Can the 61-year-old Mourinho still coach the giants?
10 days before his first birthday after the year of the sixtieth year, Mourinho received the most heart-wrenching birthday present.
On the evening of January 16, the club officially announced that coach Jose Mourinho would leave immediately, ending the curse of two and a half years of coaching - "three years of Murinho", which unfortunately came true again.
Goodbye, madman.
In the two and a half seasons of the "Red Wolf", the "magic bird" who gradually bid farewell to the traffic and buried himself in entrepreneurship again, although he completed the three major European Cup majors with a European Cup championship, but the continued lack of improvement still made the American investors wield a butcher's knife.
After leaving the Real Madrid coach, Mu Shuai, who stumbled on the road to job hunting, went from Manchester United to Tottenham to Roma, and the market was bearish all the way. When he was proud, he once said that "he will only consider becoming the coach of the national team after the age of 60", has it really come to the day when he wants to say goodbye to his ideals and succumb to reality?
The magic is gone, only the demons remain
When he took over at Roma in the summer of 2021, Mourinho continued his tradition of shining wherever he went, struggling to stay in the European competition despite personnel shortages and injuries.
And when the European Cup was crowned after all the hardships, the Portuguese, who had long been accustomed to seeing the warmth and coldness of people, also broke the defense of the hardships along the way - after the semi-final elimination of Leicester City, the excited "madman" burst into tears on the spot, and the entire Olympic Stadium responded with continuous applause.
However, this is almost the only warmth of Mourinho's Roma career.
As the 60th coach in the history of the Roma team, Mourinho, who celebrated his 60th birthday in the "Eternal City", has actually been very bad: in the past two seasons, Roma only won the 6th place in Serie A, and it seems that he has not fallen behind, but in fact, he is 23 points and 27 points behind the top of the table respectively.
Since the defeat in the Europa League final last season, Mourinho's only "shortcut" to return to the Champions League has also been blocked, and the management has already moved to kill.
This season, Roma's performance is even worse - in the first 20 rounds of Serie A, Roma has 8 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses, accumulating 29 points and only ranking 9th in the standings. In the past five games in all competitions, the team has drawn 1, lost 3 and won only 1, including a wave of warm away three consecutive defeats.
Jose Mourinho is just four games shy of reaching 100 games in charge of Roma, and Mourinho has reason to regret it, but the club has clearly been more aggressive in his managerial performance.
A Y who advanced for the fifth time, Mourinho cried with joy.
Among the coaches who coached Roma in at least 50 league games in the three-point era, Mourinho has a record of 44 wins, 23 draws and 29 losses, averaging 1.61 points per game, the lowest since 1994.
Meanwhile, the Portuguese, who is still keen to argue with the referee, was called into the stands three times last season before being sent off for his first game after the New Year......
In other words, Mourinho was in the "ball watcher" and heard the news of his dismissal. For the "madman" who has missed press conferences many times this season, fighting controversial penalties with silence, this is a silent black humor.
Jose Mourinho has made a complete break with the Serie A referee.
Mu three years, old problem
In the last 4 coaching careers, Mourinho has ended dismally halfway through class, whether Jiang Lang is full of talent, or whether he is entrusted to a non-person, for any coach, this is obviously not a resume worth remembering.
In Serie A, where the overall environment is sluggish, radical operators are always outliers, and low entry and high exit are king. But the old cliché that Mourinho started with is nothing more than building an iron wall on the defensive end, and relying on the individual output of superstars to solve the battle on the offensive end.
However, at the moment, what Rome lacks most is stars. If it weren't for Dybala and Juventus' successful interception, the team's already dismal offensive end would have been even more unsightly.
But the injured Argentine has long passed his prime, only occasionally showing his grandeur, and rarely playing a full season in good health.
As for Lukaku, it looks even more bluffing, if there is still stock in the tank of "Warcraft", how can it be rejected by Inter and Juventus?
Jose Mourinho's Romelu Lukaku (left) is no longer as brave as he once was.
When the Saudi league waved the cheque book around the world, the Roma investors, who finally saw the opportunity to "cash out", hurriedly sold Ibanez, the core of the defensive team, without Mourinho's intervention, and Smalling, whose contract is about to expire, would also be let go......
This summer, Roma only spent 9.3 million euros on reinforcements, sold a full 10 people, and arbitraged 73 million euros. In a word, the top management has no long-term business plans at all, and they are more urgent than Mourinho, who is good at quick success.
Such a mix and match lineup with different thoughts from all over the world can play combat effectiveness in Serie A, which is a strange thing. While the big names are in name only, their own camp, which can still unite around Mu Shuai in the first two years, is also constantly divided and divided.
The young player Gyan and others, who were promoted by Mourinho, either left the team or were shelved after a short flash because they did not meet the tactical requirements. And the fans who once supported Mu Shuai also lost patience under the losing streak......
Next stop, Saudi Arabia?
'Jose Mourinho should come to Manchester United as sporting director or Chelsea as coach. ”
"Pochettino, do you dare to continue messing around now?"
Shortly after Mourinho's dismissal, the comments were made on social media. At the same time, Roma has begun to recall the famous De Rossi to take over the struggling parent team.
It is true that Mourinho himself never minds eating back grass, but the distance between him and the giants has long been getting farther and farther away.
In the football world where the eyeball economy is dominant, Mourinho's style of playing with buses and waiting for opportunities to fight back against stealing chickens is not only criticized by peers as "anti-football", but also destined to have no market at more levels.
After all, this simple and crude style of play requires players to sacrifice their personal data and performance, serve the game unconditionally, and be highly obedient to the manager, even submissive.
Unfortunately, the stark relationship between the manager and the players has changed in the last 10 years. More often than not, the coach is the one who needs to grovel - being able to mingle with the players and talk and laugh with the top management is the new benchmark for a coach.
But Mourinho never thought so, in the hearts of the "madman", there has always been an insurmountable red line between management, technical level and players, and this deep-rooted class concept is the root cause of his growing disconnection with the current football world.
Jose Mourinho has won all three major European cups.
Of course, when coaching Roma, Mourinho did not refuse to shoot short videos with his disciples, and even took the initiative to buy electronic products and limited-edition sneakers for his well-behaved subordinates, but this kind of "proximity to the people" actually went against his heart.
What Roma needs is not an old-school manager with a lot of personality, but a sounding board that can maintain stability during the transition period and breathe out of the top nostrils.
In a sense, this is also the role that Manchester United and Tottenham once wanted Mourinho to play, but Mourinho's arrogance did not allow it.
Considering 2024 is a real tournament year, it's only a matter of time before the manager rotates, and Mourinho doesn't have to worry about a job if he wants it – but the question is, who can accept Mourinho's own way?
Perhaps, Saudi Arabia, which is not bad for money and does not think much about the record, is the most ideal destination for Mu Shuai. After turning down an offer from Riyadh Victory this summer, the Middle East league, once despised by the "madman", may be a place he has to consider.
After all, Mancini, who is also full of personality, has taken over the Saudi team one step ahead - standing to earn money, not chilling.
(Supine Push-ups/Yang Jian)
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