finally, someone who shares my opinion
i normally don't speak up like this because i'm still not quite confident in speaking definitively about football, but this person said it too, so i can't be that far off the mark...
IT'S NO WAY TO TREAT JOE
Oliver Holt
I FIND it hard to share the growing antipathy towards Jose Mourinho. I don't care how much money he has spent. It takes an awful lot more than money to win back-to-back Premiership titles. Just ask Sir Alex Ferguson who has spent more than £100m on a team that hasn't won the league for three seasons.
But the one thing I do think Mourinho has mismanaged dreadfully this season is his treatment of Joe Cole. Cole had responded magnificently to everything Mourinho asked him to do and has been Chelsea's best player for much of this season. But just when he was playing his best football and earning rave reviews, Mourinho decided he wanted to humiliate him.
He dragged him off in the middle of the first half at Fulham and has marginalised him ever since. And he wonders why Cole missed his last-gasp opportunity against Liverpool on Saturday. It might just be something to do with the fact that Cole has been treated so badly his confidence is shot to pieces.
i had a conversation with bananas after last week's defeat to liverpool, and we both concur: its mourinho that has to go.
posted by Giovanna @ 3:12 PM
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4 Comments:
what do you mean has to go? the man won uefa cup and champions league in consecutive years with a marginal team.
it's like trading gretzky.
they just need a core 11 that always plays together.
half of his tactics are completely out of left field. when they work, he's brilliant, but half the time (as of late), he's been completely off the mark. he pulls players out after 25 mins, or if he subs, he's pulling the wrong players (those producing results). its not just a joe cole thing. for example, duff was having an amazing game, and gudjohnsen just sucked...but who does he pull? duff. it doesn't make sense.
i agree that they need a core 11 that always play together, but he doesn't give them the chance to play together. he has been pretty good at developing individual players, but they do not work as a team. so swapping players isn't going to solve any issues (in fact, bringing new players in would probably compound the problem)
he may be good at leading a marginal team to greatness, but he sure doesn't know how to manage a team of great players.
i completely agree with giovanna's last comment. some managers simply cannot be given wads of cash or a team full of great players and make them gel. or, at the very least, keep them gelling. some can of course, like sir alex ferguson, who's been doing it for years, but moaninho is not sir alex.
if moaninho took over a team with a little cash he could make them great and keep them there -- villareal comes to mind -- but at chelsea he is looking more and more like sven goran erikson (albeit a passionate sge) than a capello.
In a lot of ways I feel it's easier to manage a "marginal" team than a team like Chelsea. With the amount of money Chelsea has there is a requirement that they go after pretty much every big name player that becomes available. Of course, that leads to a team of 20 players with huge egos, all of whom expect to play regularly. Trying to keep those players happy is at least as big of a challenge as leading a solid group of 11 players to victory. Mourinho's tactics are quite good, but he would be greatly helped by reducing his squad to a core group of players, plus some players that are willing to be nothing more than backups with the team. 20 starters isn't going to work well for any team.
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