Comments on: The Post-Mourinho Effect

By: RobH

RobH — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:52:34 +0000

The fact that he managed Porto to successive UEFA Cup & Champions League wins with a team that had in previous seasons had little in the way of any European success or even progression surely throws a little water on your – “But how much he has spent for them. wherever he goes he buys best players he likes and wins with them” – comment.

When with Chelsea he did nothing more than Ab demanded, before him Ranineri spent almost £100m in one season.

With Inter he spent just over 60m including the undisclosed bids for Milito and Motta.. not a bad out-lay in order to achieve the success he did.

With Madrid It must be noted that Mourinho was not responsible for the massive outlay on Ronaldo, Kaka, Benzema, Alonso, Arbeloa and Albiol, his Signing of Mesut Ozil for £15m shows that he can be very prudent and must go down as one of the steals of recent years

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:59:52 +0000

Mourinho is no doubt a successful manager, his legacy has been forged on the back of his sheer will to win and the players believing in him. That is a great thing to have but he has spent lots of money to get those clubs where they were. You could even say Roberto Mancini and particularly Pellegrini built the Inter and Real sides he took over.

As for club’s struggling, FC Porto bar the first season after Mourinho left Porto have won 6 League titles, 1 UEFA Cup, 4 Portuguese Cups. I don’t know how you judge that effect but that is a fair amount of success.

Post Mourinho Chelsea, reached their first Champions League final 7 months after Mourinho left under Avram Grant. Grant actually beating Mourinho’s Chelsea nemesis Rafa Benitez and Liverpool in the semi-finals that season. The club won their first double under Ancelotti. Add 3 FA Cup’s and finally their first Champions League in their history I am pretty sure the success since Mourinho has been relatively continued.

As for Inter Milan, the unwillingness of Massimo Moratti not to invest in an ageing squad under both managers in Benitez and Leonardo was Inter’s downfall.

The work that Pellegrini done at Real, is getting overlooked badly. Its not as if Mourinho joined a side who finished just 3 points behind Barcelona…oh wait they actually did with a total of 96 points.

Mourinho has done it all except build a legacy at one club, time will tell can he do that like Ferguson, Wenger in modern day football but of managers of the past like Busby, Clough, Paisley, Nicholson, Stein, Revie etc…

The post-mourinho effect can be whatever way you look at it. Facts speak louder in the aftermath. Bar Inter, all the clubs have done decently well and he took over a Madrid side who had run Barcelona close the previous season under Pellegrini.

By: Ebrahim

Ebrahim — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:37:40 +0000

Agree with Pradeep. Mourinho cleverly has not stayed longer than 3-4 seasons at one club. As Alex Ferguson himself stated once, to maintain success, a good team needs to be ‘built’ again every 4 seasons, i.e. new players, new ‘figureheads’. There’s no doubting that this philosophy is evident in the continual rebuilding of Man Utd – from star players such as Cantona, who are then seamlessly replaced as figureheads by such players as Keane, Scholes, Beckham, Ronaldo and (I believe now it is) Wayne Rooney. It would be interesting to see if Mourinho has the commitment/interest to build and rebuild a team in this way.

By: Uzoegheli

Uzoegheli — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:45:14 +0000

The core of the players Jose brought to stamford bridge were still the ones that delivered the champion league and were in the semis 2 or three times, we’re in the finals twice and have countless of trophies with Jose and other managers, like hiddink , ancelloti, dematteo, the problem is the owner have become some how confused and it affected Chelsea, I am certain Jose could have delivered the UCL for Chelsea at least more than once. I also have a feeling Jose work on mandate from his employers that are notably big clubs that want instant success , the barca policy and the Porto policy are similar so also for Manu, and I guess the works done in Porto could still be replicated anywhere depending on the desires of the club heirachy

By: Dean Lynch

Dean Lynch — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:03:42 +0000

He brought short term successes by buying players for the now rather than for the future, hence the difficulty in promoting any sort of consistency from Chelsea or Inter in the years following his departures. More than likely won’t be so mad at Madrid seeing as most of the big players he’s bought are still young or only coming into their prime, the next manager will no doubt have big shoes to fill but with that team already together it’d be difficult not to do well.

Your article just goes though his history without actually talking about why any of his clubs go into depression when he leaves. Seems pointless..

By: Uzoegheli

Uzoegheli — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:04:06 +0000

I am sure you don’t expect Madrid to hire mourihno and tell him not to buy good players( Madrid policy)’, the same for chelsea , intermilan have also splashed the cash on quantum of stars befor mourihno and yet unable to get the real deal until Jose arrived, every other big clubs buy expensive, that aside the Porto side that made history under Jose were relatively a low budget team and the outstanding near perfect work of the special one with these teams were impeccable and I get the feeling you misunderstand the concept of football and club management, the barca team under pep could be valued at above $500m , by market capitalization, I doubt if other teams can boast of such roaster . I would be happy if you appreciate the excellent works of this great manager instead .

By: pradeep

pradeep — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:36:14 +0000

We know he has won trophies. But how much he has spent for them. wherever he goes he buys best players he likes and wins with them. Once he goes the new manager has to play them because of their price even though they doesnt suit their style. He is also clevar, he knows that he cannot maintain success at the same place and thus quits after 2- 3years. If he is so good why doesnt he take over clubs with little money like liverpool, arsenal, valencia, atletico madrid and win same titles. If he does this then he can be the special one.