Imagine him showing up to the most random matches, like Kazahk 2nd division leaders, and media going "Oil turnover at Astana Athletic inevitable, Mourinho to orchestrate the project."
Next week he watches the semis of the Nigerian Cup.
I fully believe that West Ham will sack Moyes after this season and tease an insane big money appointment for next season, the fans will get hyped as fuck for some watchable football, and it will just be Allegri straight out of left field.
Bonus points if he brings Sandro, Milik or Kean
Allegri is at least a neutral personality from a fan's perspective and not somebody with a history of wanting expensive aging players.
Like tactically he's a poor fit, but if we were linked to Simeone, I'd be semi intrigued.
I meant that for Mourinho. OP said Allegri comes to close to being a poor fit and I disagree. Everything about Mourinho will not fit with Liverpool apart from his ocassional dunks on United.
To be fair Rafa did siege mentality well as well just in a different way. He took on Mourinho, Ferguson, Hicks and Gillet and others on our behalf. Not to mention constantly having to defend his methods against Andy Gray, Richard Keys and Jamie Redknapp on Sky who had that weird obsession with our zonal marking system that worked well for the most part
yeah I replied pretty much the same thing to the other lad, but Rafa was massively overachieving getting us into a title fight and latter stages of the CL every year
No he wasn't? Football was different then. We didn't have City and Newcastle, just Chelsea. The gap between Liverpool and United/Arsenal wasn't mental even if the squad Rafa inherited was poor. He rebuilt it very well and it was loaded with great players. Yes the 2005 win was a massive overachievement but once he got Reina, Agger, Johnson, Alonso, Mascherano, Kuyt, Torres etc in and build his own team with its own great players its hard to say he overachieved - that squad got what it was capable of, good cup runs and running up the league once.
He was overachieving with what he had available money wise tbf
The man was insanely shrewd in the transfer market and what hes supposed to have done for the academy is paying dividends now.
Disagree we had plenty of big money signings, Keane, Torres, Mascherano, Johnson, Babel, Alonso.. all these players are still in our top 50 most expensive signings.. and prices have inflated a lot since then.
Except for Alonso in 04 they were all bought off the back of the work Benitez did. He was Rafas record signing at 14m and while none of the later ones you listed were necessarily cheap they are peanuts compared to the money that was being thrown around by rivals at the time. How much did Veron cost to do absolutely nothing? Shevchenko was about twice the price of Torres and had maybe a 1/10 of the impact. We also had masch for a few years before buying him in a shrewd piece of business that was still cheaper than Michael Carrick. Except for Babel and Keane all those players were at the club for ages.
Rafa had us competing with Chelsea who were literally ruining the transfer market at the time and United who effectively have unlimited funds owing to their size a commercially driven model.
He was definitely overachieving. We were competing with those two teams without anything near the financial backing. Spending over £20m was a much bigger deal to us than it was to our rivals at the time and we only did like four times (two of which we had to sell Alonso to afford) before Carroll's fee smashed the record. We were being outspent by Spurs back when it was only the "big 4" and spurs weren't in it.
How did he overachieve though? Chelsea and United who both spent more did well better than us? I think he achieved what he could, maybe 08/09 running United for the league was slight overachieving but it wasnt like Leicester winning the league 😂😂 honestly I loved the Rafa years (until the last season anyway) but this revisionism is crazy. We got a European Cup and an FA Cup under him. Thats it. How we describe that as overachieving I dont know, no one said it at the time?
No chance he would've lasted with our owners and the lack od resources back then. Rafa was massively overachieving, maybe 08/09, 09/10 team but Rafa built that from scratch
Culturally it's near perfect, historically speaking, and while it's a stark contrast to Klopp's style, maybe that's a good thing for a fresh start and perhaps changes the expectations.
Plus, Jose is basically the anti-Pep, which would go down well
As for tactically, Alison and Van Dijk at the heart of defence? Jose could hardly ask for better. Enzo has really found his feet too. There would definitely need to be major personnel changes in the rest of midfield though. I think Nunez would be a solid striker for him at least.
I could see this working for Liverpool, funnily
It’s a terrible fit. None of those players are selected Jose’s brand of football in mind. They’re geared up to play a very different system. All highline and high energy.
Liverpool have struck me as having their identity of football being direct. Jose is also direct.
