couldn't survive the "three years of Mu", Mu Shuai got out of class again, but this obviously did not hinder his greatness and legend......
Smalling:
I was with him at Manchester United and then I went to Rome and he came. After working together for a long time, we have experienced ups and downs, disagreements, and all kinds of things together. But he's a natural winner and attention to detail, which is what I learned from him. Roma haven't won a trophy for many years, we brought the trophy back here and now we aim for even more success. He's won titles at every club he's coached (basically) and it's easy to see why, because he wants to win, and that's the most important thing.
Abraham:
Jose Mourinho is a legend, and if I retire and become a coach in the future, I want to be a coach like him. He's got a personality, he's passionate, and I love his style. He's what everyone often calls the real big guy, he's a leader. He speaks, you just listen. He's very good at managing people, and he's one of the best people in the world in this regard. He knows how to spur you on, how to provoke him. No matter how good you are, he will force you to do better. He is never satisfied, he always makes you do your best.
Manuel Pellegrini:
He is a coach who has written the history of football, changed the sport, and is still doing his best to win, which is what he instills in us every day. He's fantastic. In the year and a half under Jose Mourinho, I feel like we're not the same as before. He will contag emotions to you and let you release them on the pitch. I am honored and proud to work with him.
Demba Ba:
Sometimes, you want to bang his head against the wall, but when it's time to leave, you think, 'He's probably one of the best coaches of all time.'" 'It's incredible. He can control other people's emotions and make you do what he wants.
Ricardo Carvalho:
I'm still very happy after spending so much time with him, and he's helped me get a lot of balls over the years. He wants the team to improve every game, and he's not a man who doesn't accept defeat, which we players know very well and he didn't look good for the week after the loss. That's why we're trying our best to play the game well, to win more games and get less scolding! It's also normal, we players also want to win every game, and we can't get through it day by day when we lose.
We've been working together for eight and a half years, and there have been happy times and bad times. He likes to solve problems in his own way and is very straightforward, which I appreciate. When he wins, he gets along very well, but when he loses, it's different. In the first few years, when he spoke to us, no one thought he was targeting anyone, deliberately belittling or humiliating anyone in front of the whole team. We all have a lot of respect for him and accept his way of doing things. We know he's a very honest guy and he wants to lead the team to win. We all understand him and that's a big reason why we've been able to achieve results in those years.
Bosingwa:
The Mu Dao I know is not the image in the media. In 2004, he was still young, but he was super nice, and he was always joking with the players. He's a good coach, he's so different. We take Porto's double-decker buses to run away from all over the country, and the second floor is the players' area, and the coach can't go on casually, but only with the permission of captain Jorge Costa. When we came back from the game, we played cards and drank beer on the way, and Director Mu was the first coach to come up to the second floor to play.
Makelele:
I love being a coach...... I have a good relationship with the players because I'm a straight guy and I tell you what they say and what they don't do well. Jose Mourinho is the same character, so I like him too. He's a winner, he doesn't play false, you can talk to him if you have something, and he will help you distinguish between right and wrong. It's a very important ability, and of course, it depends on the players you have, because some players are more capable. Sometimes, you have to pay attention to the way you speak, and you have to score clearly in the situation, so that you don't feel like you're superior.
Essien:
I met Mourinho on the pitch, but he means so much more to me than football. I know him very well, I am just like my grandfather, for me, he is very special and will always be in my heart. He taught me a lot of good things and helped me grow into a better person. Most people don't know him as well as I do, but you just have to ask those teammates of Mu Yiyi to know how important he was to our growth back then.
He went with me to my hometown (Accra) to see where I grew up and get to know me better. Other coaches are generally only concerned with the results of the game, but Mu is concerned about how we manage our resources, how we look at life, and what football can bring us. But I don't want him to go to Tottenham, it's an enemy camp!
Joe Cole:
Mourinho and I have a standard 'football mentor-apprentice' relationship, which is normal...... We have a lot of arguments sometimes, but I think we have to argue a lot now, and the coaches and players have to argue. You see, now, everyone doesn't talk much, it's just stuffy messages, and some players don't dare to talk to the coach at all. I often go to Director Mu's office to ask him questions, and if I have anything I can't figure out, I can go to him at any time. We also joke that our relationship is very normal.
It's the same as when a jockey rides a horse, the jockey knows when to whip twice to get the horse to run faster, and when not to whip it. It's the art of management, some horses don't want to be whipped, and some horses just don't have a whip.
He thinks carefully about everything he does, and doesn't do it on the spur of the moment. One time I scored a winning goal against Liverpool and he was still in front of a lot of people [criticizing me], I couldn't figure it out, but now that I think about it, he was right. I've always had that mentality of "I'm just going to show you", and some players may be low-key, but I just want to show him that I can do what he wants.
Cesar:
He's very simple, he just doesn't like to lose. He made every player believe that he was the best in the world, and so did I. He told me: "Julio, you are the best goalkeeper in the world because you are the goalkeeper in my team. "I listened to it and went on the pitch and acted like Superman. He's also super tactical, he's also a team leader, he can get everyone to work together, and our whole team supports him.
After the second leg of the 2010 Champions League semi-finals, Jose Mourinho came to me and said that my save on Messi was the best save he had ever made, and it was the most important save of my life.
(Mourinho ran wild in the stadium after the game) everyone misunderstood him, they all thought that Mu Dao was celebrating, showing off his power at Camp Nou, but in fact he wanted to run to our fans. Valdés didn't figure out the situation, and he was very upset. Director Mu was a very passionate person, and like a child, he was so happy that he got carried away at that time. He is very real, and when he has emotions, he will vent them all, and he is so real.
Little Wright
I don't think it's that he's too the players, it's that football is different now. When I played under him, no one was bigger than the club, but now the status of the players is getting higher and higher, and there are players who have a lot of say and can get the coach out of class.
He didn't have to worry about that at Chelsea, everyone wanted to play well for the club and we respected him and wanted to win. Director Mu is really powerful, always one step ahead, and he is connected to interviews. If you look at what he said to reporters before, he seems to know what others will ask and has been prepared for a long time.