That would be extremely short sighted to think half a season of doing poorly would equate to a team of Man Utd's stature being no longer rivals.
That is not true. His first season with Barcelona and Munich were his best. Only AZ took time, but even then, he improved their position first season. Ajax (his first ever management job) he didn't win the league first season but did win the Uefa cup and finished the same place as his predecessor.
I don't think you can be worried beyond 1 season. Also Mata clearly wasn't in their plans
You mean 1/2 a season and Jose is smarter than that, he will know they will be rivaling them sooner rather than later. Mata wasn't in their plans but neither is Lukaku.
agree that the luiz transfer is very suspicius and i can understand how this helps the chavs. just cant understand how a setup like this can be made mutually beneficial. Iirc ffp looks at a clubs finances over three seasons. the luiz deal gives Chelsea a temporary respite but just makes PSG even more fuckedmorning mate, sorry, went to bed early last night
as soon as luiz went for stupid money my tin foil hat came out. We all know how both the chavs and psg have destroyed the transfer market but are still attempting to at least publicly be seen to be complying with ffp. By entering into a cartel with each other, they can effectively sell/buy players to/from each other at massively inflated prices and give both clubs a cash boost that they may not have got if the player in question had gone elsewhere. for me this will be confirmed if between now and January we see a current psg player move to the chavs for what appears to be a significant market mark-up.
as said, probably me and my tin-foil hat but I smell a rat.
....after the 7-1 trashing Luiz's stock is worth sweet f*ck all in the real sense. He's a 10m quid defender at this point. Ah Jose Mourinho....you are a smart one arent you lad!
