I think this whole perception of a weakened team is mourinho's mind game. if he loses, they lost cause its a weak team.. if they win or draw... jose is a genius for getting a result.
His mind games are getting a bit tiresome, I don't know how people still fall for it every day. He's always trying to take the pressure off his team, be it blaming officials (after the game against Sunderland, he hinted at some kind of conspiracy to favor us, an hilarious notion; at Real Madrid, that's all he would talk about every time he played Barcelona), saying they are not in the title race, and so on. He is the master of diverting attention to what really matters; and he is ready to sink very low for it. Some will say he's destroying his team's confidence, but he knows what he's doing. He will say something very different in the dressing room, or he'll do it if he thinks they need a kick up the arse. At Porto, he often changed the formation to 4-4-2 because he believed it was less comfortable to play with than a 4-3-3, so the players would not be able to become complacent. That's the kind of manager he is. I admire his intelligence, but not his Machiavellian attitude; for me, the ends do not justify the means.
Anyway, his tactics will fail again against us, like they've failed before in his biggest games against Liverpool FC.
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