Alfonso wrote:Fully agree Jazz esp ur last sentence.
Back then they would be so hard to break down and if a team did get through Cech was unbeatable at times, then Duff & Robben used to murder teams down the wings, Drogba would hold things up and Lampard would bomb forward. This league had seen nothing like it, they were a defensive side who used to pick teams off with devastating effect. They had really battlers in that team and players who didn't give a shit what it took to win, a team that imo reflected his own image. The likes of Terry & Drogba loved being hated, made them stronger.
He has a very different team now, the mentality is different among these players and unlike then when he had players at their peak. This team is more of a project and he has to develop these players, not have ready made players like last time. I think as a great as a coach he is, if he wants to be regarded like Fergie (which is his ultimate ambition) he needs to build a team and dominate with them.
y va marquer wrote:
Mourinho didn't develop a siege mentality anywhere other than in different factions of the dressing room in his last season in Madrid.
Spanish press hated him and he couldn't cope.
He lost the dressing room that's why. Was trying to get the Spanish players to bad mouth the Barca lot but they weren't having it. He had a lot of friction with Ramos & Casillas. Only reason he even won La Liga imo was because Barca had a bad year compared to their usual standards in recent years. That Barca team is a freak of nature!