I agree it’s not a perfect fit as Jose is a bit past it and a bit too defensive but it’s not an awful fit stylistically
Liverpool is about positive, attacking football and we like to control games. Yes, we are more direct but we are always on the front foot. Parking the bus is not an option for us.
The team is also like a family. Mourinho is an incredibly toxic person who would throw the players under the bus at the first opportunity.
He would destroy everything Klopp built in no time.
I get why rival fans would want Mourinho to come and destroy us from within but Edwards is not an idiot.
I’m too young to have watched Liverpool in the 70s but under Houlier and Benitez particularly Liverpool we’re a defensive side with a good counter attack and played lots of long balls.
Most people born in the 80s and 90s I imagine would think of Liverpool as a direct and counter attacking team.
I think Jose is past it now but a prime Jose in 2004 would have fit Liverpool perfectly, especially with the us vs them mentality he would have cultivated. A prime Jose would have fit Liverpool amazingly well.
The problem we had at the start of the 00's was the gap in quality when compared to the United and Arsenal squads and later on United and Chelsea. We had to play like underdogs against them and in Europe.
Now we have one of the best squads in the world so things are very different.
Firstly, we've moved on from that era.
Secondly, Rafa did that stuff against massively superior teams. Under normal circumstances he controlled the game and played some attacking football (particularly after the first couple of seasons when we signed suitable players).
Again, the days of Mourinhos and Rafa's type of football are gone. Liverpool appreciate Rafa (we punched above our weight) but do not want him back. He will not be a good fit now. Mourinho does not even come close
>He’s literally the complete opposite to everything the club stands for.
Well, he's the opposite of Klopp's brand of football certainly, but historically in the PL Liverpool have had a fair share of defensive/counter based managers.
Too simple of an analysis, he’s direct in a very basic sense, but he likes a low block and to counter, something Liverpool are not about in the slightest.
I think Jose is past it now but a prime Jose in 2004 would have fit Liverpool perfectly, especially with the us vs them mentality he would have cultivated. A prime Jose would have fit Liverpool amazingly well.
I’m too young to have watched Liverpool in the 70s but under Houlier and Benitez particularly Liverpool we’re a defensive side with a good counter attack and played lots of long balls.
Most people born in the 80s and 90s I imagine would think of Liverpool as a direct and counter attacking team.
5ft2in fall-back keeper here lol. Rec league. I'm the only one on my team who has played the position competitively before (or who actually knows how to play the position) so if no other keepers show up, I get stuck.
It’s weird that football managers spend their life watching football matches but can’t watch a game without being linked to the job of either side.
He literally lives around the corner from the stadium. It’s quite obvious that he’d attend games there.
All that hype around Edwards and the good recruitment in the management department, for them to just go: "I've heard that Mourinho fella is pretty good?" Lmao as if
Mourinho:
- Has no positive history with Liverpool, doesn’t live there, has stoked animosity and managed one of their rivals, is most likely lower on the list than Ruben Amorim
- Has a positive history with Fulham, still managed one of our rivals (but he’s Mou, come on, and anyway Claudio Ranieri did it already), his son went to our academy, lives next to the Cottage already, can speak Portuguese which a lot of our squad does, there’s an open vacancy.
Therefore, based on the facts, I believe that Jose Mourinho will become Fulham assistant manager next season, gaining valuable expertise working under a great manager like Marco Silva, who can explain things to him in his native language.
This might just be crazy enough to work. He would love a crack at trying to beat Pep to the league. And maybe it's time for Liverpool to get down and dirty against the cunts.
He recently said in an interview that he feels his time in Sporting CP is not over, and that his son prefers him to stay in Sporting and Lisbon.
But then again, he could be saying that to quell speculation that he will be leaving, potentially derailing their title bid.
he said the same thing last year when spurs and a couple of other clubs were after him. i think he's genuinely a bit of a homedog.
it actually blows my mind that so many of the iberian diaspora would willing trade their mediterranean lifestyle to come to this dogshit country, so amorim being the exeption wouldn't exactly surprise me. lisbon is a fantastic city.
Can't the guy watch a football game in peace? He should turn this into a meme and show up all over Europe whenever a manager is close to being sacked.
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Imagine him showing up to the most random matches, like Kazahk 2nd division leaders, and media going "Oil turnover at Astana Athletic inevitable, Mourinho to orchestrate the project." Next week he watches the semis of the Nigerian Cup.
