Completely 100% agree with all this mate fantastic points.Let's not forget, this Rose meeting was just after Watford away.
Where Tanganga played defensive LB against Sarr who a) 6'1 b) very fast and strong c) LEFT FOOTED.
So IF the manager wants his LB to just defend then surely a taller, faster, stronger, righted footed, and more defensive minded player was a justifiable choice?
JM made the decision from the get go that we were only playing one small attacking full back, owing to our imbalance in midfield. So to get back in Danny had to outperform Serge.
If he'd taken his head out of his ass long enough, he might have listened to the coach, understood why he was out and knuckled down to get back in.
His behaviour and reaction were symptomatic of a toxic and entitled attitude, and I think once he briefed against JM to the Sun he was done at Spurs and sad as that may be rightly so.
Judging the sunderland doc and others I think that's a widely held opinion. January is not a good window, either you sign players who are being pushed out or you overpay. It's very much based on circumstances. Ideally one shouldn't be using January to sign players at all, it's a pretty terrible buying market. But sometimes you need to, and then it's just seeing what is possible.Yeah that was that bit that sent alarm bells off for me - probably a poor choice of words from him, but saying you can’t plan for it (as head of recruitment) is ridiculous!
Really interesting points mate, I kind of see what you mean. Perhaps it’s a little due to the translation to English as it’s obvs not his natural language but what behaviours do you think he makes that aren’t genuine?I don’t have a vendetta against Mourinho and I really want him to be a success but I just can’t buy into his management style.
To me, he comes across so fake. I understand what he is trying to achieve from everything he says, but it never comes across genuine to me. It comes across as him saying and acting exactly how he feels he needs to in order to provoke a response.
You can argue that makes him a good manager, which of course he has proven.
However, for me I would struggle to buy into it. I work best with people I feel are totally genuine and can get on an emotional level with. I think some players reactions show this. Some look at each other, some look uncomfortable and some almost cringe.
Agree. Was going fine until he lost his head a bit at the end. Seems like a quite unpredictable difficult character as we thought he could be.Just watched the Rose part of the documentary - don’t have one issue with what he said until he stood up at the end. Then he got silly.
Could just be just personality and mannerisms, I’m sure he enjoys it really and is good at it but I suppose in such an intense and competitive role it can be good to be a bit hard nosed tbh.Actually think Steve Hitchen comes across worst from those episodes.
Head of recruitment but spends the time moaning at how hard it is to compete with United etc and emphasising again how difficult it is to get transfers done. Can see why Levy likes him but for me he came across pretty miserable for a guy whose job isn't to work the numbers but to unearth talents.
I wasn’t a fan of when he took the p out of Sanchez about how he should have balls and his man.u team beat them minute one,
Nice I’m actually glad To hear others saw it in a more positive way than me and I get what you’re saying 100%, I suppose Jose likes his defenders to be hard as nails and intimate people not be nice guys as he keeps saying so perhaps even if it might have got under Davidson’s skin a bit with that comment mabye Longer term It will help towards changing the mentality of the players and club to being tougher.IMO, Mourinho was spot on. A defender like Sanchez should bully players from left to right. A good example is Koulibaly.
Sanchez is still young and he can develop into that. But clearly needs to be a big bully presence there on the pitch. He has all the tools to do that.
I don’t have a vendetta against Mourinho and I really want him to be a success but I just can’t buy into his management style.
To me, he comes across so fake. I understand what he is trying to achieve from everything he says, but it never comes across genuine to me. It comes across as him saying and acting exactly how he feels he needs to in order to provoke a response.
You can argue that makes him a good manager, which of course he has proven.
However, for me I would struggle to buy into it. I work best with people I feel are totally genuine and can get on an emotional level with. I think some players reactions show this. Some look at each other, some look uncomfortable and some almost cringe.
It's not the questions he asked, it was the way he asked them.I've not watched any of this, but I saw the 2 min Danny Rose clip earlier. He perhaps seems to have a little bit of a chip on his folder, but I would disagree strongly with whoever claims he was being disrespectful. He was perfectly within his rights to ask the questions he did IMO. At the same time, Mourinho is also correct with his response. Rose is entitled to think other players have been shit, but his doing so doesn't make that a fact.
It’s just small bits from a documentary but I really didn’t get a good vibe from Hitchen. Thought he came across so ‘poor me’ and moaning. Making it seem it’s impossible to find players who aren’t already being signed by other top clubs is a lie and slightly embarrassing to suggest. Hating the window when his whole job should be to have already prepared a plethora of options for the club to decide on, so there’s not much pressure on him.
Quite uninspiring if we’re aiming to unearth gems and quite frankly confirms my belief that our whole scouting system is really poorly run.