Jose Mourinho

[Didsbury Dave]

Its also add's fuel to the fire when Andy Hinchcliffe goes on ESPN just before the kick off and states in his option Mancini will not be at City in the Summer as he understands that Bobby is one a 6 month contract with it only becoming the three year one if he gets us in to the Champs league

That's because the six month clause is a fact. There's nothing new in what Hinchcliffe says.

The doubt is whether Mancini would stay even if we do get fourth.

 

[oakiecokie]

People keep on about Jose going to Real Madrid !!
Now,unless the Club have a change of heart,as to who runs Real with regard to transfers, Madrids top brass have always had the final say on which players come and go.
That is a well known fact !!
Would Jose put up with that ??
Highly unlikely !!
So unless Madrid give him "carte blanche" with the freedom of signings,do not expect a move to Spain.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

I bet if you went back 45 years, a lot of people who don't want Mourinho would be turning their noses up at Malcolm Allison.

How many of you realise that Jose started learning his trade under Big Mal, at Setubal? He has modelled himself on Allison and shares many of the same traits; supreme self-confidence, outstanding tactical awareness, innovative training routines, great man-management, the ability to get under his opponents skin, etc.

Jose knows what Malcolm did at City and now all the building blocks are in place, he would love to emulate the achievements of someone he learned so much from. That's why he'll come here above anything else.

Now thats up there with lee harvey oswald and the grassy knoll mate.......... I want that story to be true so please enlighten me (O:

 

[Didsbury Dave]

People keep on about Jose going to Real Madrid !!
Now,unless the Club have a change of heart,as to who runs Real with regard to transfers, Madrids top brass have always had the final say on which players come and go.
That is a well known fact !!
Would Jose put up with that ??
Highly unlikely !!
So unless Madrid give him "carte blanche" with the freedom of signings,do not expect a move to Spain.

I reckon that Real would be our main contenders for him if we went for him in summer.

But my big hope is exactly what you've said.

 

[ono]

I'm not sure how he'd fit in with the transfer policy at Real Madrid. Given what happened at Chelsea, i can't see him wanting to live that sort of experience again.

 

[Anonymous]

There's no quotes in it, but it sounds like someone somewhere has been "briefed" as they say...

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[hgblue]

There's no quotes in it, but it sounds like someone somewhere has been "briefed" as they say...

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.football-italia.net/mar31g.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.football-italia.net/mar31g.html</a>

2 + 2 = ?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

There's no quotes in it, but it sounds like someone somewhere has been "briefed" as they say...

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The only thing that confuses me about the Juve link is the fact that he has been in England for some time, learning the language, and told people before he took our job that he wanted to work in the premier league.

I suppose he's a young manager and the option is always there, even if he does go back to Italy.

 

[Anonymous]

There's no quotes in it, but it sounds like someone somewhere has been "briefed" as they say...

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.football-italia.net/mar31g.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.football-italia.net/mar31g.html</a>

The only thing that confuses me about the Juve link is the fact that he has been in England for some time, learning the language, and told people before he took our job that he wanted to work in the premier league.

I suppose he's a young manager and the option is always there, even if he does go back to Italy.

To be perfectly honest, I imagine the City job is one of the best in the world, so it's not like he's touting himself around. I think it's much more a case of making sure he has options IF City choose to dispense with his services at the end of the season...

I must confess, I watched that Mourinho interview and was pretty taken aback - especially when you consider less than 7 days ago his agent AND Moratti were saying that he's staying in Italy. Jose is sending out quite a different message...

Plus, I don't know if anyone caught what was said, but I'm pretty sure Richard Keys suggested that Mourinho had particularly asked to speak to the SSN journo after his press conference...and they said "he's trying to get a message to someone..."

Ha ha ha. Sorry, last night was the funniest night of non-City related football I can ever remember watching...from Ribery, to Rooney, to Jose....

 

[hgblue]

If Mourinho wants the Real Madrid job, why is he constantly banging on about his desire to return to England? Surely this would discourage Madrid?