Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho is back in England as his AS Roma side is taking on Leicester City in the semifinals of the UEFA Conference League. Although most questions were about his matchup against The Foxes, the Portuguese manager shed some light on his exit from north London.
Mourinho has been coaching for two decades now, and he has seen the good and the bad that come with the job. However, he did state having a distinctive experience while at the helm of Spurs.
The Roma boss was asked about being afraid to win the competition, leading him to describe his stint at Tottenham and chairman Daniel Levy in one word when discussing the good and bad that football has given the 59-year-old.
“In my long career with so many things that happened to me for good for bad, that one is quite unique, but I also think Mr. Levy is quite a unique person,” Mourinho said at his news conference.
Mourinho spent two seasons managing 88 fixtures with Tottenham leading him to possess a record of 44 wins, 19 draws, and 23 losses. The former manager also had a winning percentage of 51-percent during his tenure.
My narrative is that one minor trophy in 23 years is atrocious. Making no signings for over a year and making your way through 12 managers with nothing to show for it. It’s not a ‘narrative’ it’s a logical response to the running of the club. If you’re trying to spin this as some kind of illogical rant based in myths, then jog on pal. It’s not really going to float here is it? 🤔
Do you work for ENIC in some capacity?
Go bc easy on who? Our parasitic owners? On what basis? 🤔
What you are doing is conflating facts to suit your narrative. Once you theorized as your thesis anything positive is inspite of Levy it is hard to see any other reasoning
Carry on. Cheers mate.
Unique…six letters used for a four letter word..
Oh to be a fly on the wall during that final meeting.
I can think of other words to describe Levy.
I have at no point been singing the praises of Mourinho. The point I’m making is that the whole Mourinho episode was just a further demonstration of the directionless, bodge it up and make do mentality that Levy seems to think is good enough for this football club. I’m not a Mourinho fan, but he is who he is and what he is. Whereas Levy is a lying snake, and he’ll do anything to enrich himself over the priorities of the club.
I think he avoids the media and supporters so that his ineptitude cannot be publicly questioned.He must know he’s an ars*ole where football is concerned,he just doesn’t want it confirmed.
Happened to have TalkSport on in the car the other day and Simon Jordan seemed absolutely adamant that Daniel had made his mind up that Jose had to go, and simply could not take the risk that it would be made more difficult by winning a trophy.
Not just about the extra pay, but also binning a manager that just delivered the first trophy in 15 years is a tough sell to the media – just tells me Levy is more interested in his ego and wallet than silverware.
Not that I need to tell anyone here that!
Correct. Our model involves getting lucky with a couple of bits of quality, then surrounding them with dross, before letting the quality go for a tidy profit, hoping for top 6 and the odd semi final in the meantime.
We had a chance to kick on 5 years ago and they blew it. We’ll wait a decade more for the next one.
Jose, like the others before him, wanted steak in the transfer window and got that vegan stuff. So he essentially gave up and literally parked the bus since he was bereft of attacking options.
I think you give Levy too much credit. He’s just an incompetent football manager, a numbers guy that has no clue about anything else. He has zero relationship skills so he avoids the media and supporters. Thus his single focus is to manage the club like any other asset in his property portfolio.
Go easy there bud. Jose is as egotistical as they come. I never agreed with him sacking Jose at the time, as in a final looking for just the one chance to clinch victory may have worked. To Jose credit he never complained about the type of players he had, we as fans did. My point still remains, tactically we went from attacking beautiful football to a progressively dull dreary and hard to watch after the West Ham punch to the gut. Levy has his world of faults which is not up for debate, but try convince me.
Listen, we all know Spurs have no chance at ever winning anything as long as teams like City, United, Liverpool and Chelsea spend more on their bench than we do on the first 11. Conte has said this many times already.
So for acconplished coaches like Tony and Jose the Spurs position is more or less a lark, a free punt with a nice paycheck. And it always will be until Enic sell.
I wasn’t personally a fan of Jose‘s methods, however, if you appoint someone like that you have to move forward in a way that is conducive to that appointment. Sacking him just before final, partly to save money and partly out of spite just tells you everything you need to know about Levy’s mindset.
He uses people like toilet paper, sacks them to make it look like it’s all on them when generally it hasn’t worked because he hasn’t given them the tools to do the job. These are people that also generally win things after they leave and before they come.
He feigns ambition because he knows it’s that illusion that keeps the punters coughing up. Hitting the reset every few seasons is part of it. You get someone in, if it goes too well for too long he feels that the fan base will expect the team to kick on and progress. This doesn’t fit into his business plan, so he fires everyone, then the spin starts again about yet another ‘brave new dawn’.
He’s also flip flopped with the DOF thing over the years to also create this illusion that he’s committed to ‘fixing’ things. He smiles and says the right things when needed, but he’s just an arrogant little pr*ck…
What was very unique about Jose tenure was parking 8 players on our 18 yards line after that Westham debacle. The football got more negative. Manager select the 11 and make tactical decision that is what they are paid for. Same here with Conte, he is going to ram that 343 through until it work whether he has the players not. Jose needs to move on already. He has gone sour on previous clubs to their dismay, he moved on to the highest bidders. Time to let it go. Don’t cry a tear for Jose, he will find another job after walk out on Roma. Tick tick.
The closest Levy gets to a trophy is his egg cup at breakfast.
I did the tour early this summer when we were waiting for the Romero deal to go through, if you remember it took weeks. I asked the guide if he knew what the delay was and he said “Mr Levy likes to take his time”. I replied that’s why we miss out on most of the good targets and he agreed.
I can’t imagine anybody seeing eye to eye with Levy after all his abject failures, but I expect the stadium staff get paid a good salary so they have to be careful what they say. I expect they are bugged.
And they said Mourinho was hired to win trophies. It’s not even cognitive dissonance, it’s just evil at work
Becoming ??
For a man who hates publicity he hasn’t done too bad for himself.
More coaches/managers will realise what they’re dealing with in Levy and will turn the job down just like Potter did, he’s in the last chance saloon with Conte.
Absolute power, propaganda and lies to con everyone that he’s a force for good. What’s the key difference between the way he operates and likes of Putin?
I did the stadium tour a couple of years ago and the quy showing us around kept going on about “Mr Levy” like he was some kind of emperor who should demand everyone’s respect. I had to stop myself laughing out loud! It just felt bizarre, and actually quite hilarious.
He’s a total scumbag…
Levy is a lying toe rag and a user…
Why is out parasitic chairman always so much to the fore of our club? What other club has their chairman as such a figurehead? Truth is he is an egomaniac and greedy control freak who has made it his life’s work to smother our chances of success and enrich himself at the fans expense. His activities belong in an undemocratic nation such as perhaps Putin’s Russia or the Middle East, places where demigods can rule without question or being responsible to anybody.
The simple fact remain that Levy likely cost us a rare trophy by sacking Mourinho to save a few quid. Disgusting behaviour.
I think it’s what he didn’t say that speaks volumes.He used the restrictions on what he can say to very good effect.There can’t be andbody in world football who is not aware of what Levy is and how he restricts Spurs’ chances of success.
If it is true that he sacked Mourinho so as not pay him a trophy bonus he is beyond odious and hopefully he becomes a pariah in football.
Levy is becoming the personality of this club…could anything be worse than that?
It’s the way he said it and that death stare at the end, a man who knows what it’s like to be betrayed
“Unique” I think that just about sat it all! 😂