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Jose Mourinho

How do you feel about Mourinho appointment

  • Excited - silverware here we come baby

    Votes: 666 46.7%

  • Meh - will give him a chance and hope he is successful

    Votes: 468 32.8%

  • Horrified - praying for the day he'll fuck off

    Votes: 292 20.5%
  • Total voters
    1,426
arunspurs

arunspurs

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Aug 31, 2012
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We played a bit poorly and IMO it was down to the players - slow reactions, bad first touch , bad passing etc... it got nothing to do with manager.
Newcastle came at us , we defended well but couldn’t make the best of the counterattacks with above said issues...
I am confident we will finish the season well and next season will play better and finish in CL places.
Only thing needed is Fans to start backing Jose and give him the time on the job
 
TEESSIDE1

TEESSIDE1

Married, new job and Spurs on the up!
Jul 3, 2006
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Danny1 said:
It’s almost like people feel they are cheating on Poch by saying good things about Mourinho. We were utter tripe for a year under Poch and amassed 25 points from 24 league games while crashing out of the cup to Colchester etc etc.

Mourinho has come in, is the third best manager in the league in that time and has stopped us conceding a huge amounts of goals.
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Our performances may not have been great but you can’t complain about our record since the lockdown:

Played - 7
Won - 4
Drew - 2
Lost - 1

We’ve achieved this despite rarely getting out of 1st gear. Imagine how good we will be with reinforcements at full back and a new decent central midfielder.

Mourinho’s tactics may not be pretty but they’re effective. Add a few new players and we’ll back up there pushing for a top 4 finish and competing in the domestic trophies.
 
ikky

ikky

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Dec 6, 2006
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Well done Jose and the boys. I was strongly in favour of his appointment but I was having serious doubts and became disillusioned after the shef united and Bournemouth games but credit to the man, he’s doing the best with the tools he has and although it’s not pretty, it’s effective. I believe with some of his own additions next season we could challenge for top 4 and win a trophy.
 
Shadydan

Shadydan

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Jul 7, 2012
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Danny1 said:
It’s almost like people feel they are cheating on Poch by saying good things about Mourinho. We were utter tripe for a year under Poch and amassed 25 points from 24 league games while crashing out of the cup to Colchester etc etc.

Mourinho has come in, is the third best manager in the league in that time and has stopped us conceding a huge amounts of goals.
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Yeah it's all well and good constantly saying that we look poor or playing turgid football but there has to be a reference point and a comparison, as mentioned our displays and our form were pretty crap last season and the start of this season so it's not as we were pulling up trees then Jose came in and coached it out of us. We were playing utter shite beforehand, does anyone actually remember, we were having the same debates under latter Poch that we have no cohesion, players look burnt out, no patterns of play and wondering where the press went etc...these arguments were literally happening a year ago and we have been on a downward trend for two years so why suddenly do people expect that we play like vintage 2016/17 Spurs under a new manager?

But I get it Jose comes with a narrative surrounding him that he plays dull/negative football and people just cannot wait to throw it at it because it just suits their confirmation bias especially those who cannot take to him but they're not being fair and purposely lacking context in their argument just because it falls in line with their agenda. This is why you have to give him time, we have been lacking confidence for ages and our defense was like a sieve so the first things you fix naturally is the defense and the mentality which allows us to stay in matches and let the forwards take care of things up front, build a base - build confidence and go from there.
 
PeeEyeEmPee

PeeEyeEmPee

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Aug 31, 2012
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SecretLemonadeDrinker said:
Correct me if I’m wrong but your point seems to be that Jose’s last PL title was 5 years ago and his last Champions League title was 10 years ago - and that those achievements are sufficiently long ago to be largely irrelevant now.

That is a highly subjective judgement.

So while your point might ring true to you, it doesn’t to others (who look at the fact that he has only managed two whole seasons since his last PL win and managed to win two trophies in that time - as many as Spurs have won in 29 whole seasons).
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If that's your understanding of what I'm saying, then I'm not quite sure where we go from here.

I'm not against Mourinho being given more time, but I just don't understand this assumption (from some) that we'll eventually win things if he is. His reputation as a "guaranteed" winner was largely built on the early part of his career, and both the number and prestige of trophies he's won in recent years have reduced. That's just fact. Can he win things with us? Possibly, but it's by no means the certainty or high likelihood some seem to think. Ordinarily, you put up with the toxicity and boring football if it means winning, but I don't think it's a given it will here. I think there's far greater chance of him leaving amid a shitstorm just as he's done at Real, Chelsea and Man U in his last three jobs.

I'm happy to be proven wrong, of course, but I don't see how anyone can objectively disagree with the above
 
rossdapep

rossdapep

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Aug 25, 2011
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JCRD said:


He is a funny guy
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Ya know what, I think he's angling to get under Pep's skin again.........and I'm ready for it!!

In all seriousness I hope we go into these big games with this siege mentality, I didn't particularly like how nasty it got in El Classico at times but we need this club to face off against our rivals with a "you have to fight us" approach. Poch did create an element of that but he struggled to do it in the semi finals and games in which we absolutely had to win. Only time we saw it like that was the Battle of the Bridge and that was largely cause the title was slipping and Chelsea had been sniping at us all week - we kinda played into their hands. Would be nice to think we can play that game in a final.
 
HildoSpur

HildoSpur

Likes Erik Lamela, deal with it.
Oct 1, 2005
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rossdapep said:
Ya know what, I think he's angling to get under Pep's skin again.........and I'm ready for it!!

In all seriousness I hope we go into these big games with this siege mentality, I didn't particularly like how nasty it got in El Classico at times but we need this club to face off against our rivals with a "you have to fight us" approach. Poch did create an element of that but he struggled to do it in the semi finals and games in which we absolutely had to win. Only time we saw it like that was the Battle of the Bridge and that was largely cause the title was slipping and Chelsea had been sniping at us all week - we kinda played into their hands. Would be nice to think we can play that game in a final.
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Jose is the master of this kind of stuff and you are right - it is exactly what the club needs.
 
doctor stefan Freud

doctor stefan Freud

the tired tread of sad biology
Sep 2, 2013
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Just dipped in here. Can’t believe there’s still fanny batters moaning about Mourinho. Sheff Utd aside, we look so much better at the back and the deep block counterattacking strategy is slowly coming together. At least let’s reserve our self righteous ire and fury until November/ December
 
fishhhandaricecake

fishhhandaricecake

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Nov 15, 2018
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ikky said:
Well done Jose and the boys. I was strongly in favour of his appointment but I was having serious doubts and became disillusioned after the shef united and Bournemouth games but credit to the man, he’s doing the best with the tools he has and although it’s not pretty, it’s effective. I believe with some of his own additions next season we could challenge for top 4 and win a trophy.
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Exactly all the same as me :)
COYS
 
fishhhandaricecake

fishhhandaricecake

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Nov 15, 2018
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rossdapep said:
Ya know what, I think he's angling to get under Pep's skin again.........and I'm ready for it!!

In all seriousness I hope we go into these big games with this siege mentality, I didn't particularly like how nasty it got in El Classico at times but we need this club to face off against our rivals with a "you have to fight us" approach. Poch did create an element of that but he struggled to do it in the semi finals and games in which we absolutely had to win. Only time we saw it like that was the Battle of the Bridge and that was largely cause the title was slipping and Chelsea had been sniping at us all week - we kinda played into their hands. Would be nice to think we can play that game in a final.
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Agree.
Poch was a bit soft and didn’t get the media right, I can already feel Jose is slowly building a seige mentality again, enjoy the ride pps.
 
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