Sicario2 - Tier 1 He also won a CL with Porto with minimal spending. Something Pep could never do.
I'll die on this hill but while Mourinho's achievements for Porto were great they were also overrated. They beat Lyon in the QF, an erratic Deportivo in the SF & Monaco in the final to win the CL. They couldn't beat R.Madrid home or away that season in the group stages and snuck past Man Utd. One of my biggest regrets is that game against Chelsea where after 60 mins our team basically ran out of gas, we would have walked that CL.
Maybe Pep couldn't do that but with money to spend Pep took his teams to levels Mourinho could never reach. Mourinho at Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid spent a fuck load of money. Pep has transformed how
Sicario2 - Tier 1 Ok now fault him winning the CL with Inter (the last time an Italian team won the competition).
It was an impressive achievement but Mourinho didn't exactly take over a shit Inter side. They had won the league three times on the trot, had an excellent squad but fair play he took them up a level. If that volcano hadn't erupted and Barca team didn't spent something like 15 hours travelling to face them I'm not sure they would have beaten them 3-1 but despite that it was a great performance and Inter were sensational that year.
