sides, hardly competative
Interesting Tweets from Manc magazine ... Makes sense considering most of us were in awe of what a fucking ass licker Mourinho was being when they beat Manure at Old Toilet:
Red Issue @RedIssue
Mourinho was desperate for MUFC job and his camp attempted to contact Utd all day on the Weds Fergie quit. Eventually got in touch late on.
Red Issue @RedIssue
Mourinho left absolutely livid he was overlooked+had been led on by Fergie. Next year there'll be none of the humble nice guy of Feb/March.
Red Issue @RedIssue
Much more to come on the whole Fergie quitting episode. Stuff will prob start to leak out as and when Mourinho goes off on one next season.
Red Issue @RedIssue
Of course, none of this is news to any regulars on our Sanctuary forum.For all those asking, why on earth would we post it on here for free?
Red Issue @RedIssue
As we printed back in March, Fergie told Mourinho his intention was to do 1 more year, hence JM looking into short term options for 2013/14.
Red Issue @RedIssue
That's main reason he spoke to CFC - big game of brinkmanship. Anyone expecting The Ego to publically admit being spurned by MUFC is deluded
Red Issue @RedIssue
We've covered all this in RI for past 3 years. Open secret that Mourinho was desperate for MUFC job - its news only to delusional CFC fans.
Red Issue @RedIssue
Mourinho was desperate for MUFC job and his camp attempted to contact Utd all day on the Weds Fergie quit. Eventually got in touch late on.
Red Issue @RedIssue
Mourinho left absolutely livid he was overlooked+had been led on by Fergie. Next year there'll be none of the humble nice guy of Feb/March.
Red Issue @RedIssue
Much more to come on the whole Fergie quitting episode. Stuff will prob start to leak out as and when Mourinho goes off on one next season.
Red Issue @RedIssue
Of course, none of this is news to any regulars on our Sanctuary forum.For all those asking, why on earth would we post it on here for free?
Red Issue @RedIssue
As we printed back in March, Fergie told Mourinho his intention was to do 1 more year, hence JM looking into short term options for 2013/14.
Red Issue @RedIssue
That's main reason he spoke to CFC - big game of brinkmanship. Anyone expecting The Ego to publically admit being spurned by MUFC is deluded
Red Issue @RedIssue
We've covered all this in RI for past 3 years. Open secret that Mourinho was desperate for MUFC job - its news only to delusional CFC fans.
Interesting. Wonder if Ferguson actually did want Mourinho to follow him but the board decided against.
Wasn't it Fergie himself who told Mourinho that he was staying on?
Moyes was his first and only choice I reckon.
@Judge Jules
Moyes was his first and only choice I reckon.
@Judge Jules
Maybe the other way round - the board (or most except Charlton) wanted the big name (Pep, Mourinho) but Ferguson wanted the job for his pet Moyes. So he went about telling them he'd relinquish his role a season later. Once they'd committed to other sides, he sprung the surprise.
He (Ginsoak) would certainly have known before telling him anything that the board were against him. I remember mentioning when Maureen had that sick-making post-match interview about his deep love for the mancs that the directors had ruled him out and sanctioned Charlton to make public comments that suggested as much. That's why it seemed a bit puzzling that the 'need to be loved one' was embarrassing himself on the night with such guff.
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