Jose The Whore?

[Red Astaire]

Sounds like bollocks but funny if true. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...x-page-love-letter-i-can-change-a6829971.html

Jose Mourinho has written Manchester United a six-page letter explaining his strong desire to manage the club and how he would be willing to adhere to United’s principles. He also outlined his plans for the team, and the key decisions he would take.
Mourinho, who was sacked by Chelsea last month, believes that a detailed charm offensive can finally secure his dream job of managing United once his old mentor Louis van Gaal leaves, and that departure is now widely expected to come in the summer.
Though Mourinho immediately targeted United as his next job after leaving Chelsea, the 52-year-old was keen not to step on Van Gaal’s toes. He worked for the Dutch coach at Barcelona between 1997-2000, and greatly respects him.

 

[doctor_mac]

I'm prepared to believe anything that portrays Maureen in a negative light.

 

[HC]

I think at six pages , it leaves letter territory and enters the domain of brochure or 'booklet' which altogether makes him sound more desperate !

 

[6TimesaRed]

Apparently he sought advice from Michael Owen to help prepare the dossier

 

[Judge Jules]

I can well believe it. He's been gagging for that job for years. Even going to Chavski the second time was second best for him.

 

[Dreambeliever]

I really hope this doesn't happen. I want Utd to fall away completely and he's never failed to win a title wherever he has gone

 

[leftpeg]

I bet he doesn't provide details of his plan for the third season.

 

[Rosco]

I'd be prepared to believe. Especially since United met with Pep last week

 

[rurikbird]

I totally believe he wrote the letter/brochure. The fact that it got leaked probably made Jose furious (his agent obviously had to step right away in to deny it – what else were they going to do?) and probably makes it less likely that he will get the job. Not because he will refuse, but because it's probably got leaked on purpose by the anti-Mourinho faction at the club.

If there was a consensus to hire him, they would have done it already. I believe LVG will step down very soon and Giggs will be the caretaker. They will make it more palatable to United fans by announcing that Fergusson will help out by "advising" Giggs.

 

[mark1975]

A six page letter outlining how he'll turn United into an ultra defensive unit and 90% of its attacking talent into workhorses. That's a big transition all right. Oh.

 

[reuque]

Just love it how Duncan Castles the Chavski arse-licker went into overdrive denying the story and try to doubt credibility of other journalists on Mourinho's letter. Made me believe that he really did write it.

 

[manwithnoname]

Just love it how Duncan Castles the Chavski arse-licker went into overdrive denying the story and try to doubt credibility of other journalists on Mourinho's letter. Made me believe that he really did write it.

Who is Duncan Castles?

 

[gkmacca]

I'm amazed that ponderous, prolix, puffed-up poltroon managed to cram it all into six pages. He's the type whose Christmas letter would end up being printed as a paperback. Page 26: 'As I believe I said some time earlier, I am a top-top person, personality and manager. In fact, other top-top managers have all said that I am THE top-top manager in whole world. I am way too modest to say that myself, but you must be idiot to disagree with views of all these top-top experts on who is most top-top manager...' [cont. pp.27-118.]

 

[Best Believe It]

Who is Duncan Castles?

Journalist who is employed by the sunday times amongst others. Essentially is PR for Jorge Mendes and Mourinho. Sickeningly so. According to him Jose turned down Real Madrid when Benitez was in charge and turned down Man Utd in favour of the Chelsea job two and a half years ago, despite the rest of the football journalistic world knowing both those 'stories' aren't true.

He ran stories when Jose was out of a job that Perez was 'desperate' for Mourinho to come back to Real Madrid, then ran stories that he'd turned them down so they had to appoint Zidane instead. Spends most of his time on twitter slagging off anyone considered to be a rival to JM (Van Gaal, Guardiola, Benitez, Wenger) and is now actually claiming there was a refereeing conspiracy against Mourinho when at Chelsea.

 

[gkmacca]

It's true with Castles, he established close links with Maureen's camp a couple of years ago and eagerly prints what they want placed publicly. He was the one who came closest to revealing that Eva Carneiro had a fling with one of the players. If that does come out he'll almost certainly be the one to break it.

 

[Woland]

Apologies for linking to a site called the fucking banter narrative but I just googled this guy and this came up. Seems apt:

Duncan Castles has written a 66 page letter to Jose Mourinho explaining his strong desire to be at one with the former Chelsea manager and how he would be willing to change his ways to be with the Portuguese manager for eternity.
According to sources close to the journalist and manager, Castles believes strongly that he is the best person for Mourinho, and has laid out a meticulous list of reasons as to why he and the manager should be together.
In his document to Mourinho, described as an “in-depth dossier” by sources, Castles details several areas of Mourinho’s personality, explaining how he would best compliment the manager’s different traits with his own.
“Duncan has really shown his ambition to be with Jose and have him all for himself with this letter. It will certainly give Jose something to think about,” said an unnamed source, adding that the coach had been “tentatively terrified” by the forensic analysis undertaken by Castles.
“He hopes that his stellar record of loyalty to Jose will eventually be the defining factor in Jose’s decision. He really wants this one.”
At press time, a patient Castles insisted that he would be willing to wait for Mourinho to make a decision, insisting that “love has no deadline”.

http://thebanternarrative.com/

 

[manwithnoname]

Journalist who is employed by the sunday times amongst others. Essentially is PR for Jorge Mendes and Mourinho. Sickeningly so. According to him Jose turned down Real Madrid when Benitez was in charge and turned down Man Utd in favour of the Chelsea job two and a half years ago, despite the rest of the football journalistic world knowing both those 'stories' aren't true.

