It's an interesting theory, and fair enough. That said, were Mourinho to leave Madrid in the Summer (I know he's said he won't) then I would be surprised if he had to wait two seasons to get another job he fancied. Similarly the Gus Hiddinks, Pep Guardiolas, Carlo Ancellotti's, Fabio Capello's, Didier Deschamps etc etc. Top managers tend to walk into top jobs, I'd even be surprised if Villa-Boas isn't working somewhere else pretty soon.
As for Mournho and his spending, it's an interesting point you make but not one based much around any facts as I understand them. Without wanting to derail the thread overly, Mourinho spent very little at Porto where he won the Champions League, heavily at Chelsea where he won a lot, little at Inter where he won the Champions League and has spent heavily at Madrid in trying to catch Barcelona. I guess we'll never know if we would have swept the board if Rafa had had "Mourniho's dough at Chelsea", and it seems pointless to me to speculate. Many other many managers have recently had more money than Mourinho had whilst managing Man City and haven't been successful so it's clearly not as easy as it looks, but I wouldn't say for a second that Rafa wouldn't have been equally as successful, simply because nobody knows for sure.
Mick, Mourinho didn't spend little at Inter Milan. In one transfer window they got Milito, Eto, Lucio, Schneijder and Motta - 1 WINDOW. Moratti was so desperate to win the CL he went all out, albeit aided by the phenomenal price they got for Ibrahimovic. Mourinho also spent the most out of any domestic team at Porto. He won the CL by beating United in the Quarters aided by the incredible F**k up by tim Howard at the death, he beat Deportivo in the Semis and hello Monaco in the final... brilliant. Oh and Monaco were completely depleted.
Rafa had been burnt by H&G and was not going to get burnt again by Moratti.
Look in my opinion there is no finer manager in Europe especially if your not loaded. However I believe Kenny will be very succesful if backed and given time because he is very experienced very clever and has our best interests at heart .. he is a legend
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