The_Brecht wrote:HIF wrote:The_Brecht wrote:Let the opponent dominate the game, absorb the pressure en hit them on the counter attack.
Mourinho is such a ******* tool, who gets far too much credit.
But he is winning.
Yes, he is.
Still, I wouldn't want him as a manager.
I don't like his cynical vision on football.
Loving this fume, Mourinho is living in Arsenal fans' heads rent free. I suppose Pound Shop Pep's strategy of banging 40 crosses into the box per game is enterprising football, then. It's not even like Arsenal have a big man up top to put it in the net or knock it down from those balls into the box. They're absolutely clueless.
I'll add that our "cynical" manager is helming a team that has scored 13 more goals than Arsenal already this season, has the best goal difference in the league, and smashed United 6-1 at Old Trafford on the front foot. People seem to have forgotten about that already. We won't win every game, it's not possible, but I feel like we're developing the right mentality to win football matches and it's showing already. City home, Chelsea away, Arsenal home. 0 goals conceded.
Mourinho arrived at a team that had its morale bottomed out after a CL final loss, a talisman like Eriksen wanting out, Vertonghen on his last legs, Kane being fed up with nothing left in the tank. Everything has transformed since he arrived. To give just one example, he's turned someone like Aurier, with his famously laissez-faire approach to defending, into a defensive workrate machine. The whole team is buying into the concept of defending doggedly as a group and being clinical and efficient in attack, even if it means sitting back for big chunks of games. We actually have a gameplan and so far it's working. That's why Mourinho deserves credit. He's taken the body that Pochettino built, and given it a spine.
A manager's job is to win football matches, they have no obligation to please anyone. And, by extension, ideology doesn't mean anything if you cannot win when it counts, as any Spurs fan knows. I'm 100% behind what Mourinho's doing, but then I've always been a fan of how he sets his teams up.