Finnegan Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 Self aggrandising cvnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benguin Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 Mourinho is like that one lad down the pub who thinks he knows what he's talking about and thinks everyone agrees with him but really everyone thinks he's a bellend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpe's Fox Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 Mourinho is such a bitch boy. Has to make it all about him. Knobhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester Dontlie Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 Last season he was chatting shit about Claudio, now it turns out he's Ranieri's best friend! He must have the shortest memory in the history of football... A special ****, that's what he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox 4 Life Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 Jose just loves the sound of his own voice. He has absolutely slated Ranieri over the years and now suddenly he's his best mate. **** off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 It isn't just him the media, pundits pretty much everyone was saying he shouldn't have got the job in the first place! being here has made him more sort after and has got rid of that absolute joke label he had after Greece. He won't have trouble finding another job and will be loved here forever. What he did against all the odds was legendary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox 4 Life Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 What annoys me the most (and this isn't a dig at Claudio) is how suddenly everyone is forgetting the players and staff from last year and solely putting all of the praise on Claudio. All the ****** saying I hope Leicester get relegated after Claudio made them champions, yes he played a big part but so did alot of other people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 Mourinho can get in the bin he hasn't got an ounce of class in him. Anything he does is for his own self serving agenda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm1 Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 6 hours ago, EnderbyFox said: Slightly different tone to his last tribute to Ranieri I guess. What a nasty, vindictive cvnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USFox Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 Leicester City showed its ass with this firing. Like it or not. Nothing wrong with the tribute except that it had to happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester Dontlie Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 It's not a tribute... It's just a calculating hypocrite trying to mimic others and show what his PR advisors call "the human side" in order to appear, you know, more human to us ordinary folks who are able to express positive feelings naturally. It's so easy to be everybody's best friend when you're winning and they're losing. Just wait and watch Mourinho waving French flag and posting another love letter when Wenger gets the boot. I never disliked any manager as much as him. What a sad parody of a human being and a complete opposite of what Claudio is. Always playing his mind games, everything has to revolve around him. I wish he ends his career as a walking meme somewhere in Chinese second division... The **** deserves every single piece of crap flung his way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnthefoxrayner Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 2 hours ago, Benguin said: Mourinho is like that one lad down the pub who thinks he knows what he's talking about and thinks everyone agrees with him but really everyone thinks he's a bellend. We don't think. He is a bellend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durnerz Posted 24 February 2017 Share Posted 24 February 2017 Everyones jumping on the bandwagon now, Mourinho doing what he does best, being an attention seeking imbecile, anything to grab the focus onto him. All of world football pretending that we havn't played like shit all season and that Ranieri's blameless is really starting to grate. Will always love Claudio for giving us the greatest time of our lives but the world doesn't just stop when you win something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 26 February 2017 Share Posted 26 February 2017 Chelsea disgust and anger the real reason for Mourinho’s Ranieri tribute Peter Staunton 1 Feb 26, 2017 11:00:00 The Special One has spent his career differentiating himself from the deposed Leicester manager, so why the sudden change of heart? Never underestimate Jose Mourinho’s ability to insert himself into the middle of the story. On Friday we were treated to the Manchester United manager’s tribute to Claudio Ranieri – sacked by Leicester City the previous evening. What should have been a straightforward press conference ahead of the EFL Cup final was instead hijacked as a piece of high theatre. Mourinho promises top Man Utd signings “Probably the season started with the typical selfishness of others,” he said in reference to Leicester’s players and their distinct level of under-performance. “People thinking about new contracts, people thinking about leaving, people thinking about more money, people forgetting who helped them reach a certain level. “If some of the stories I’m reading are true, or have just a little bit of truth, it’s difficult to find words to justify that.” There are legitimate gripes within that perspective. Since winning