Jose Mourinho

[jonnyrotten]

I really have to laugh at some of you morons, who the fuck do you think you are to question mourinho managing us, like we're some sort of godly side that is too good for him. We've just been dicked by half of the utter drivel in this league.

He's a huge statement for us and a fantastic appointment. As with any manager, he'll have my full support, that's because I support Tottenham Hotspur.

Cheers for calling a big section of the club's fanbase morons because they don't agree with your view mate

 

[felmani26]

This is equivalent to when we hired George Graham. A manager with pedigree but he will only ever be one bad performance away from being booed as the playing style is so dire. While Liverpool/Man City are playing attacking football with verve and pinache we can look forward parking the bus at home to Leicester with a midifield 3 or Wanyama, Dier and Sissoko.

My desire to win trophies isn't at the expense of good football like someone of you. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive as has been proven by Liverpool and Man City. It's part of our dna to play good football and it's pure short-terminism to bring in a coach who's default is anti-football.

He just isn't a nice guy either. Since when he guaged the Barcelona's coach's eye out and abused the female Chelsea doctor, he has shown what a unlikeable character he is. I'm too moralistic to get behind somone like that. I support the club so hope he does well but I will never back him as a man.

There is only the truly tenuous equivalence when we appointed George Graham in '98 when we were in relative obscurity to appointing a manager of Mourinho's caliber and worldwide reputation in today's climate.

This is by far and away the most ambitious and boldest appointment in my lifetime as a Spurs fan and whilst of course Jose is not without risk, this is a watershed moment for us as a club to marry silverware with the playing staff and world class infrastructure we have.

In short, get behind him!

 

[max cady]

Jose is now our manager now lets get behind him. There is a lot of talk about his past however I for one think he has learnt from his previous mistakes. At Utd in his final days he looked tired I believe this almost year out has reinvigorated him. In the past we have gone for the soft approach. We need a Mourinho type, as one poster already alluded to imagine walking onto the training ground this morning or afternoon and you see Jose he would instill fear in you. As with Poch I will support Jose and good luck to him.

 

[thfc1989]

Which players from our squad do we think will benefit most from him joining?

 

[Hawk_Spur]

I don’t get the stuff about Jose and ugly football.... guess they haven’t watched Tottenham play since January.

It will likely end poorly as it has with Jose and his other tenures but I just want to see Spurs lift some silverware and this bloke has the best record in the business.

 

[richard_gleeson]

Which players from our squad do we think will benefit most from him joining?

Toby, Eriksen, Dier, Sissoko, Lucas, Kane, Son

 

[Donki]

I don’t get the stuff about Jose and ugly football.... guess they haven’t watched Tottenham play since January.

It will likely end poorly as it has with Jose and his other tenures but I just want to see Spurs lift some silverware and this bloke has the best record in the business.

Jose's football at United was ugly by design, I think that's the point people are making. We have been shite for a season but I don't think that was how Poch wanted us to play.

 

[KILLA_SIN]

TBF to Jose I think he will get us qualified for Champs League this year we are playing most of the big games at home in the run in. Im not happy, Poch was asked to qualify for CL while we moved stadiums and bought no players for 2 years, he did better than that he took us to CL final. If there was ever a case of man asked to do the impossible it was this he was clearly burned out by the end of it. He literally did a miracle for this club.

Im really not excited by Mou everything tells me that it will end poorly very soon. Short term he will sort out the defence which is a shambles, maybe get some of the bigger players committed who were thinking about leaving, Get us above Arsenal, get us punching with City and Pool. Maybe win a trophy but it wont be one of the big ones.

 

[freeeki]

While I don't think Jose is going to be handed half a billion quid to spunk about the place, he won't have come here without assurances that money is going to be spent.

We know the money is there to be spent - we were serious about signing Paulo Dybala three months ago, and we've come nowhere near close to spending the record profits we made, the 55M EUR prize money for last season's Champions League run, or the money we didn't spend in the previous two transfer windows.

This idea that we don't/won't/can't spend on players is nonsense.

In 2016/17 we spent £75m. In 2017/18 we spent £109M. In 2018/19 we spent £0. In 2019/20 we've spent £103m.

That's £287M in signings across the past 3.5 seasons. If you add in Poch's first summer transfer window with us, the spending surpasses £350M.

Two things are clear, for me -

1) We have money to spend, and we have a track record of doing it. The targets and the timing leave a lot to be desired, not least when we foolishly didn't sign anyone for an entire season, but the money is there and does get spent.

2) Poch was financially backed, and claims to the contrary are as laughable as the suggestion that he's a champion of youth talent.

 

[EJWTartanSpur]

I think most of us are just gutted because we really wanted to win with Pochettino maybe it's more that with some people than thinking we would win with Pochettino but the heart wants what the heart wants. Maybe Mourinho is just our rebound coach so we'll have to go with him until our next true love comes along. It's going to be interesting to see the list of players Jose wants brought in and the players Levy actually brings in and the fall out from that, let's not be naive and think it won't happen.

I think this first part is the crux of it. We loved Pochettino because he got us performing, beating and finishing above teams that financially outweigh us and were owned by Russian criminals and oil countries. We were doing it the ‘right’ way and holding our own. Trophies on top of that would have been the ultimate present, confirmation of Pochettino as a legend and success in the face of and against financial behemoths who play on a different field to us. Confirmation that football was still alive as it were.

Unfortunately, he, and we, fell just short several times. Depressing and disappointing. We can see and at least partially appreciate why things have ended the way they have, but it doesn’t mean we aren’t a little sad and have a heavy heart over Pochettino being sacked.

 

[pablo73]

He's just keeping the seat warm for Eddie Howe

 

[Norgie]

Which players from our squad do we think will benefit most from him joining?

The older players will respect him, how could you not after the trophies he has won. The younger players will be in awe of him but all will be scared of him and that in my opinion is a good thing from the unrest in the camp recently.

Experience is a crucial thing when you want to win things and he brings a bucket load of that, lets hope he can instill a winning mentality it in the camp and use his experience to get the best out of them.

To answer your question fully, Winks and Dier will benefit along with Alli the most I hope, although all will eventually benefit.

 

[Deleted member 29446]

This is up there with Graham. What a sad day for the club, everyone at work is laughing at us.

So does everyone at my work this morning. But you know what? They know nothing!

 

[spursfan1991]

He has to win the champions league this season.

 

[freeeki]

Toby, Eriksen, Dier, Sissoko, Lucas, Kane, Son

Not sure about Eriksen, but definitely agree on Lucas and Dier. I'd imagine this will either be the making or breaking of Sanchez too.

 

[Hawk_Spur]

Jose's football at United was ugly by design, I think that's the point people are making. We have been shite for a season but I don't think that was how Poch wanted us to play.

Just proves that Poch had lost the players some time ago and the right call was made.

 

[Coyboy]

Toby, Eriksen, Dier, Sissoko, Lucas, Kane, Son

For some reason I think he might get Aurier playing at least with a degree of sanity.

Logic for that opinion: none.

 

[KILLA_SIN]

I don’t get the stuff about Jose and ugly football.... guess they haven’t watched Tottenham play since January.

It will likely end poorly as it has with Jose and his other tenures but I just want to see Spurs lift some silverware and this bloke has the best record in the business.

Well the footballs not going to improve unless you get hard about tactics.

 

[dirtyh]

the time for romanticism in football has long gone, it's just not about that anymore. I'd have loved to have won stuff with poch but it's time to be ruthless now if we ever want to truly win something of note and if that means having satan himself in charge, so be it.

 

[Donki]

Just proves that Poch had lost the players some time ago and the right call was made.

There was certainly something a miss.