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Chelsea's arrival in Istanbul for their Champions League reunion with Didier Drogba was overshadowed on Monday night by a row over a series of unguarded but highly disparaging remarks by Jose Mourinho about the club's strikers, reports the Telegraph. Mourinho was recorded by the French television company Canal Plus in what he thought was a private conversation with the owner of the Swiss watch manufacturer Hublot. "I have a team but no striker," said Mourinho. "The problem at Chelsea is that we are lacking a goalscorer. I have one [Samuel Eto'o] but he is 32, possibly 35, who knows?"



Would be funny if Eto'o sues him
 
I hope this is helps them unravel, though I cannot believe for the life of me Mourinho did this without good reason. He's too smart to get caught out like that.
 
I don't know if you've ever read The Diary of a Nobody (IMHO one of the funniest books ever written), but Mourinho's impact on the hacks always reminds me of Hardfur Huttle's impact on Mr Pooter: a dubious windbag whose views so dazzle his listeners that they are taken as brilliant even when they are banal or bathetic:

I sat next to Mrs. Field at dinner. She seemed a well-informed lady, but was very deaf. It did not much matter, for Mr. Hardfur Huttle did all the talking. He is a marvellously intellectual man and says things which from other people would seem quite alarming. How I wish I could remember even a quarter of his brilliant conversation. I made a few little reminding notes on the menû card.
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Might be giving him too much cedit, but this could be just his ploy to stir his strikers into action after futile attempts in talking to them within the walls. "You guys are shit" in the dressing room isn't as powerful as "My strikers are shit - oops!" in the public.

Anyway, Torres should be so worked up now he'll go out and be hyper-aggressive, pick up a red card and crock himself in the process. Not that Chelsea will miss a mediocre striker though, 'cos Mourinho said so.
 
The Italian media saw him for what he was - a great manager who is nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is, and sometimes capable of being really silly, stupid or childish - so of course he hated them with a passion. I bet he can't believe his luck here. Mention 'little horses' and the hacks treat it like a brilliant bouncing bomb of a remark, kept going only by their own inane obsession with asking every other manager for a comment. Make a lame insult of another boss and they act as if Kant has just goosed Hegel. It's a man of very average intelligence commanding a bunch of buffoons. Mind games my arse!
 
I'm sure Torres will be glad to know that Maureen thinks Eto'o is his only goalscorer.

But the truth is Maureen's comments will only endear him further to the Chelsea faithful.

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I'm not sure where I stand on all this TBH. For sure he's a legend in his own lunchtime, if he were made of chocolate he'd eat himself etc.BUT his winning record is phenomenal and so is his ability to inspire loyalty in players, not only his own - for example, without his personal involvement I doubt Stevie would ever have got as close as he did to jumping ship and joining the Chavs. I don't feel qualified to pronounce on his general intelligence, but the fact that he has real psychological insight and the ability to put it into practice seems beyond doubt to me.
 
It's indiscriminate. That's the main weakness with his games. Clough, in his pre-sozzled state, had a near forensic focus when it came to when to wind someone up and when to, as Paisley put it, 'throw 'em some taffy'. Shanks was the same. With Mourinho he tries it when it's relevant and he also tries it when it isn't. Take a recent example: his birthday was coming up, and one hack told him, privately, that Benitez had brought some cake in for his press conference. So Maureen goes off and orders two crates of Cristal champagne and tells them triumphantly: 'That's better than cake, isn't it?' Now that just seems childish and pathetic. But they even called that 'mind games'. Was it? Benitez (who I bet thinks of Mourinho far less often than Mourinho thinks of Rafa) couldn't give a toss. It's just the action of a very needy, attention-seeking, deep down painfully insecure character.
 
gkmacca said:
It's indiscriminate. That's the main weakness with his games. Clough, in his pre-sozzled state, had a near forensic focus when it came to when to wind someone up and when to, as Paisley put it, 'throw 'em some taffy'. Shanks was the same. With Mourinho he tries it when it's relevant and he also tries it when it isn't. Take a recent example: his birthday was coming up, and one hack told him, privately, that Benitez had brought some cake in for his press conference. So Maureen goes off and orders two crates of Cristal champagne and tells them triumphantly: 'That's better than cake, isn't it?' Now that just seems childish and pathetic. But they even called that 'mind games'. Was it? Benitez (who I bet thinks of Mourinho far less often than Mourinho thinks of Rafa) couldn't give a toss. It's just the action of a very needy, attention-seeking, deep down painfully insecure character.
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Oh, no doubt about that. I guess what I'm saying is that that's not all there is to him, and that the other side of him demands real respect.

Incidentally, has anyone else ever got under his skin as much as Rafa has? It was painfully obvious when Rafa was still Liverpool manager and, to judge from your anecdote above, it still is. 😀
 
And to think some people wanted him here. Bob Wilson summed him up. A bully and boring. He's the perfect Chelski manager.
 
I respect him. But at the same time I keep wishing a car ran over him.

Was thinking about it recently. I realize that during the time when Ancelotti and then Benitez were in charge, I didn't mind Chelsea all that much. I still resented them (esp over Torres) but I didn't obsess over them. They were just another club. With mourinho back it's like they're right back into the clubs I hate category. Up there with Man Utd.

Truth be told, I feel the same way with Everton. With Martinez taking over I find it a wee bit harder to hate them
 
Agree about the blueslime but not about the Chavs. For one thing I don't attach that much importance to Mourinho, and for another there's no way on this or any other planet that I will ever despise another club the way I do ManUre.
 
He poked a man with cancer in the eye a few years back.
He's a fucking slimey dirtbag.
 
Leo said:
He poked a man with cancer in the eye a few years back.
He's a fucking slimey dirtbag.
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Tito got cancer well after the eye poking.

Mourinho in an interview last year was asked "If you had 3 wishes blah blah" and the 1st thing he said was "Tito would be cured from cancer." Yeah, he's a slimey twat as a manager but I think it's a calculated show most of the time.
 
He's attacking everyone huh?

[article=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2567885/Mancini-builds-5-teams-I-create-champions-Mind-game-master-Mourinho-finds-new-target.html#ixzz2uO5ScUxK ]Galatasaray coach Mancini has made it past this last-16 stage only once and never beyond the quarter-finals, which may have been why it so tickled Mourinho to find his predecessor at Inter claiming some of the credit for their Champions League title in 2010.

‘It’s funny, it’s funny,’ sniggered the Chelsea manager. ‘It’s funny because my team in the final had Lucio, Thiago Motta, Diego Milito, Samuel Eto’o, Goran Pandev and Wesley Sneijder.

'From 11 players, he didn’t work with six of them. So he made a five-a-side team because I played with only five players from his team.’[/article]
 
gkmacca said:
The Italian media saw him for what he was - a great manager who is nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is, and sometimes capable of being really silly, stupid or childish - so of course he hated them with a passion. I bet he can't believe his luck here. Mention 'little horses' and the hacks treat it like a brilliant bouncing bomb of a remark, kept going only by their own inane obsession with asking every other manager for a comment. Make a lame insult of another boss and they act as if Kant has just goosed Hegel. It's a man of very average intelligence commanding a bunch of buffoons. Mind games my arse!
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I would agree if he didn't keep wining all the time.
 
It was pretty obvious to everyone in the world other than gin-soak that Maureen would have been his perfect successor. Completely unscrupulous cunt who creates a siege mentality, attracts top players and is a winner. And he's not the kind of winner who doesn't need to win stuff. He's a winning winner. Slur Alex, I thank you. I thank you.
 
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