Comments on: Mourinho – Anfield calls http://www.buzzinfootballblog.co.uk/mourinho-%e2%80%93-anfield-calls/1327 The UK's Premier Football Blog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:29:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bob http://www.buzzinfootballblog.co.uk/mourinho-%e2%80%93-anfield-calls/1327/comment-page-1#comment-27928 Bob Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:36:47 +0000 http://www.buzzinfootballblog.co.uk/?p=1327#comment-27928 I cannot see Mourinho at Anfield. Not unless something drastic happens with the Liverpool board. To improve the Liverpool team he would need some serious money to play with and I cannot see Liverpool spending the sort of cash that is needed. Liverpool are on a downward spiral and need to start making changes now! You cannot build a team that is reliant on a handful of players. Mourinho is a very intelligent man and will see that the cupboard is bare at Anfield - I think he will move to Spain to manage Real. I cannot see Mourinho at Anfield. Not unless something drastic happens with the Liverpool board. To improve the Liverpool team he would need some serious money to play with and I cannot see Liverpool spending the sort of cash that is needed.

Liverpool are on a downward spiral and need to start making changes now! You cannot build a team that is reliant on a handful of players.

Mourinho is a very intelligent man and will see that the cupboard is bare at Anfield – I think he will move to Spain to manage Real.

]]> By: Tactical Foul http://www.buzzinfootballblog.co.uk/mourinho-%e2%80%93-anfield-calls/1327/comment-page-1#comment-27479 Tactical Foul Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:58:34 +0000 http://www.buzzinfootballblog.co.uk/?p=1327#comment-27479 For long, there used to be a misconseption that Jose Mourinho's teams always played 'result oriented' football. This reputation was primarily built during his days at Chelsea, when they were more like a winning machine, than a club that plays football. Don't get me wrong, winning is what really counts, but it isn't everything. And when the 'Special One' moved to Inter, he took a similar style of football with him, just the way his legacy was left at Stamford Bridge in the form of a team that plays to win, and not necessarily one that plays the kind of free flowing football that has come to be synonymous with the eye candy of Barcelona and Arsenal. But, when his past is closely observed, history at Porto suggests that he not only built a team that won the ultimate prize in Europe, but also score a plethora of goals in the process. I think it's arguable, because of his time with Porto, that his style is to first build stong teams that are defence oriented, and slowly develop them in those that play the kind of football we all love to watch. Again, it did not completely reach fruition with Porto, and certainly not with Chelsea. But he's slowly getting there with Inter, as was demonstrated in the Champions League game at Stamford Bridge. But, is he actually the man to take Liverpool to the dizzying heights of becoming the best in all the land once more? Is he capable of taking the kind of history that Anfield has, and etching his name into the their halls of glory? Is he worthy of it at all, having managed Chelsea the way he did, in his no-nonsensical style? Possible, but yet so difficult to call... But, but, but, Mourinho has maintained in the past that he would like to be the first (I think the first) manager to win the Premier League, Serie A, and La Liga. A trip to Spain appears to be the best bet for Mourinho at the end of the season. If he guides Inter to the pinnacle of Europe, then Real Madrid will certainly come calling, which would make it the ideal job for him. For long, there used to be a misconseption that Jose Mourinho’s teams always played ‘result oriented’ football. This reputation was primarily built during his days at Chelsea, when they were more like a winning machine, than a club that plays football.

Don’t get me wrong, winning is what really counts, but it isn’t everything. And when the ‘Special One’ moved to Inter, he took a similar style of football with him, just the way his legacy was left at Stamford Bridge in the form of a team that plays to win, and not necessarily one that plays the kind of free flowing football that has come to be synonymous with the eye candy of Barcelona and Arsenal.

But, when his past is closely observed, history at Porto suggests that he not only built a team that won the ultimate prize in Europe, but also score a plethora of goals in the process.

I think it’s arguable, because of his time with Porto, that his style is to first build stong teams that are defence oriented, and slowly develop them in those that play the kind of football we all love to watch.

Again, it did not completely reach fruition with Porto, and certainly not with Chelsea. But he’s slowly getting there with Inter, as was demonstrated in the Champions League game at Stamford Bridge.

But, is he actually the man to take Liverpool to the dizzying heights of becoming the best in all the land once more?
Is he capable of taking the kind of history that Anfield has, and etching his name into the their halls of glory?
Is he worthy of it at all, having managed Chelsea the way he did, in his no-nonsensical style?
Possible, but yet so difficult to call…

But, but, but, Mourinho has maintained in the past that he would like to be the first (I think the first) manager to win the Premier League, Serie A, and La Liga. A trip to Spain appears to be the best bet for Mourinho at the end of the season.

If he guides Inter to the pinnacle of Europe, then Real Madrid will certainly come calling, which would make it the ideal job for him.

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