Where is mourinho going after madrid

With the players that Mourinho has signalled intent for, and with the players he will have at the club, it would seem that he may deviate back to the formation that served him so well at Chelsea and leave his loose in Italy. Meaning that the four positions Mourinho has most worries about are the two full-back berths, central midfield, and the left attacking midfield position.

He has moved to distance himself from the rumours linking Angel De Maria's move to Madrid from Benfica, citing that the fee would be just too high for a player who has yet to prove himself at the highest level, although that may change after the World Cup. Perhaps one of the biggest questions awaiting Mourinho at Real Madrid is can both he and Ronaldo get along? Both are born winners and if anything, Ronaldo's game has moved on a gear from when he was at Manchester United. Not that Madrid have brought him along or anything but tactically, technically, and physically, the former World Player of the Year has simply matured as a player.

The two Portuguese nationals had a spat some years ago when Mourinho accused Ronaldo of being self-centered on the football pitch forcing the then-Manchester United player to hit back with comments of his own.

Since then they have reconciled and recognise that each is a winner on different terms, but they do have a healthy respect for each other. Ronaldo will be a key component for Jose and his game should move on another level again.

Winning managers before him have paid the price for what the Madristas deemed as defensive football, namely Vicente Del Bosque and Fabio Capello. Madrid sacked him only two days after winning the title in for playing unattractive football Capello was with Madrid twice as a manager.

He then returned in to a Madrid team that were going through one of the longest spells without a trophy in the clubs history. Nothing had gone right for Los Blancos since Del Bosque's sacking in and Capello was seen as the right man to right the flagging ship. He duly delivered on that promise on the final day of the season to secure Madrid their 30th La Liga title, but was sacked in mid June The reason being his defensive style of play.

Anyone who has watched Jose Mourinho's teams over his year management career knows that his teams are efficient rather than attractive. His time at Porto saw the Poruguese giants play a rather defensive game on their way to the Champions League title in In fairness to Mourinho and Porto, they did not have the same resources as some of the teams they knocked out, namely Manchester United, Lyon, Deportivo La Coruna, and Monaco in the Final.

Between and Chelsea were one of the highest spending teams in the world and they enjoyed great success, but they never played the most attractive football. They played efficient, tactical, winning football that kept the Blues fans and players extremely happy, but questions were raised about Mourinho's philosophy on the game. When he moved to Inter Milan in , it seemed a match made in heaven.

A seemingly defensive coach and an Italian team Inter had just won three Scudetto's under Roberto Mancini and he was sacked by the club to make room for Jose. Mourinho was also joining a select group of Ernst Happel and Ottmar Hitzfeld as the only three managers to win the Champions League with two different clubs. This was also achieved using withdrawn tactics.

On the way to the Final, Inter Milan set a new record as the first team to win the coveted trophy with a negative possession rate of just 43 percent. Meaning that for the vast majority of the Nerrazzurri's route to the final they did their best work without the ball. His last and only home league defeat came when Porto were defeated 3—2 by Beira Mar on 23 February Can the leopard change his spots and play the expansive football craved by the Madristas?

All he had to do was tap the reset button on his three-year doomsday stopwatch. And it worked. It always worked. A dozen trophies in eight years! Then Real Madrid happened. And after that … well, the years went by at the same rate, the trophies not so much. Two and a half seasons back at Chelsea brought another Premier League title and one League Cup. Not quite two seasons at Tottenham brought arguably the highest honor of all—me triple-captaining Harry Kane in Fantasy Premier League this week—and the one Carabao Cup final, but no actual first-place finishes in a footballing competition.

To be clear, these are still phenomenal returns! Mourinho remains a world-class manager. Pre-Madrid: multiple trophies per year, with the balance tilted toward the top-shelf stuff like Champions League titles and league championships.

Winning the Europa League is still really good. Increasingly, his compulsive sniping seems to be throwing Mourinho himself, not his players or opponents, off-balance. Increasingly, he seems to be committing the cardinal error for any troll: He lets his targets get under his skin. The time in Madrid is the line separating the early, all-conquering, winking-prankster version of Mourinho from the later, only occasionally conquering, self-sabotaging version that followed.

Frankenstein and the mob have agreed that it would be in the best interest of both parties for Frankenstein to step away from his role at the castle.

In my opinion, though, the big shift occurred well before I think Mourinho was one manager going into those matches and a different one coming out the other side. And I think so even though Real won La Liga the following season.

To secure his release from Inter, Madrid had to come up with a record compensation package. There was a sense that this move, after years of Madrid coming up second to the Messi-Xavi-Guardiola nuclear fleet in Catalonia, was ushering in the next phase of European soccer history.

Madrid had Cristiano Ronaldo, and it was already clear in that Ronaldo and Messi would be competing for the highest conceivable stakes within the game.

If Mourinho could lead Ronaldo and his extremely expensive supporting cast through Barcelona and its squad of homegrown artist-geniuses, that would be the making of one kind of soccer history. Oh, and did I mention that Mourinho had been an assistant coach at Barcelona earlier in his career? While Pep Guardiola was there as a star player? However, the team's struggles at the beginning of the , falling to Lazio and Juventus , proved that Roma still have work to do to get back into Champions League soccer.

And Mourinho looks interested in landing a Real Madrid player come January. Jose Mourinho isn't taking his new challenge at the Italian capital lightly as he wants to build a competitive side that can get back to European prominence.

The year-old playmaker could provide Roma the creativity they need in the middle of the park, with the Portuguese manager reportedly seeing in him a great target to boost his starting lineup.