I'm not saying we are poor. However we don't spend big on players. Bentley, Modric and Bent all cost around £15million and are our biggest signings. Man Utd paid £30 for Veron, Rio and Rooney before the Arabs of Man City and Roman of Chelsea came along. Our wage budget compared to our rivals (Utd, City, Chelsea, Arsenal & Liverpool) is tiny.
I don't think that the money is the entire point, HIAG. Whilst money would be important, and I 'm sure he would want some guarantees in that direction. The point is, Mourinho is a control freak. Levy runs our club with an iron grip and I don't see any way Jose would be granted the level of control he would want. He's fallen out with most of the owners and chairman he's worked for. I think the same would happen with us. Some of the other comments about Mourinho I just find baffling. The guy's record speaks for itself. He has made a success of virtually every club he has been at. To just dismiss his achievements as all being down to money, is missing the mark by a long way, IMO.
I don't know whether or not that is correct, NSS. But even allowing for it to be true, again, The Special One is going to quickly run out of clubs, if his attitude were to remain the same. Will he buckle down, or will he simply retire from football? I know that received wisdom is that he's being groomed as Fergie's successor, but I cannot believe that Jose would want the job, or the pressure to match-up to SAF that would come with it. Taking the United job immediately after SAF is going to be an impossible task, and I doubt that Jose is so stupid as to dare to ruin his career by attempting an impossible task. It would be so much easier for him to take a team like Spurs, that hasn't won the league title in 50 years, where there is absolutely no pressure to achieve anything great, and make us great once again. I agree, that he'll probably want assurances regarding spending, but (a) I suspect that Levy will give him what he wants, based on results, and (b) I am certain that Jose will be excited about coaching the squad we already have. As I say, I am firmly with those who believe that this will NOT happen. All I am seeking to do is to redress the imbalance caused by the nay-sayers, who think so little of our club that they cannot make any case, whatsoever, for Jose to take an interest.
Have been reading this with great interest,but everybody is talking about club football. What about the England job,that is a challenge JM has yet to commit to and he will get to pick the best England has to offer without having to play up to a meglomaniac owner. Thoughts?
If that happened and "Arry did skeddadle (sic) who would be considered? Maybe I've missed something but there doesn't seem to be any suitable candidates that would suit the Spurs way.
If Jose came in he is going to want big players, Do we have that money? if not he will get frustrated and leave. I can see it happening
Real fans are also making noises about him hopefully pissing off back to England... http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11835/7450319/Jose-unfazed-by-fan-unrest
After the debacle that was Domenech, the FFF won't be hiring another clearly mental coach anytime soon. Not least because Laurent Blanc is doing a good job.
That, actually, would be a huge surprise to me. Arsenal's board don't seem to give Wenger much money to make signings, hence his persistent cherry-picking of youth players that no one has ever heard of. If it's true that Jose would be frustrated at Spurs by Levy, he'd be driven mental by Arsenal's aging board of misers.
Mourinho's style of football would be a complete change of culture for Arsenal now, too. The fans would accept it in no time if it brought success, though.
Yes, I think the Gooners would be more accepting of Jose's style of management than we would. They loved Graham, whereas we didn't, for example.
They also love gobshite managers who concoct paranoid conspiracy theories rather than accepting they were well beaten by the better team, judging by the last 15 years...
Just can't see it happening. I could see him going to Man City if they don't win the league this year, and maybe even if they do. Man City and Mourinho are made for each other.
Given the death threats that forced Anders Frisk to retire after Mourinho gobbed off about him, Mourinho and Liverpool are also suited to each other...
Mourinho wouldnt come to Spurs, he only goes where there is pots of money to spend, cant see him being happy with Levys purse strings.
We were linked to him before he went to Chelsea. I'd say we dodged a bullet there, but we then went and brought in Santini...