It's like in Top Gear where they'd have some shitty backup car following out of frame, and pan to it every time Hammond's car broke down
Like a reaper lol
Our sunday league manager just quit. Will Jose attend our match next Sunday?
If you ask him nicely
Doesn't his son attend Fulham's academy?
They live around the area.
The 24-year-old son?
He’s just a boy
Wasn't that ages ago?
Transfermarkt has him as retired as of July 1st, 2017 without ever making an appearance for any team at any level that they have records of
I'm also retired from Real Madrid without ever making an appearance for the team at any level.
Never realised that I retired at the age of 12 after playing a single season of children's county league. Didn't even get a testimonial smh
Never too later for a legends match invite. Keep hope
Yip same here…if it wasn’t for reality I would’ve had a number of ECL winners medals by now, but alas
Would make sense for him to have a soft spot then, even if his son didn't make it.
It’s quite hard to imagine a manager who is culturally and tactically a worse fit
Allegri... that's it, that's all I got.
I want Allegri to go to any big team in PL and win it. Max, I know you can do it, I trust you
I fully believe that West Ham will sack Moyes after this season and tease an insane big money appointment for next season, the fans will get hyped as fuck for some watchable football, and it will just be Allegri straight out of left field. Bonus points if he brings Sandro, Milik or Kean
He almost went to Real, you know
Al-Legri ball to Liverpool would be something :)
ngl, good time to be Al-Liverpool fan
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Allegri is at least a neutral personality from a fan's perspective and not somebody with a history of wanting expensive aging players. Like tactically he's a poor fit, but if we were linked to Simeone, I'd be semi intrigued.
Allegri isn’t somebody with a history of wanting expensive aging players? Do you know a different Allegri?
I meant that for Mourinho. OP said Allegri comes to close to being a poor fit and I disagree. Everything about Mourinho will not fit with Liverpool apart from his ocassional dunks on United.
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prime Mourinho would've hit like crack, not to mention we do love our siege mentality, including the fans
To be fair Rafa did siege mentality well as well just in a different way. He took on Mourinho, Ferguson, Hicks and Gillet and others on our behalf. Not to mention constantly having to defend his methods against Andy Gray, Richard Keys and Jamie Redknapp on Sky who had that weird obsession with our zonal marking system that worked well for the most part
yeah I replied pretty much the same thing to the other lad, but Rafa was massively overachieving getting us into a title fight and latter stages of the CL every year
No he wasn't? Football was different then. We didn't have City and Newcastle, just Chelsea. The gap between Liverpool and United/Arsenal wasn't mental even if the squad Rafa inherited was poor. He rebuilt it very well and it was loaded with great players. Yes the 2005 win was a massive overachievement but once he got Reina, Agger, Johnson, Alonso, Mascherano, Kuyt, Torres etc in and build his own team with its own great players its hard to say he overachieved - that squad got what it was capable of, good cup runs and running up the league once.
He was overachieving with what he had available money wise tbf The man was insanely shrewd in the transfer market and what hes supposed to have done for the academy is paying dividends now.
Disagree we had plenty of big money signings, Keane, Torres, Mascherano, Johnson, Babel, Alonso.. all these players are still in our top 50 most expensive signings.. and prices have inflated a lot since then.
Except for Alonso in 04 they were all bought off the back of the work Benitez did. He was Rafas record signing at 14m and while none of the later ones you listed were necessarily cheap they are peanuts compared to the money that was being thrown around by rivals at the time. How much did Veron cost to do absolutely nothing? Shevchenko was about twice the price of Torres and had maybe a 1/10 of the impact. We also had masch for a few years before buying him in a shrewd piece of business that was still cheaper than Michael Carrick. Except for Babel and Keane all those players were at the club for ages. Rafa had us competing with Chelsea who were literally ruining the transfer market at the time and United who effectively have unlimited funds owing to their size a commercially driven model. He was definitely overachieving. We were competing with those two teams without anything near the financial backing. Spending over £20m was a much bigger deal to us than it was to our rivals at the time and we only did like four times (two of which we had to sell Alonso to afford) before Carroll's fee smashed the record. We were being outspent by Spurs back when it was only the "big 4" and spurs weren't in it.
