What is a measure of decline in a coach’s career? Speaking of Jose Mourinho, who always and everywhere in the forefront put titles, assessing both himself and others, should start with the results. And this is what the career of the Portuguese, which was previously very fashionable to magnify no other than “special”, has not been impressive in recent years. Judge for yourself: his last championship at one of the national leagues, where he was lucky to work, Jose took up more than ten years ago, winning the English Premier League of the 2014/15 season with Chelsea.
Perhaps the results and statistics in the Champions League-the most prestigious club tournament of the European continent-may be more important for assessing the success of the modern top trainer. And here Mourinho has nothing to boast: the last team he brought to the group (currently the general) stage of the tournament is Manchester United. It is about the 2018/19 season, during which, and more precisely, in December, the Portuguese was resigned.
Thus, a careful reader also remembers Tottenham, with whom Mourinho also appeared in the Champions League already in the 2019/20 season, but then “special” came to the ranks of “Spurs” in the course of the competitive process, in mid-November 2019, and had nothing to do with the felt of the Konsta team in the group of London.
After two and a half years of work in Roma, nor for the season with a small in Fenerbahche – Mourinho could not return to the main champions League. With the Roman team, the Portuguese twice in a row finished sixth in Italian series A, which deprived fans of “Wolves” even the hope of returning to the elite club tournament of the old continent. And in Fenerbahche … According to the results of last season, Mourinho brought “yellow canaries” to the silver medals in the national championship, where it is extremely difficult for everyone to impose competition “Galatasari”, but then … further there was a qualification, which was placed very much.
He started Fenerbahche with the third round against the games against Figenord. In the first game in Rotterdam, “yellow canaries” gave way to the opponent (1: 2), but at home, on the frantic joy of their fans, managed to take a convincing revenge (5: 2), having gone into the playoffs of the selection round. There “Fenerbakhche”, the will of the lot, was already waiting for “Benfica”, whose defense of which headed by Ukrainian goalkeeper Anatoly Turbin could not – 0: 0, 0: 1… 1… 1…
In fact, Mourinho repeated his last year’s result when he just came to Fenerbachce, and in the qualification of the Champions League was able to go through the second round, overcoming Lugano (4: 3, 2: 1), but then stumbled on the next rival-French Lilly (1: 2, 1:
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Jose Mourinho leaves Istanbul It is logical that the boss “Fenerbahche” was not staged by the Champions League. The Portuguese may have been lucky to avoid such an unenviable fate for the second year in a row and stay at the head of “yellow canaries”, but in the last months, which the press wrote about the “special” has had an extremely tense relationship with the management of the Istanbul Club.
In particular, Mourinho showed dissatisfaction with the quality of “Fenerbahche” in the transfer market. The Portuguese mentor very much wanted to see two football players among his wards-the Ukrainian goalkeeper of Madrid “Real Madrid” Andrei Lunin and the Spanish midfielder “Parisy Saint-Germain” Marco Asensio. But to agree on the transfer of neither the first or the second into the Fenerbahche it was not possible that Mourinho, in fact, called the cause of the failure in the playoffs of the Champions League qualification.
“I do not think that efforts have been made to make these transfers. If the Champions League was the main purpose of our club, I think something would happen to new acquisitions even before the matches against Figenord and Benfiki, – said Mourinho after Fiasco from Lisbonians, and soon was sent.
However, the ten -year absence of championship titles and more than five years without games in the Champions League Net, do not interfere with the “special” to continue to use their outstanding authority in coaching. It is sufficient to note that Mourinho’s release cost the FerberBakhche boss of 15 million euros – such compensation had to pay “yellow canary” for the opportunity to get rid of the Portuguese, which became toxic.
Turkish colleagues have already estimated that for his coaching career, Jose Mourinho was only on compensatory payments for dismissal from his former places of work “burned” a lot of money, and more precisely, 115 million euros!
Where does Fenerbahche come from the money that it is so easy to part with Mourinho by paying him a fully penalty for his release? Everything is quite simple here, and in principle, we recently talked on the pages of Sport.ua in the aspect of the transition of Nigerian forward Victor Osimhen with “Napoli” in “Galatasarai” – be sure to read …
The most important thing is that Jose Mourinho seems to have exhausted in the coaching craft up to her 62 years. Football no longer stir “special”, does not make him invent something new and to some extent even revolutionary. Everything came to the banal need to do craft, though … Is it already a need, given the amount of earned and received in previous places of work?
Be that as it may, there is only one thing to assume: no more opportunities and/or the ability to be “special” in football in the aspect of sports results, Jose Mourinho has relied on the ability to earn and get as much money from mentoring. And this is still successful in Portuguese than in his best years in Chelsea, Reality or Manchester United. And if this assumption is correct, then do not be surprised, if in a couple of months we see Mourinho somewhere in Saudi Arabia – there they pay well, and the penalty when released is ready to give out such that in Europe, probably not to find …
Source: Sport.ua