the title, Leicester players have dined out on autobiographies, clothing lines, limited edition rums and even a Hollywood blockbuster in the pipeline. There have been £100,000+ contracts dished out left, right and centre. What has not been matched this season is the level of desire from that historic year. Leicester’s players simply could not cope with winning and their manager could not cope with training a winning team. We will never know for sure to what extent Leicester’s players “downed tools” or if indeed Ranieri “lost the dressing room” but, certainly, Ranieri lost the spark. His players carried out his instructions to a tee to win the league title but were left bemused by his changes the season after. There is no doubt though that Mourinho looked at the situation from the outside and deduced that the same thing was happening to Ranieri as what happened to him at Chelsea. And that speech on Friday was the speech Mourinho wishes he could have made back when he was sacked by Chelsea – pointing fingers at selfish, traitorous players who undermined their title-winning manager through a lack of effort and desire. It was a speech less about Ranieri and Leicester than it was about Mourinho and his players at Chelsea. Mourinho is championing the cause of Ranieri in order to express disgust at his own treatment in 2015-16 at Stamford Bridge. Don't forget, this is the same Ranieri that Mourinho has shown little professional courtesy too. Ranieri was a “loser”, he has said, and "too old to change his ideas". The Italian was a winner of “a Super Cup and other small trophies,” according to Jose. Mahrez branded a 'snake' by fans Since his first spell at Chelsea, Mourinho differentiated himself from Ranieri in terms of winners and losers. Anything Ranieri achieved as Chelsea coach, or in Italy, or Spain, was demeaned. By running his predecessor’s legacy into the ground he was simultaneously talking up his own. Ranieri was Mourinho’s punch bag for long enough and there was poetic justice that Mourinho faced his Waterloo at Chelsea against Ranieri’s Leicester last season. Ranieri’s revenge culminated in the feel-good football story of the century. Maybe the title win with Leicester did force Ranieri up a notch in Mourinho’s estimations. Many managers have sympathised with Ranieri since his dismissal but none seemed to have taken the cause as personally as Mourinho - and it's obvious why. Both coached a team to the league title only to be jettisoned before the following season was out. The rumours of dressing room unrest in regard to Ranieri’s decision-making echo what happened with Mourinho. The Special One lost his special powers and players – including the reigning PFA Player of the Year Eden Hazard– were unwilling or unable to match their output from the season before. Ditto Ranieri and his squad including Riyad Mahrez. Where the consensus on Mourinho was that his time was up and he had to go, Ranieri is being afforded decidedly more sympathy. In the public eye, Mourinho was at fault for failing to defend the league title with Chelsea, while the blame has fallen at the Leicester players' feet. That's because Claudio's perceived as a nice guy, Jose isn't. Ranieri has borne his suffering with a stoic dignity. Last season Mourinho didn’t. From Ranieri, there was no railing against “weak and naïve” referees. There were no incidents which led to a tribunal against his own medical staff. There were no rants against those who schedule matches, ball boys or his own players like there were with Jose. Ranieri was so likeable and warm in public that it is difficult to comprehend that he had another side. Aside from the limitations to his tactical thought – which, it is reported, played a key part in his players’ increasing distrust of his stewardship – there were also accusations of fall-outs behind the scenes. There are two sides to every story. That employees can have disagreements behind the scenes is nothing new. And in the structure at many clubs now the manager is no longer the boss he is just another employee. Mourinho, too, found that out the hard way with Michael Emenalo pointing to the “palpable discord” he left in his wake at Stamford Bridge. Mourinho is using his platform to demonstrate his own credentials – not necessarily to show the contrast to Ranieri’s anymore, but to show the similarity in both their fates. It’s all over now and Ranieri finds himself in the position Mourinho was in last year. The players wouldn’t go with him, connived behind his back, overthrew him. But if Ranieri feels that way you can be sure you’ll never hear it in public. That's not his style. Maybe Jose now realises he, the 'winner', and Ranieri, the 'loser', aren’t so different after all. But he needs everyone to know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 26 February 2017 Share Posted 26 February 2017 Yes I took a cynical view of this, it was clear it was all about Jose. Watch at the end of the season, he'll be the first congratulating Wenger despite calling him the specialist in failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poznan34 Posted 26 February 2017 Share Posted 26 February 2017 His "tribute" was utterly bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 26 February 2017 Share Posted 26 February 2017 Glad to that someone had called it out on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrifox Posted 26 February 2017 Share Posted 26 February 2017 Another dim self-regarding twat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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