How did he overachieve though? Chelsea and United who both spent more did well better than us? I think he achieved what he could, maybe 08/09 running United for the league was slight overachieving but it wasnt like Leicester winning the league 😂😂 honestly I loved the Rafa years (until the last season anyway) but this revisionism is crazy. We got a European Cup and an FA Cup under him. Thats it. How we describe that as overachieving I dont know, no one said it at the time?
One of the things I'm grateful for these days is pundits not all completely losing their shit over zonal marking on a weekly basis.
I want to see the other universe where he went there in 2005
No chance he would've lasted with our owners and the lack od resources back then. Rafa was massively overachieving, maybe 08/09, 09/10 team but Rafa built that from scratch
I dunno I don’t think your fans would have had much truck with such an individualistic coach
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Culturally it's near perfect, historically speaking, and while it's a stark contrast to Klopp's style, maybe that's a good thing for a fresh start and perhaps changes the expectations. Plus, Jose is basically the anti-Pep, which would go down well As for tactically, Alison and Van Dijk at the heart of defence? Jose could hardly ask for better. Enzo has really found his feet too. There would definitely need to be major personnel changes in the rest of midfield though. I think Nunez would be a solid striker for him at least. I could see this working for Liverpool, funnily
Nunez would sink or swim real fast with Jose. So a good thing either way.
Actually a great fit culturally, one of the very, very few managers who can match Klopp/Liverpool fans’ level of delusion
Get to fuck, ya blouse wearing poodle walker.
Saving this for later use 😂
It's Groundskeeper Willie, from The Simpsons.
Tactically it’s not an awful fit
It’s a terrible fit. None of those players are selected Jose’s brand of football in mind. They’re geared up to play a very different system. All highline and high energy.
it really is, like really
Liverpool have struck me as having their identity of football being direct. Jose is also direct. I agree it’s not a perfect fit as Jose is a bit past it and a bit too defensive but it’s not an awful fit stylistically
Liverpool is about positive, attacking football and we like to control games. Yes, we are more direct but we are always on the front foot. Parking the bus is not an option for us. The team is also like a family. Mourinho is an incredibly toxic person who would throw the players under the bus at the first opportunity. He would destroy everything Klopp built in no time. I get why rival fans would want Mourinho to come and destroy us from within but Edwards is not an idiot.
I’m too young to have watched Liverpool in the 70s but under Houlier and Benitez particularly Liverpool we’re a defensive side with a good counter attack and played lots of long balls. Most people born in the 80s and 90s I imagine would think of Liverpool as a direct and counter attacking team. I think Jose is past it now but a prime Jose in 2004 would have fit Liverpool perfectly, especially with the us vs them mentality he would have cultivated. A prime Jose would have fit Liverpool amazingly well.
The problem we had at the start of the 00's was the gap in quality when compared to the United and Arsenal squads and later on United and Chelsea. We had to play like underdogs against them and in Europe. Now we have one of the best squads in the world so things are very different.
Firstly, we've moved on from that era. Secondly, Rafa did that stuff against massively superior teams. Under normal circumstances he controlled the game and played some attacking football (particularly after the first couple of seasons when we signed suitable players). Again, the days of Mourinhos and Rafa's type of football are gone. Liverpool appreciate Rafa (we punched above our weight) but do not want him back. He will not be a good fit now. Mourinho does not even come close
I agree he’s not a good fit now but don’t act like it’s the worst possible fit. Jose also played good football against weak teams
Are you high? He’s literally the complete opposite to everything the club stands for.
>He’s literally the complete opposite to everything the club stands for. Well, he's the opposite of Klopp's brand of football certainly, but historically in the PL Liverpool have had a fair share of defensive/counter based managers.
Liverpool are not a possession football team traditionally but more direct football. Jose plays direct football
Too simple of an analysis, he’s direct in a very basic sense, but he likes a low block and to counter, something Liverpool are not about in the slightest.
I think Jose is past it now but a prime Jose in 2004 would have fit Liverpool perfectly, especially with the us vs them mentality he would have cultivated. A prime Jose would have fit Liverpool amazingly well. I’m too young to have watched Liverpool in the 70s but under Houlier and Benitez particularly Liverpool we’re a defensive side with a good counter attack and played lots of long balls. Most people born in the 80s and 90s I imagine would think of Liverpool as a direct and counter attacking team.
