Mourinho officially Inter – can the Special Ones win the Champions League?
Even if Jose Mourinho wins FA in his Inter tenure, one thing is guaranteed – he will raise Chelsea’s Inter’s profile through the press in an astronomical way.
Whether he baits the media and opposition managers and players with the same ‘hate me if you can’ approach or whether he shows us a different side with charm and loving oozing from his pores still remains to be seen, but Mourinho will make Inter more of a global brand thanks to his own notoriety.
This brings us to the reason Mourinho was brought onboard – helping Inter win the Champions League and continue their domestic domination. And of course, the chance of grabbing a few of his old friends from Chelsea.
While Milan may be ‘talking’ about bringing Drogba to Milan, they’re more likely to succeed with Shevchenko (who’s not coming unless his wife says so). Chelsea are talking to Drogba, trying to find a way to get him to commit himself to Chelsea heart and soul, but they don’t have a manager, and whoever they pick, he won’t be Mourinho. There’s still a chance that Drogba will stay but it will depend on a lot of things – Lampard, the new manager, his strike partners next season, whether Mourinho is serious about bringing him over or not, etc etc.
Drogba to Inter? The most likely player to move from Chelsea at this point. Lampard I feel will stay as he’s English through and through, and Carvalho will probably wait to see who the next manager is.
But back to the Special One and his new batch of ’special ones’. Can they win the Champions League?
I think so, provided that Inter:
don’t meet Rafa’s Liverpool – if there’s one fixture Mourinho would hate, that would be it. If Rafa goes then it’s a different story though.
don’t interfere with Mourinho’s transfers / selection policies – the man needs a free hand to keep the unity in the squad
If the above two work out in Inter’s favor, Mourinho should be able to drag the special ones kicking and screaming to at least the quarters, and after that it’s anyone’s game, and if he gets his players then I’d be back Mourinho over almost everyone else.
Good luck Jose. Hope you have an easier time in Italy. Oh, and go easy on the refs.
Jose will be great for Inter from a League standpoint. But he has trouble with the Champions League tournament, and I don’t expect anything more from him than what he failed to accomplish with Chelsea.
One hell of a manager for the most part though, you can’t argue with the loyalty he commands from his players.
DWL, Mourihno has problems with chapions league, what world are u from? He won the champs league with PORTO, beating the likes of manU along the way. He never won with chelsea but he reach the semis nearly every year, I would hardly call that a problem.
He is a great manager, and both he and inter want to win the champs league we will all have to wait and c if he can do it.
In an interesting move, Giuseppe “Beppe” Baresi, who managed the Inter youth sector, will be his second in command.
Apparently, according to Inter web site, Mr. Mourinho will also be assisted by Rui Farias, Silvino and Andrei Villas Boas who were part of his back room staff at Chelsea.
I would love Mourinho to meet with Wenger in the Champions League Group stages. No love lost between these two men. Mourinho once famously (or infamously) described Wenger as a “voyeur” for his interest in all things Chelsea, and almost found himself in the law courts as a result. Wenger has never forgotten.
Benitez, like Wenger, had a very difficult relationship with “the Special Mouth”. It would be super fun to see Mourinho have to pit his wits once more against Benitez in the knock-out stages. Benitez is the man who delivered more pain to Mourinho than any other in his managerial career, and Liverpool are the club more than any other who made the greatest contribution to Mourinho ultimately getting the sack (er…, sorry, what’s the expresssion? Oh yes, “termination of contract by mutual consent”!).
Welcome back, Jose. The world has been a quieter place without you.
Remember though, he doesn’t want to be called “the Special One” anymore.
Too bad.
Legend, shame he is out of the English game!
“Mourinho has shown he has two massive things down below,†said Gattuso.
“He can speak better Italian than me and I was born here.”
“He is a great coach and he will be good here, it’s a shame he has gone to Inter.”
Source: Goal.com.
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