He ran stories when Jose was out of a job that Perez was 'desperate' for Mourinho to come back to Real Madrid, then ran stories that he'd turned them down so they had to appoint Zidane instead. Spends most of his time on twitter slagging off anyone considered to be a rival to JM (Van Gaal, Guardiola, Benitez, Wenger) and is now actually claiming there was a refereeing conspiracy against Mourinho when at Chelsea.

Thanks. I've never heard of him, but reading your post means that I must have read some of his work, first hand or otherwise.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Defiantly think there is some truth this story……….Jose usually prepares a Presentation back for any job he is interested in.


He prepared a presentation even when he was Interviewed for the England job a few years ago.



The love letter headline is obviously OTT, though Mendes statement doesn’t deny the story...

 

[manwithnoname]

Defiantly think there is some truth this story……….Jose usually prepares a Presentation back for any job he is interested in.


He prepared a presentation even when he was Interviewed for the England job a few years ago.

I'm pretty sure almost every manager does that. Sam Allardyce even used PowerPoint for his "amazing" England interview.

 

[gkmacca]

And don't forget that American owners prefer a much more formal and elaborate application for these kinds of jobs than traditional British owners do. If they really want someone, as FSG did with Klopp, then, yes, they just seek him out, but otherwise, as FSG did the last time, they invite people to show they fit the model, which is why Brendan's fabled dossier did so well.

It's still a bit naive in this context - a bit like a movie producer asking an actor if he can drive, ride horses and swim, only to find out on set that he can't do any of these things. Maureen will get his people to tick all the right boxes for the sceptical manc directors, and then, a few months on, it'll be the same old attritional style on the pitch.

 

[Best Believe It]

I'm pretty sure almost every manager does that. Sam Allardyce even used PowerPoint for his "amazing" England interview.

Wasn't it the case that Sam wanted to use Powerpoint, had prepared a fancy presentation (presumably with text animation, that's what I do when I don't have anything interesting to say) but the FA didn't have facilities for powerpoint so he had to print out his slides.

I also think he feels that counted against him for the job.

 

[manwithnoname]

Wasn't it the case that Sam wanted to use Powerpoint, had prepared a fancy presentation (presumably with text animation, that's what I do when I don't have anything interesting to say) but the FA didn't have facilities for powerpoint so he had to print out his slides.

I also think he feels that counted against him for the job.

Yes, I read that too. But I'm not sure he felt the lack of A/V facilities counted against him. The fact that he had slides at all seemed to be impressive enough. And PowerPoint slides are still PowerPoint slides even if they're just printed off.

You have a point about the animation though. Maybe he had some moving arrows on his proposed line-up, and interesting builds that made it look like something off a Sky pre-match discussion. Imagine!

 

[Hansern]

Well, Pep seems a certain for City job so I guess this could be true. Ancelotti is going to take over Bayern and that probably leaves Simeone as the other really top manager that they can be interested in. Chelsea will probably go all in for him.

Mourinho must know that Utd can get a bit desperate in regards to who they'll be after this summer.

 

[Woland]

I doubt Manure haven't got their next manager lined up yet.

 

[gkmacca]

Allardyce: The Aftermyth



Sam Allardyce has revealed that a lack of PowerPoint facilities at the FA thwarted his hopes of becoming England manager in 2006.

Sven-Goran Eriksson was relieved of his position in the wake of a frustrating World Cup campaign and the then Bolton manager was keen to be given an opportunity to work at international level.

Although Allardyce initially thought the FA would install a foreign coach to succeed the Swede he decided to attend an interview for the vacant position.

"I was sure the FA would go out and get another foreigner.

"But it became apparent they were positively encouraging English candidates to throw their hats into the ring.

"The longer I thought about it, the more I felt I should get it," Allardyce told the S*n as part of a serialisation of 'Big Sam - My Autobiography'.

But the 60-year-old's plans to convince the interview panel that he was the man for the job were dealt a blow when he learned that his meticulously planned PowerPoint presentation had to be delivered via print outs.

"I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail.

"There was nothing missing. Nobody but nobody was going to beat it.

"But then Brian Barwick, the chief executive, told me there were no PowerPoint facilities at the interview venue, so I had to print off hard copies for the panel.

"So much for the progressive FA."

Allardyce eventually missed out to Steve McClaren, whose stint in charge of the Three Lions proved to be short lived after he failed to qualify for Euro 2008.





Other things that thwarted Sam:

The weather outside was too wet.

The temperature inside was too high.

The alignment of star signs was wrong.

It was his period.

The EEC was still there.

People were still getting over The Beatles breaking up.

It was the Licence Fee.

He had taken an immodium.

He had the wrong surname.

he had the wrong first name.

His jib had been mis-cut.

Aliens.

It was Rafa's fault.

 

[RedRedRed]

This can't be true.. surely just a charm offensive by his agent to try and get him in the door!