One man got Mourinho the sack- Arsene Wenger

donaldo · Post by **donaldo** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:57 am

The reason Abramovich sacked Mourinho is down to one thing, his plays Boring football.Roman has given Mourinho hundreds of millions to spend yet all they play is long ball football. Abramovich wants entertaining football and would love to have a manager like Arsene and a team that plays football the way we do The beautiful game that is played by Arsene Wenger.All the money that Abramovich has given Mourinho and all his teams can play is dull football. Well done Arsene for continuing to play the game it should be played.Mourinho will never ever be the manager Arsene is.The sacking of Mourinho is a great day for football

All_Arsenal_1886 · Post by **All_Arsenal_1886** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:10 am

I don't care what any Chelski fans say to me, Roman wanted to see good football and he just wasn't getting it.
I bet Roman has watched many highlights of the Arsenal and wished his team played football like that.

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:01 am

Fair enough sacking Jose for that I suppose but was the interfering and the board room stuff really needed? He should note how Arsene's relationship with the board is him telling them what he wants and they try to do it.

donaldo · Post by **donaldo** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:18 am

Magic Hat

Abramovich did not tell his team to play dull,sterile football that was down to that wanker Mourinho.If i had given my manager over Â£200m i think i might like some answers.Mourinho"s teams just dont entertain.Long ball to Drogba and Fat Frank picks up the scraps.Watching paint dry is more exciting.Mourinho won titles but anyone given the amount of money he was should have done the same.Wenger and Ferguson send out teams to entertain why couldn"t the special one(what a joke) do that?
Fuck off Mourinho and dont come back

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:25 am

Installing backroom staff that manager didn't want like Grant, not sorting out the clash of ego's between guy in charge of youth and Jose, buying players the manager didn't want for big money then refusing to even allow him a loan player that Jose wanted. Fine, sack the manager for being boring or a twat but don't undermine him or do things like I described above.

Post by **REB** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:48 am

theres more 2 this then just arsenals football,, jose is his own man and wasnt goin 2 be a yes man,, he would never quit cos it would cost him 2 much money,, so they went the way they thought best,, he was fired but they wont say that,, it seems 2 me he refused 2 resign and got his compensation claim in and then it was offically by mutual consent

timao · Post by **timao** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:19 pm

All this stuff about Abramovich wanting to watch entertaining football makes me laugh. Did anyone find out why he sacked Ranieri? Chelsea did play good football in those days and with one or two exceptions the new signings all worked well. Ranieri took too long to deliver silverware though. So Abramovich signed Mourninho precisely because of his functional approach.

It's quite possible that with a bit more time, Ranieri could have turned Chelski into a title winning team with real class. But Abramovich really does not give a monkey's about the club. He reminds me of one of those people who have a vicious looking dog to make themselves look hard, but actually don't give a toss about the poor mutt on the end of the chain. Rom wants Chelsea to make him look like a great guy. He got rid of Jose because Jose was taking the plaudits and rubbishing the chairman at will if he felt like it. Well, as most (extant) dogs know, you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

And all the so-called fans at Chelsea who've been singing Mourinho's name since he's been sacked - they would be the same ones who were singing Ranieri's name when Mourinho was appointed I suppose. I never met a single Chelsea fan over the last seven years who had the slightest qualm about Rom's policy of spending ridiculous amounts of money every year in an attempt to buy the title. "No-one complained about Blackburn did they?" was the general justification. Pathetic. Now the wheels are coming off I find it hard generate much sympathy.

26may1989 · Post by **26may1989** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:47 pm

I don't really get why people ever liked Mourinho, he's a tosser who produces super-boring football. But I agree with Magic, the real problem at Chelsea has been the interference from Roman and all his hangers-on.

Mourinho was brought in to win trophies and (much as I dislike him and everything about that shit club) he did it, in spades. But now Roman wants something else, he wants to be "loved" for producing beautiful football. Like he even begins to understand what beautiful football really means.

So, without any forward planning, he's shaking his toy. If he and his troop of nodding dog yesmen carry on this way (and I pray they do) the most likely outcome is they fuck Chelsea up, because the interference won't stop, there will be more of it. Grant will be sacked and ten Cate (or whatever he's called) will take over, the he'll be sacked etc etc, and any sensible players will start to see that leaving makes sense.

Of course, that could all be wishful thinking, and they might well achieve some success yet, but that's the direction Chelsea are heading at the moment.

26may1989 · Post by **26may1989** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:51 pm

timao wrote:It's quite possible that with a bit more time, Ranieri could have turned Chelski into a title winning team with real class.

Sorry, I meant to say Timao, no, I don't think Ranieri could have won the title, he just isn't up to the quality of Mourinho. Claudio might have been amusing but face it, he's crap. Valencia realised it when he went back there.

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:41 am

Roman didn't think Ranieri was good enough but was too patent to sack him immediately and was at one point willing to keep him until the semi final got mucked up. Jose, despite relations breaking down for a long while, he kept on when others would have sacked awhile back, it was only when it was clear that the team was stagnating did Roman give the chop. He is relatively patient if hardly an ideal person to work under.

I did know one or two Chelsea fans who objected less so to Roman's money but to how he let others buy players not of the managers choosing.

gunners-need-steel · Post by **gunners-need-steel** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:50 am

Seems most people have been taken in by Maurinho's tricky and desired exit ... He was not really sacked by will, he rather demanded it .. the guy was desparate to escape as he saw chelsea were not going anywhere, and his usual way of solving such problems (ie, splash another 20-40 millons) had been blocked ...

I watched an interview where someone involved described how Maurinho appeared to deliberately want to be sacked .. even asked for it, in response to innocent comment from Abramovich.

I know one can never be 100% about these stories, but that version of events seems more plausible to me than the version that suggests he was sacked purely for not playing the style of football demanded by Abramovich. The fact that he went as such a bad time in the season further adds some credibility to this account of his departure.

However it came to be, good riddance to the special wanker ... he was bad for the game, with his pettiness and moaning and lying .. and what about his proudly demanding route-1 football after wasting 100s of millions of pounds ...