Thread 149473480

he won UCL with porto with no money and now hes managing in turkey. what went wrong? aren't you supposed to become wiser as you get older?

Mourinho means little moor

>>149473480 (OP)
>a fraud gets exposed
A tale as old as time

One trick pony.

>>149473480 (OP)
He got solved and couldn't adapt.

>>149473480 (OP)
Quarter final against the titanic Lyon
Semi final against the powerful Deportivo La Coruña
Final against the mighty Monaco

He got mindbroken in Madrid

>>149473960
This. Manager stuck in time.

>>149473480 (OP)
When he first won the only “oil” clubs were Chelsea and maybe madrid
Literally everyone could win and it was more balanced
He had a really good Portugal generation playing for Porto

>>149474044
idk about coruna but lyon and monaco used to be good

>>149474716
Yeah but framing it as Porto being this unbelievable underdog is disingenuous

>>149474716
>idk about coruna but lyon and monaco used to be good
yeah good like how Leverkusen is good now

Broken by Pep and never recuperated

>>149476302
>broken by pep
>mou winning the league once was enough to scare pep into leaving barcelona at their peak for a one team league

>>149473480 (OP)
Tottenham curse.

>>149474044
the weakest team he faced in the knockouts what the worst sir alex manure
lyon were in the middle of a 7peat, super depor were in their greatest ever era and beat the holders milan, and monaco, despite not having much to their name beat real and a chelsea on the rise
no one has an easy route to a european title, he beat great teams of their time

>>149474044
Everyone of those teams would trash brasileirao

He has a hard time disciplining Zoomers and team owners don't want the kind of controversy he brings.
He got fired from Roma because the owners were mad that he was too harsh on the ref of the Europa League final.
So, they expected a very tough run of teams right before a very easy run of teams to fire him.

>>149476239
Lyon was famous for buck breaking Real Madrid in that era. It was a legit great team.

>>149477360
>mexican trying not to cocksuck yuros for 5 minutes

>>149473480 (OP)
Footballers stopped being men

>>149475393
True

Porto was the favourite in the semis. For starters, it had won the UEFA Cup the year before and it was the only of the other teams to.have to won the Europeam cup before.

Coruna and Monaco were also respected because they had won leagues recently. Chelsea were the true underdogs. The money wasn't yet truly running and they had not won the league before, most people outside the UK did not know they even existed before the CWC win

>>149474044
All of those teams had players that later on moved to traditionally big clubs and became elite
Lyon had the likes of Malouda, Diarra, Juninho and Essien
Monaco had Evra, Giuly, Adebayor

le park the bus man

>>149473960
>>149474131
you are delusional, he won the Europa League with memester utd, he won the Conference League with Roma and he was robbed of the Europa League in his second year

>>149473480 (OP)
Can you imagine how much Guardiola would piss and shit himself as Fc Porto manager?

>>149473480 (OP)
>he won UCL with porto
most overrated achievement of all time. you could theoretically win the ucl with lech poznan if you go up against fucking monaco and lyon having the entire portugal NT on your squad including Deco

>>149476428
only one of them saw his career plummet into nothingness despite managing some of the richest teams. mourinho was just a regular manager who overachieved, as soon as a real nigga with talent like Ancelotti showed up he started winning trophies with madrid and shitting all over his legacy

>>149473480 (OP)
>lyon
>deportivo
>monaco
wow what a difficult champions league run....................................

>>149476726
I remember that year. Coruña was very good, could won it all. Lyon wasnt as rated but as far as pre-psg French teams go, it was strong too.
But Monaco was the biggest surprise, nobody expected them lets be honest. Chelsea wasnt as respected back then but still felt as favorites in that semifinals.
The team that was the most rated among all of the 32 among that group stage, was Arsenal

>>149483343
Mourinho would never coach Porto in his prime though. He was starting his career in a big team of his country. Guardiola is Spanish, different context

>>149483603
lol no, he had a bunch of nobodies. they were either veterans who weren't good enough to play in stronger leagues or just decent up and coming portuguese league level players, most of whom didn't do anything in their careers after that.

the draw opened up for him, yes, but even those teams they faced were 2-3 times richer than porto. At that time, it was considered impossible for a team outside of the major 4 (5) leagues to reach a cl final. all the top players had been moving to those leagues for 10 years by that time, and only clubs from those leagues would make even the semis. even winning the uefa cup a year before was a huge surprise.

>>149486612
Not completely disagreeing with you, but it was a different era, and i dont mean football but of the information as a whole. Sesko and Gyokeres in that time would be "nobodies" outside their club countries but nowadays even someone in Somalia knows them. Porto had legit elite players like Deco, Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho, and a decent midfield in Maniche and a decent striker in Benni Mccarthy.

>>149486941
deco and carvalho are the only players from that team who had an elite career, and they were also nobodies before playing for mourinho at porto. and they weren't even young at that point. they were struggling to establish themselves. players like maniche and ferreira had very modest careers before and after those couple of years at porto.

He played antifootball which is often the best tactic if you want to win. The leagues conspired against him to prevent other top managers from employing this boring, unprofitable style of play.

>>149473480 (OP)
Got lucky against Man U and beat a bunch of crap teams

>>149473960
>solved
>won the champions league with an inter full of geriatrics

>>149483693
You know what plummeted into nothingness? Your currency.

mourinho is still a really good coach

>>149473480 (OP)
Unironically killed by his time at United.

>>149473480 (OP)
He's gonna win the CL with Fener
Screencap this

>>149494086
Nah, that Inter was stacked hard

football is different now
too many “oil” clubs that can just afford having insane benches and talent is hyper concentrated
heck, madrid’s strategy has been signing expired contracts (they do not spend money in transfers unless for newgens)

>>149494343
So stacked that they flopped subsequent years

>>149494343
what exactly did those players win without mourinho&inter?