JOSE MOURINHO: THE WICKED ONE!!!!

The Callous One

Some call him genius, Some call him arrogant, Some call him an egotistic man with an undying thirst to always gain attention. Jose Mourinho famously self-styled himself the ‘special one’ when he arrived at Chelsea from Porto and after probably deciding he needed a change of name, he tagged himself the’ only one’. For me he is just a man he talks too much and is not as good a coach as he appears to be.

Klopp: Outwitted Mourinho

Mourinho is no doubt a petty and callous man. The rest of his irritating traits all unfolded in his third season at Madrid which made me convinced Johan Cruyff isn’t going senile. He executed the worst possible start to a Madrid season and made all sorts of lame excuses. His primary target which was the Champions League he barely scraped through the group stage behind a brilliant Borussia Dortmund who deservedly finished first in the group and could have beaten Madrid home and away. All this while he had picked fights Sergio Ramos, Alberto Toril the Madrid youth coach and Iker Casillas albeit it being rumours at the time.

Casillas: Victim of Mourinho's tyranny

Mourinho benched Casillas in a league game against Malaga claiming Saint Iker had lost form and needed competition. Antonio Adan was installed as the new No 1 amid unconvincing displays and numerous errors. Casilllas managed to get his spot back but got injured almost immediately. Mourinho sensing an opportunity to punish Spain’s most loved figure before he left the capital brought in Diego Lopez the former Madrid youth keeper from Sevilla. No doubt the man proved himself but even when Casillas got back from injury, Mourinho didn’t give him a single second of playing time. It was clearly personal.


Mourinho had shown his knack for benching players for reasons that had nothing to do with form. Ramos was the first to experience the tyranny of Mourinho benching him against Man City for showing support to Mesut Ozil who was roundly criticized by the Portuguese. No doubt he is a great motivator but having not played soccer at the highest level, his lack of a football philosophy is apparent for all to see. He doesn’t set up teams for the long haul but rather choosing to hurriedly assemble a defensive minded and counter attacking team with no idea how to establish a clear pattern.

Mourinho throwing a tantrum

That’s why his former teams suffered so badly having set them up with a fire brigade approach philosophy and playing the role of psychologist and not a coach. When things don’t go his way, he blames the officials, the opposition players and his players as well. He resorts to crude and ugly tactics when he is clearly short of ideas and when that doesn’t work; he pokes people in the eye and apologizes a year later.

A coward at heart, he absolutely refuses to give youth team players a chance and would rather line up his first eleven for every single game rather than give youngsters a chance. His fear of failure blinds him to the reality that young players have something to offer and he has been directly responsible for the stagnated growth of some promising players at clubs he has managed.

Johnson never stood a chance with Mourinho

Van Ginkel made a terrible mistake

In his first stint at Chelsea, he absolutely refused to see the potential in Glen Johnson and the Liverpool full back has grown to become one of the finest right backs in the world. At Madrid where the youth team possesses so much talent, Mourinho came up with silly excuses why he couldn’t use them and players such as Alvaro Morata, Nacho Fernandez, and Jese Rodriguez were all frustrated due to lack of first team action. He also engineered the departures of Sergio Canales, Daniel Carvajal, Rodrigo, Joselu and many others who are all brilliant footballers but with Mourinho’s phobia against young players, they never stood a chance.

The Hypocritical one

Arrogant and selfish, he only cares about himself. He was shedding tears when he left Inter Milan saying he was so distraught to leave his beloved players. Beloved players indeed having flown separately from the entire team that just won the champions league. What coach does that? Jose Mourinho. This is a man who brags at any chance to tell the world he has won two champions league and continuously refers to his old feats at his former clubs and generally felt he was doing Madrid a favour by coaching them. What a man!!!

The Angry One

He basically fought with everyone at Madrid and he hated the press as much as they hated him. A number of press conferences were handled by Aitor Karanka and it was clear Mourinho was avoiding the press which he clearly didn’t get along with.

During his first stint at Chelsea he talked and talked and talked all day long and the English press were clearly intrigued. Not so much the Spanish press who saw right through him and clearly couldn’t wait for him to leave Spain. Using the Clasicos as a smokescreen, he tried to engineer enmity within the Spanish camp by insisting Madrid players shouldn’t be friends with Barcelona players.

Amigos nearly torn apart

He was clearly referring to Casilllas and Xavi who enjoyed a solid friendship but was nearly torn apart by the Portuguese. Towards the end of a miserable three year stay with Madrid in which he only won three trophies, he started taking swipes at everybody and anybody he felt like. While he continued to torture Iker Casillas, he turned his attention to Pepe who had shown support to Casillas. Needless to say the defender was punished as he was banished from the team and was mocked by Mourinho.


The remainder of his press conferences was used to highlight his small successes at the Bernabeu continuously referring to the petty fact that he was the one who led Madrid out of the round of sixteen for the first time in 7 years in the Champions League. Firstly that’s beside the point and secondly that was not what Madrid hired him for and for a man who is so self-assured and obnoxious, a Champions League final in three years would not have been out of place considering the resources at his disposal.

A couple of days later it was announced that Madrid and Mourinho had parted ways after a torrid 3 year reign and one could hear the sigh of relief around Spain.

The Return of the 'WICKED ONE'

Now back at Chelsea, I wish him the best. I must say I respect the man as a great motivator and someone who is brilliant at man managing. A combination of those two skills has brought him considerable successes wherever he goes. But Chelsea shouldn’t expect a reformed Mourinho who should have matured over the years.


They should expect a power hungry, fame seeking and completely selfish man who is after personal success and could care less about the long term future of the club. That’s the Jose Mourinho I know.