oh are they

then do tell us what the real numbers are

the internet is telling me he won 2 vs pep in 11 attempts and 1 vs tito, but maybe google is a huge conspiracy designed to play down the magnificent achievements of the special one

That comparison is stupid and I don't even like Mourinho anymore. Pep was having a team made from a once in a lifetime generation of players, hanging around together since they were like 12 years old. Mourinho came to RM in a period of transition, had to clean up the squad and make good transfers, making us competitive again in the era of the best Barcelona in history. We weren't winning the league for 3 years and not making the SF of the CL in 8 before he came to RM. His first 2 years were very good, but that's the maximum he could have done in such a short amount of time.

being a condescending jackass on stuff you don't actually know does not make you look smart

wow rits, didn't think you had it in you!

agree with what youre saying, if he went toe to toe with Barca - well he did - and got smashed 5-0. Changed it up, beat them in a cup final then won the league the following year.

Had he went to play attacking football against them in the semi against Barca with Inter he wouldn't have won the CL with them.

His football and philosophy if you will is pretty boring but it's very effect and get results.

He then falls out with everyone and moves on

alright his record was a little different. idk what my search was missing out, possibly spanish charity shield matches or something.

anyway you've missed the point, which wasn't about the magnitude of his losing record vs barca but rather the manner in which his teams set up, have always set up, and probably will always set up when facing teams of comparable strength, and that is to foul and frustrate and blame the refs and the ball boys and whatever else. its perfectly possible to win like that, especially when you have the biggest checkbook in world football, but its absolutely dull football, the reason myself and mc1 can't sit through 90 mins of mun any longer, and likely a factor which contributed to his multiple sackings

there are some reasonable things you can criticize Mourinho for, spending a lot of money is certainly not one of them, specially after he won 2 CL + UC with Porto and Inter. He coached Real Madrid and Chelsea, both had a lot of money to spend, both are pretty happy with the return they got on it. As Arsenal fans should know, they don't give out trophies for net spend.

Baids, if Jose was England manager and he got to the final of the world cup - bare with me - would you rather he set up to give England the best possible chance to win a one of game. Or go all out attack against Spain/Brazil/Germany or whoever and play into their hands and get smashed 3 or 4-0?

course i can criticise him for it. when mun turn up at anfield next season and park the bus and try to nick a 1-0 win i am going to think 'christ £400m spent over two summers for THAT', and so is everyone else

and btw its time to stop dining out on the 2 CLs over a 15 odd year career, zidane is probably about to equal him and he only started managing about 3 months ago iirc

i'd rather he set up to maximise our chances

however

if the england manager was given £150m to spend every summer and could buy the best players in the world and we turned up bus parking it in the final i'd be pretty ****ed off

I'm sure if you ask mourinho himself whether he thinks the team played well this season, or as well as it should be considering the investment, he'll tell you no. But they were playing poorly and he believed that was the best way to get a result in an important match, I'd rather see him do that than Pep's "I'd rather lose playing my way" bs.

Pretty much. Also I don't think we have been playing that poorly we've really struggled to score goals in games we've have dominated and ran into keepers having the games of their lives. A few of those games turn in to wins which would have been deservedly so wins. We'd likely have gotten top 4 and there wouldn't have been so much on the line in this game. The pressure to win it was immense.

I don't agree with this dichotomy, there's still a lot between all out attack/aesthetics and Mourinho. And as for the comparison, if I go along with your analogy, he wouldn't just not do that against Spain/Brazil/Germany but also ~Trinidad & Tobago.

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yeah, a little better variance would have secured top 4 and it's the first year of trying to turn around a pretty terrible situation, but I'm sure he was hoping for more, giving up those leads that cost a lot of points was very anti-Mourinho

eh, Ajax? I mean, maybe United isn't 5x better. But they should be.