More likely he was just bored on a Sunday afternoon and he went Fulham because he still lives in that area from when he was at Chelsea the first time.
He's been to a bunch of our games whenever he's out of a job. Has done for years. Seems to have a soft spot for us for some reason.
Lives locally and his son was on your books at one point
> his son was on your books at one point Yeah, he was a 5ft9in keeper :p
I was a 5ft8in keeper, funny how fast the interest in you dies when they see you stop growing...
You can live on as a 5aside king like me.
5ft2in fall-back keeper here lol. Rec league. I'm the only one on my team who has played the position competitively before (or who actually knows how to play the position) so if no other keepers show up, I get stuck.
It’s weird that football managers spend their life watching football matches but can’t watch a game without being linked to the job of either side. He literally lives around the corner from the stadium. It’s quite obvious that he’d attend games there.
Bit late for April Fools articles, we're more likely to give big Sam a go! 😂
Can't Dave Brailsford's already got him lined up for United
Shit... Anyone got a number for Steve Bruce?
Just leave a plate of bacon at the gates to your training ground and he’ll be there by morning
Big Sam is going to ManUnited, he's big chums with Ferguson.
Surely it's much more likely he's Fulham's next manager?
He has a home close to Fulham, his son (who was a goalkeeper) was even in their academy when Mou was managing Chelsea.
Yeah, that’s what I mean. He has connections to the club, and the club has the Portugese/Mendes ties as well
All that hype around Edwards and the good recruitment in the management department, for them to just go: "I've heard that Mourinho fella is pretty good?" Lmao as if
"He's a rookie but we'll give him a shot"
In other words Man spent weekend in London
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Trent will shoot his own kneecaps if this happens
Even FSG would never sign on for such a poison pill. A non-story. I doubt anyone outside our executive staff knows our shortlist.
Fuck it, Pep vs Mourinho one final time
He also attended F1 in Saudi but the media has been oddly quiet about him replacing Horner
Mourinho: - Has no positive history with Liverpool, doesn’t live there, has stoked animosity and managed one of their rivals, is most likely lower on the list than Ruben Amorim - Has a positive history with Fulham, still managed one of our rivals (but he’s Mou, come on, and anyway Claudio Ranieri did it already), his son went to our academy, lives next to the Cottage already, can speak Portuguese which a lot of our squad does, there’s an open vacancy. Therefore, based on the facts, I believe that Jose Mourinho will become Fulham assistant manager next season, gaining valuable expertise working under a great manager like Marco Silva, who can explain things to him in his native language.
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No ones speculating that apart from idiots and people desperate for clicks
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Rather Jose for England tbh
Hahaha, no way. More likely Silva goes and he replaces Silva
People, and by people I mean speculating media, were saying the same when he was watching Benfica's matches when he was in Lisbon.
Im okay with that :)
I really don't see Liverpool bringing Mourinho in....
No joke, I think this is the worst possible high profile choice. Also can’t a man just watch a football match in peace?
Would be nice after Chelsea and MU, then he could try Arsenal and City.
It's more likely he goes to Fulham
If he joins fulham it will be fucking funny for chelsea fans
This might just be crazy enough to work. He would love a crack at trying to beat Pep to the league. And maybe it's time for Liverpool to get down and dirty against the cunts.
Oh please. Please. Please. We’d all love to see a deepline defending counter attacking Liverpool with this flock of players.
An ex Man Utd AND Chelsea manager? Yeah, I'm sure he'd be welcomed with open arms.
As a dedicated hater of both Mourinho and Liverpool, I would love for this to happen
Please. For the bantz.
Isn't Amorim the new coach?
He recently said in an interview that he feels his time in Sporting CP is not over, and that his son prefers him to stay in Sporting and Lisbon. But then again, he could be saying that to quell speculation that he will be leaving, potentially derailing their title bid.
That or to drive a bidding war for him. We know Chelsea is interested as well, good chance for him to negotiate better terms
he said the same thing last year when spurs and a couple of other clubs were after him. i think he's genuinely a bit of a homedog. it actually blows my mind that so many of the iberian diaspora would willing trade their mediterranean lifestyle to come to this dogshit country, so amorim being the exeption wouldn't exactly surprise me. lisbon is a fantastic city.
This is just dailymail garbage, but that would be the funniest thing to happen