Bobby-Manc
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This is nothing new. Mourinho has encouraged this with all of his teams.
John.des said:"With the players City have, it's incredible they haven't qualified two years in a row," Mourinho told reporters.
"If I had been knocked out of the Champions League in the groups, I wouldn't have been able to go back to Madrid."
Wonder what Mansour thinks when he reads it tomorrow... or Mancini or the City players when they hear the world's best coach talking like this.
hertsblue said:Ignoring the BBC stats which are always wrong, the stats after the game last night was 31 free kicks awarded. 21 against us. They did a job conning the ref who i thought lost control a number of times and how he didnt add on any more time to the 5 mins when they were time wasting, feigning injury is beyond me.
crystal_mais said:John.des said:"With the players City have, it's incredible they haven't qualified two years in a row," Mourinho told reporters.
"If I had been knocked out of the Champions League in the groups, I wouldn't have been able to go back to Madrid."
Wonder what Mansour thinks when he reads it tomorrow... or Mancini or the City players when they hear the world's best coach talking like this.
He is not far from the truth - With the players we have, we should have done better. Madrid knew what they had to come and do and they did it very well.
We had chances to win this group or be in the top 2 - Winning away at both Madrid & Ajax and then to lose showed our lack of a game plan
I'm a big fan of Mourinho - he is by far one of the best managers in the game.
As for you people who are being critical of him, thats your opinion. If he pitched up here and won league after league and other trophies - sure you wouldn't complain
BillyShears said:crystal_mais said:John.des said:"With the players City have, it's incredible they haven't qualified two years in a row," Mourinho told reporters.
"If I had been knocked out of the Champions League in the groups, I wouldn't have been able to go back to Madrid."
Wonder what Mansour thinks when he reads it tomorrow... or Mancini or the City players when they hear the world's best coach talking like this.
He is not far from the truth - With the players we have, we should have done better. Madrid knew what they had to come and do and they did it very well.
We had chances to win this group or be in the top 2 - Winning away at both Madrid & Ajax and then to lose showed our lack of a game plan
I'm a big fan of Mourinho - he is by far one of the best managers in the game.
As for you people who are being critical of him, thats your opinion. If he pitched up here and won league after league and other trophies - sure you wouldn't complain
Completely agree. Although Mourinho was no doubt having a pop before the game "City won't qualify", and after the game with his comments quoted above, he isn't wrong on either front.
Still find it funny that so many people make so many distinctions between Mancini and Mourinho when they are essentially cut from the same cloth. Mourinho is just a more complete version of Mancini and therefore a more successful version of him.
Anyone wanting to dispute this should read Ibrahimovic's biography. Few players have been "close" to Mancini since he's become a manager, but it seems like Ibra was closer than most. Even he acknowledged the difference between Mancini and Mourinho was that "I'd kill for Mourinho".