Mourinho suggests adding timeouts to football

[davieG]

Not sure if he's serious but if he's that great a tactician he should have got his tactics right in the first instance  besides wasn't his complaint about Chelsea that the players were lazy? Hardly a tactical issue.

 

 

 

 

One of Jose Mourinho's main advantages over other coaches is that he's simply a better tactician than everyone else in the league. This is obviously useful, but it's not as useful as one might think -- there's only so much managing you can do from the sidelines mid-match without resorting to substitutions. Against Leicester, the manager was just as frustrated by the first half as the rest of us, and it was worse for him because he couldn't fix it:

I hope I am still in football when they give the coach the chance to stop the game during the first half once and during the second half because you can make the game much better. Imagine against Leicester, I would have stopped the game in the tenth minute! It would be interesting.

Louis Van Gaal in the World Cup, the ref stopped the game for the water break, and he changed the system of his team and managed to win the game. So maybe I will one day have the chance to stop the game in the first half and once in the second half.

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Mirror

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I am generally in favour of water breaks for athlete safety reasons, but Mourinho is suggesting breaking up the flow of the game to give good tacticians (i.e. him) an advantage over other managers. Which is obviously a weird thing to suggest -- his justification of making the overall spectacle better runs into the obstacle of nobody wanting the game to have two extra breaks per team per match, which would help ruin the flow of the game.

I'm sure television folks would love it, though. Gotta sell those ads.

 

 

[Jaspa]

If hes such a great tactician, why does he need to change the rules of the game to get better at it?

[Fox92]

 

 

better tactician than everyone else in the league.

 

... Apart from Wenger.

[Kitchandro]

No.

 

This is not an American sport. The lack of breaks is what makes the sport great.

 

Mourinho is and will always be a tit.

[ealingfox]

Terrible shout.

[DennisNedry]

... Apart from Wenger.

 

[AyewJoking]

gimme a break

[Fox92]

 

 

Wenger has never beaten Mourinho in over 10 attempts?

 

Wasn't joking.

 

Wenger built up the best team I've ever seen. Yes I went to the Real Madrid and Barcelona friendlies, but Arsenal's team was unbelievable - Vieira, Henry, Petit, Gilberto, Adams, Cole, Pires, Overmars, Bergkamp - man, their team(s) were incredible. All on a tighter budget, lets not forget, he never spent £25million on players like Mourinho does (yes I know, they spent on Sanchez and Ozil but I'm talking 10 years ago).

 

Watching them counter attack was brilliant.

[One Legged Beaver]

... Apart from Wenger.

 

Wenger has never beaten Mourinho in over 10 attempts?

[Samilktray]

Wenger was clearly a better tactician when Chelsea stuck 6 past his arsenal side last season.

[Fox92]

Wenger was clearly a better tactician when Chelsea stuck 6 past his arsenal side last season.

 

City stuck 6 past United, at Old Trafford. Mancini a better tactician than Ferguson?

 

Tottenham stuck 9 past Wigan. Redknapp a better tactician than Martinez?

[Samilktray]

I was agreeing with you

[Fox92]

I was agreeing with you

 

Ohh. Sounded like it was the other way around.

 

Apologies then.

[Guest]

... Apart from Wenger.

Rubbish. Wenger was class a decade ago. His tactics have been crap for years since. No proper wingers, refusing to play his only proper striker up front so far from the start, won't bring in a proper holding midfielder to back up the more adventurous midfielders. Podolski or Oil on the left wing. There's a reason he's won nothing for a decade. They don't even play football as well as they used to. 

[Fox92]

Rubbish. Wenger was class a decade ago. His tactics have been crap for years since. No proper wingers, refusing to play his only proper striker up front so far from the start, won't bring in a proper holding midfielder to back up the more adventurous midfielders. Podolski or Oil on the left wing. There's a reason he's won nothing for a decade. They don't even play football as well as they used to.

I was talking in general, not just now. Hence why I posted about about older players and mentioned myself "ten years ago".

[Danno]

Wenger has clearly won so much with his brilliant tactics.

[Corky]

Don't know why he's getting worked up, he won't play sides with the quality of Leicester every week.

[Stadt]

Great tactical managers win the champions league

[Carl the Llama]

To all the idiots questioning Wenger's tactical nous, I'd like you to produce a long list of managers who have managed an entire season undefeated.  It must be a pretty long list after all if a merely above average manager did it.

[lc4lcfc]

There is no doubt wenger used to be a very good manager. HOWEVER nowadays not so much. I think the goalposts have moved. It's not the same game as it was 10 years ago and wenger doesn't seem to have evolved with the times.

[Carl the Llama]

There is no doubt wenger used to be a very good manager. HOWEVER nowadays not so much. I think the goalposts have moved. It's not the same game as it was 10 years ago and wenger doesn't seem to have evolved with the times.

The man can't stop finishing in the top 4 even when he isn't spending anything! "Used to be very good" my arse.

[foxfanazer]

... Apart from Wenger.

Really?

Edit: Sorry only just seen your other posts.

Wenger hasn't adapted with the times imo. Seems very naive tactically nowadays to me.

[foxfanazer]

The man can't stop finishing in the top 3 even when he isn't spending anything! "Used to be very good" my arse.

Top 3?

[Carl the Llama]

Top 3?

4. Fat fingers.

[Fox92]

To all the idiots questioning Wenger's tactical nous, I'd like you to produce a long list of managers who have managed an entire season undefeated.  It must be a pretty long list after all if a merely above average manager did it.

 

Exactly.