Jose Mourinho - Why Always Him?

          This week Jose Mourinho has made his way into the headlines yet again. Starting off with his negative football style managing to scrape three points against Liverpool, falling out with yet another manager, and then crashing out of the UEFA Champions League by trying to play the same negative football style. For a long time now, I have greatly disliked the man, who in my opinion isn't as good a coach as some might have you believe.

Mourinho, pictured with his mentor, Sir Bobby Robson and the original Ronaldo.

          Ok, I admit that he did well at Porto. Winning what he did with so little in funds was a fantastic achievement but the natural talent already in that squad will have helped him no end. Here's where the trouble starts though as far as I'm concerned.

          At Chelsea, he walked into a club that he admitted he wasn;t that interested in managing, only taking the job when Liverpool appointed Rafa Benitez over him. In his first transfer window. in 2004, he spent £70 million on players to add to his squad. Over half of that sum was spent between two players (Didier Drogba and Michael Essien). In his first spell at Chelsea he won six trophies in three seasons. This includes two Premier League titles.

Drogaba and Kezman, two of Mourinho's signing lift the League Cup together.

          The Mourinho we saw at Inter Milan is my personal favourite. He promoted youth, extended the career of Luis Figo and didn't break the bank. He was a success in Italy as a coach, not for buying the best players in every position as he could do at Chelsea and a t future clubs. What let him down, is still letting him down today. he runs his mouth far too much. he fell out with no fewer than 6 managers during his spell as Internationale manager, including Ranieri and Lippi. Hi time in Milan came to an end in 2010 on a positive though, becoming the first side to win the treble, winning his second Champions League in the process with a 2-0 win over Bayern Munich.

          The Portuguese time at Madrid was mixed. But it's hard to argue against any of the trophies he did win being helped massively by just buying whoever he needed to fill a gap. He also showed off his now common place shit-housery. Fighting during El Classico's, inlcuding poking Tito Villanova in the eye, accusing referees of bias towards Barcelona, and frequent fallings out with club legends such as Sergio Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo and Iker Casillas, who was dropped by Mourinho much to the distaste of the Madrid supporters.

During his time at Madrid, Jose spent a lot of time with footballs second best player.

            Upon Mourinho's Chelsea return he did it again. He bought expensive players that would provide instant results rather than trying to be tactical and coach his players how Conte would later do at Chelsea. He won the league cup and then won the league itself later that year in the only two trophies during his second tenure at the Blues.

            Following his sacking from Chelsea, He moved to Manchester United the following summer. He spent big money yet again, on Pogba and Bailly to name a few. In his first season he was a perceived success, winning three trophies. Those were the Charity Shield, the League Cup and The Europa League. So, he won a game that is considered a pre-season friendly, England's second rate competition and Europe's second rate competition. I call this perceived success because although it was a treble, they finished sixth in the premier league and only made it into the Champions League due to win the Europa League.

Manchester United celebrate completing the treble, Mourinho is front and centre. As usual.

          I'm not denying that Mourinho has been successful. My only issue is the way that he has gone about it. He just always seems to buy his success. Signing expensive players andnot having much interest in youth development."

"Why play Rashford the young English talented striker, when I can spend £75m on Lukaku and Rashford can play on the wing. Oh wait, I'll sign Sanchez for the wing and bomb Rashford Completely."

          His negative tactics make football look boring, and at a club like Manchester United, parking the bus was unheard of. What kind of supporter likes to watch his/her team sit back and not attempt to score? It makes it even better when they let themselves down, like they  did last night against Sevilla.

          The last thing that really annoys me is the fact he spends more time talking to the press than any other manager. Only this week he criticised Frank De Boer in the press, calling him the worst manager in Premier League history. he said this because De Boer criticised his negative tactics whilst doing some punditry.He does this frequently, as noted above. Someone will do something, be it make a comment on TV or to a Newspaper and all of a sudden Mourinho makes it into an argument. It's pathetic and unnecessary.

Rant over. 

Until next time though.

Craig.