He is a genius in what he does but the thing is, for me, the ends do not justify the means.
I've read books about him and his methods - it's really incredible how he thinks in all the little details, which includes the nonsense he speaks to the media.
There's no denial about his quality. But I can list what I dislike about him.
1. Respect. He has showed us disrespect more than once - to the football club and the fans. No matter how good a man is at what he does, there are more important things than simply winning.
Most of the time I only find funny all the bullshit he says but he's crossed the line too many times and it's disgraceful. The other day he said 'he would never manage Mallorca', showing a lot of disrespect for the club and its fans, only because he wanted to show himself as a superior manager than his predecessor. The truth is, he did that cause pressure is getting to him - Pellegrino (currently managing Mallorca) achieved more points with Real Madrid than he has so far.
2. Individualism. He's only interested in himself. He wants to win trophies in all the major European leagues because he's 100% self centered and loves his personal records. He's always looking at the best opportunities to make his career look better, with no regard to the club he is in charge of, or their fans. He'll rapidly move on if it's for his best interests, to look greater. It might be ok to a lot of people but not for me.
Rafa Benitez stayed with us through difficult times, damaged his own reputation in this process, but in the end he was key to open our eyes against the Yankees and the bankruptcy our club was reading to; if the LFC manager was José Mourinho, he would of have left immediately and would simply not care about our future. In fact, he would probably want us to do worse after he left, so he could point out we were only good because of him. He did that with Chelsea, saying he was winning trophies with Inter but Chelsea couldn't win without him - simply ignoring the fact his successor Avram Grant would of have won the league if it wasn't for his terrible start in his last season at Chelsea, and in only months in charge managed to take the club to a UCL final, something Mourinho was appointed to but never did (Abramovich always made it clear the UCL was his major goal). Little after he said that, Ancelotti won the league in his first season at Chelsea, too.
Which raises a few questions to the debate: what's the need for this kind of criticism, in the first place? Why not simply show respect to his successors, instead of seeing them as their enemies? His 'us vs the world' mentality is as fake as the Stamford Bridge atmosphere. His real mentality is 'me vs the world'; once he has left the club, he shows it. If Chelsea didn't win anything at all after he left, he would probably be thrilled, so he could be the one and only to make them successful, the 'special one'.
Personal marketing is the expression.
That's not the Liverpool way I've always admired.
3. Negativity. Once Xavi said, Mourinho is a great manager, a winner, but he didn't bring anything new to the game, and that's why, according to him, Guardiola will be more remembered - like Sachi, or Cruyff are. He won the UCL with Inter but what people talked about was how good Barcelona was playing. True greatness is bigger than merely trophies, and I like to believe in that. Fabio Cappello is a lot more successful than Arrigo Sachi, but I know which Milan side I prefer.
My list could go on and on, but I think that's enough for now.
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