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But he built that team with "rejects" from other clubs that he went on to beat on his way to glory and it was an ageing squad near its end that barely made it out of their group in previous years. And we're not talking about run of the mill CL teams but GIANTS with the best players at the time. Sneijder, Milito etc he turned them into superhumans. Lucio was sold by Bayern for being too old and not good enough.People need to stop saying that his Inter Milan team wasn't a great team, that was probably the most "Mourinho team" Jose ever created...pretty much every player was a ruthless ****house on the field
Sneijder, Eto'o, Cambassio, Lucio, Zanetti, Samuel, Milito, Cesar, Stankovic, etc...some absolute quality in that side, was one of the best teams in the world in 2010...nobody saw his Porto win coming though, fair play to him there.
Agree that it's a shame Big Wengz didn't win the Champions League, but that's been done to death...both at their best were top managers, Mourinho is just a **** as a person...then, now and forever.
Not really. He picked those players and bought them in as well as moulded them into top quality players himself. You can't deny all that.Nonsense. He arrived at Porto and got a huge injection of capital two years running. Then only ever been at one of the wealthiest squads in their respective countries Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Chelsea again, Manchester United.
All this while Wenger was wallowing around with a squad in the bottom half of the EPL for spend. After 2004 the highest spend position Wenger ever achieved was 5th. And he got top 4 for 20 years straight, a miracle worker.
Mourinho now has a team spending 6th in the League and as you'll see he'll get absolutely nowhere. And you know it.
What Wenger did was great but its not like something all that far off of Moyes.
Investment? Mourinho was the best manager in the world and he backed that investment with results without fail most of the time. Wenger got investment and we're still stuck with his mess that's taking an age to clear out while prior to that he did get investment with which he barely managed to put together a decent defense but always made mind boggling decisions and left holes consistently that wouldn't have needed huge investment anyway. Wenger had better team he built that was better than Inter's and Porto's but couldn't get them to win a league. Wenger also pretty much went down the table as soon as other top managers came to the league. Spending is only part of the equation.