Great game.
Best El Clasico since the Cup Final last season imo although i havent seen the others inbetween
Real :bow:
Immense performance.
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Great game.
Best El Clasico since the Cup Final last season imo although i havent seen the others inbetween
Real :bow:
Immense performance.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Hope he wins the title and CL and then leaves and takes on his biggest challenge ever and takes our Pub Team Side and make them successfulQuote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
Oh yeah. In a league with 2 teams in it he came 1st instead of 2nd. Genius :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
I think this puts an end to all the doubts about Mourinho, he's proved he can beat the best everywhere he's gone.
Great to see Real finally beat Barca to the league title.
Whoa. Hot WUM on WUM action here ##Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Yesssss!
I didn't think it was possible tbh. Say what you want about Mourinho - and we do - winning the title from, arguably, the best team in history, takes some doing.
He's a genius alright, look at his record at all his clubs..don't remember a 7 year drought either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
In addition Barca were apparently the best team in the world, thus beating them to the title is some feat.
La Liga is better than our leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
:lol: He's won trophies with bottomless pots of money. Genius!
Best in the world at what he doesQuote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
BBLs have all gone quiet :lol:
Incredible how he takes the minnows of world football to glory.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
Maybe. Only 2 teams can realistically win it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Just like our league when he took over at Chelsea...it was only us or Mancs winning it....and he changed all thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
What a man
What a coach
Mourinho :bow:
Of course it is, he's proven he can beat the best in every league he's been in...he's delivery the CL at clubs that had no chance or were desperate for a win and is the only guy who's outdone Ferguson over a period. Some record.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Syn
More like best team in an incredibly utterly weak era.
Yeah, sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobson's choice
Porto weren't exactly giants.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
Chelsea hadn't won a title for years before him.
Inter were desperate for the CL after years and year of failure and he won it and topped it off with the treble.
Now he's outdone Barca.
Quite some achievement if you ask me, or anyone who doesn't hate him and refuses to give him his dues.
Puyol :lol:
Why didnt he just clear it instead of shielding it for the first goal?
Pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
Plus it should be seen as a plus that big clubs want him, not a negative.
Nope. When he took over Chelsea had already bought their way to 2nd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Real were very clear in 2nd, and very close to Barca, when he took over there too.
He's a good manager but he's hardly transformed the fortunes of either club, they'd already done most of the work before he got there.
Pretty muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Look at the quality of teams post 2006 WC, it's bad, just about every big team quality wise has gotten worse. The level players after the 2006 WC it's nowhere near the level of players from the 1998 to 2006 World Cups.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syn
Whatever you think of Mourinho, he's definitely a great manager. He's succeeded in every league that he's been a manager in, taking teams that were previously unsuccessful in their recent history and then converting them into winners. Sure, he's a dickhead but tactically he's brilliant, on a different level to Wenger.
They hadn't had a billionaire for years before him either.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
They'd already bought their way to 2nd before he got there. He pushed them on but most of the work was done before he arrived.
Don't get me wrong, he's a great manager. Let's see him win the league with a team like Spurs who haven't done so for yonks and don't have a billionaire backer though.
Chelsea were nowhere near the title though, he made them winners and dominated the league...he's really the only guy who's been able to outdo Ferguson consistently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Barca were the best around and arguably one of the best teams ever, to beat them is about as good as it gets to be honest.
In Portugal - Porto were and are giants.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
Chelsea - do I need to explain that to you? Really?
Inter - again resource laden
RM - it is them or Barca
He is a good manager - no doubt, he wouldn't get those jobs otherwise, but by god, you can bet your ass that when you are watching a shite game where he is involved (there are many) he'll usually come out on top.
If you don't give a fuck how ugly and how sick the methods are to win, he's your man.
Why are you mentioning the World Cup? :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by hobson's choice
Came to England at the time of the Invincibles and oversaw us at a time where we looked like ruling for years to comeQuote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
And now done the same to Barca
Best manager in the world by some distance
Fergie 2nd
spot onQuote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
Ranieri was around when Abrahmovic arrived, in addition Chelsea spent loads with Vialli and Gullit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
He didn't spend huge amounts at Inter either, he just bought the right players and made them play for each other.
Rafas "fuck-oos" :bow:
Porto won the CL, they were giants in Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
Chelsea had gone I don't know how long before winning a title.
Inter hadn't won the CL in yonks and once again he delivered, easy to say they were resource laden, fact is no other manager could deliver what he did.
I'd rather have someone who will do what it takes to win than to have a manager who is indifferent about it.
I don't find the football Real play bad at all, in fact it's rather good to watch.....in addition they are successful, Inter were good to watch too IMO.
Consistently? He was only there 3 years. They won the league twice, the 3rd of those years ManYoo won it again and Mourinho got sacked.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
As for Real, they finished 3 points off Barca with 96 points (the 3rd placed team got 71 points) the season before he got there. He's hardly transformed them from also-rans to champions, they were already very close to Barca before he got there.
I think that's garbage. There's no way to conclusively prove either view but whilst we all hate the money involved these days, the standard of football has only got higher. In terms of footballing technique, this Barca team are widely regarded to be the best ever. And whilst we can quibble over whether they actually are, it takes some doing to beat them over a 38 game season.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobson's choice
I always believe in the saying 'the league table never lies'. This season, I think it will have lied. Barcelona are better than Real Madrid. It takes a great manager to pull that off IMO.
Real have just broken the goal scoring record in spain in one seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
And they have scored 5+ countless times this season
Ridiculous to say they play shit football
Hes WUMming
They really arentQuote:
Originally Posted by Syn
League table never lies after all
He spent about €60m Euros in his first summer with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
But there is no manager in the world who could take someone like Tottenham and make them into Championship winning material in a short space of time. The manager in football is important of course, but they can't do miracles without the resources in hand. You have to have a decent base of players with which you can work with. Wenger had that as well, when we won the double in 97-98, so it's not as if he turned our fortunes around singlehandedly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Mancini spent a lot more and did f all in the CLQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Mourinho comes in and they do the reble