nomorethaksintimes
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If Mourinho was ANY other foreign manager whom Fleet Street didn't fawn over his job would be under a lot of pressure now. Watching him say bollocks in his post-match press conference about how Chelsea were already out of the title race long-ago and the lap-dog interviewer not once countering that they were very much in it until today's failure says everything you need to know about his relationship with the sycophantic media - I wouldn't use the word journalist. Ancelotti was very similar to Pellegrini when he was in England - both clearly see dealing with the media a chore of the job. Roman should never have sacked him.
If he's such a managerial genius he wouldn't need the 50m striker on his wishlist to break down teams like Norwich. He already made a horrific decision letting Lukaku go to Everton and if he thought they were that lacking of decent striking options in Jan, he could have used some of the 22m Matic fee to unearth a new forward in Europe....like Atletico did when they purchased Diego Costa for 2.5m a few seasons back. He could even have tried out Schurrle as an out an out centre forward for a spell with less emphasis on knocking high crosses into the box.
If he's such a managerial genius he wouldn't need the 50m striker on his wishlist to break down teams like Norwich. He already made a horrific decision letting Lukaku go to Everton and if he thought they were that lacking of decent striking options in Jan, he could have used some of the 22m Matic fee to unearth a new forward in Europe....like Atletico did when they purchased Diego Costa for 2.5m a few seasons back. He could even have tried out Schurrle as an out an out centre forward for a spell with less emphasis on knocking high crosses into the box.