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Contents 1 how about a section on his tactics and football philosophy? 2 Something I would like to include but may be a mere personal opinion: 3 Needs a rewrite 4 Putting wrongs right 5 Anders Frisk 6 Article style 7 Neutrality 8 updating 8.1 Leiria

[edit] how about a section on his tactics and football philosophy?

[edit] Something I would like to include but may be a mere personal opinion:

I strongly believe Mourinho is smarter than most, and thinks on a whole other level. While he may be ambitious and proud, I really believe his recent outbursts against Frisk, the UEFA and Rijkaard, are not merely caused by stress or a disconnection with the real world, but that he consciously draws the attention of the media towards him, in order to keep his players free from attention and stress. For comparison, in Manchester United, Real Madrid or Barcelona, the focus is on the players, hence all responsibility and stress. This is of course truthful, because it's they who have to perform. I am sure that with Mourinho, there would not be such interest in Rooney or Beckham. he makes sure his players stay out of the picture, all to the benefit of the team.

Something along these lines may be worthy of inclusion.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.229.242.54 (talk • contribs) 21:18, 8 May 2006 BST.

[edit] Needs a rewrite

I think this whole section needs expanded upon, updated and tidied up. A good start has been made, but this article is of quite a low quality considering that Mourinho is one of the world's foremost football managers.

--82.41.230.130 14:45, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Putting wrongs right

There is one glaring error that has not been addressed on this page; the players that joined Chelsea after Mourinho joined the club were not signed by him. Mourinho has made two transfers, Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira, the rest ( Drogba, Cech, Kezman etc. ) were all signed by the previous manager, Claudio Ranieri, back in Jan 2004 for the summer. Please update, as constant praise ( even from seasoned commentators ) for Mourinho signings is extremely irritating. The man is arrogant enough, please do not give him credit where it is not due.

This is unfair criticism of the article, the underlying feeling of jealousy and hatred towards Chelsea is trying to make its way into an academic resource. Such stupidity should be left to the tabloids or drunkards in the public houses of the UK. Drogba was signed under Mourinho, and despite being a Manchester United fan, I agree totally with this article and will protest any changes.

I thought Drogba was also signed by him, no? Mandel 16:44, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Drogba and Kezman were both signed by Mourinho... Ranieri only signed Cech and Robben in Jan. 2004

A pedant writes - can you follow a gauntlet?

He's arrogant, but he still gets the job done. He still whips most managers' asses, even though I respect Benitez and Wenger too. Quit blaming him for shit that doesn't matter in football. Maybe your beloved 'insert name' masturbates and watches porn, but that doesn't give anyone the right to blame him for it. He is a manager first and foremost. And he's achieved great things with Porto, who ain't got Abramovich. And look at Real: same as Chelsea (money, players), but are shit.

[edit] Anders Frisk

I think it should be mentioned in the article that the allegation that Mourinho made on Anders Frisk after the FC Barcelona Champions League tie resulted in death threats made by Chelsea fans on Frisk's life, and this was a major cause in Frisk announcing his retirement.

[edit] Article style

This article is a personal opinion about Mourinho. For example, the following sentence "Any second rate manager with the kind of transfer budget the Bank of Russia enjoy every season could win the premiership year in year out." is not the kind of sentence you would wish to see in an encyclopedia. Besides that, I've known Mourinho before he went to Chelsea and his greatest achievements are the victories with FC Porto (a club without money, not like Chelsea) and not the current results with Chelsea. Anyway, even in Chelsea he has an impressive record, so I just think this article should be rewritten by an unbiased person.

Just go and change the POV. Don't even need to bother reporting this before you change it. Such people are clearly just vandals, with no wish of making Wikipedia NPOV. Mandel 18:48, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

as a celtic fan ive known defeat by mourinho first hand (uefa cup final 2003) and the guy is by far one if not the best managers in the world

[edit] Neutrality

I've added the NPOV tag - this article his horrendously biassed, as discussed above. If/when I have more time, I'll come back and try to clean it up, unless someone else beats me to it. Waggers 15:08, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Unless you can provide a valid, reputable, unbiassed source for such claims, they would be classified as Original Research and would therefore be excluded.. As it stands, such comments would definitely violate WP:NPOV. Waggers 16:30, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] updating

This article was extremely out of date and contained absolutely no information regarding Mourinho's progress at Chelsea throughout the 05/06 season and so I have updated it now (23rd April 2006) and will do so soon because such an influential and prominent figure in the sport of football deserves to have an up to date reference page. If anyone feels the article is slighly partisan, please ensure it is edited to preserve the article's crdibility and integrity. I have simply tried to cronicle the 05/06 season in a entertaining and literally sophisticated form of prose, as it is the only way to describe such a colourful persona. My update starts half way hrough the chelsea section with the line 'During the summer'User:Rory W-A 16:51 23RD APRIL 2006

[edit] Leiria

Leiria beste league finish with mourinho was fourth not fifth.

Whats wrong with him (Jose) he thinks no end of himself. As its always said "He who flies high falls hard."

NEED A HONOURS SECTION ON THAT !!!!