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As a Chelsea fan, I have come to the conclusion that yes he is. Considering the pool of talent he had the money he could spend and the respect the players had in him, he failed as a manager and thoroughly underachieved.
He did win two Premiership titles, two Carling Cups and an FA Cup, but that is nothing special if you are the "Special One". What everybody was expecting was the Champions League which he failed to deliver and he never made Chelsea into a European force to be reckoned with.
Some of his signing were nothing special and the team that won the league in 2005 was nearly all Ranieri's team that would have inevitably won the league that year without Mourinho. In my opinion Jose was a lucky manager as he turned up at the right time when United and Arsenal were in transition and Chelsea were the best, so any manager could have eased Chelsea to the league.
When he was here, did we need all the arrogance and the "nothing is my fault" face and the failure to accept that he might not have been right - NO. Did it get very tiring after he made his 88th comment about the Luis Garcia "ghost goal" - YES. He didn't manage to say that his formation and selection was wrong, but that would have been too human.
Look at Avram Grant now, his record is nearly identical to Mourinho's even though he has had by far the worse injury crisis the club has ever seen. From the start up until now at some point he has missed Cech, Cudicini, Terry, Lampard, Makelele, Ballack, Essien, Mikel, Malouda, Drogba, Shevchenko all for sustained periods of time. Did he complain, did he moan - NO. He just kept winning games with a weaker team against better opposition.
But he did win two titles and Avram Grant will struggle to do that this year or the year after, maybe I am doing Jose an injustice. I still think he is a good manager but not as good as he thinks he is and maybe the media are beginning to relaize this and think they may have been too generous with their praise of him.
To conclude, Mourinho came to Chelsea at a time were winning the league was an inevitability, he never won the Champions League which all Chelsea fans have craved and Avram Grant is doing a better job without all the gimmicks of Mourinho.
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Before the year 2004, Jose Mourinho was a successful but relatively unknown coach. However, two events contrived to bring the young manager into the limelight. First, he won the Champion's League trophy with his the club F.C. Porto and then, he was appointed Manager of Chelsea Football Club. These two events, coming in quick succession, transformed the man from a position of relative obscurity in Portugal to the spot light of the lucrative English Premier league.
As a football Manager, is Mourinho an overrated individual? My answer is an unequivocal No!
Based on what soccer aficionados call current form, Jose Mourinho - aka the special one - is the hottest Manager in world Football today. And the facts speak for themselves.
ACHIEVEME NTS AT F.C. PORTO
It is common knowledge in football circles that a manger is rated by virtue of the trophies he has won. At F.C. Porto, Jose Mourinho won the Portuguese Super Liga, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League. This is a great achievement in view of the fact that F.C. Porto has not enjoyed such success since the exist of the special one.
ACHIEVEMENTS AT CHELSEA F.C.
Before the arrival of Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge, (Chelsea's stadium) the club had only one Premier League trophy. In fact, Chelsea had become a perennial "also ran" in a league dominated by the big guns of English football i.e. Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. However, Mourinho transformed Chelsea into a force to reckon with. In just three seasons at Chelsea, Mourinho picked up two Premier League trophies, two Carling cup trophies and one F.A. Cup trophy. It is instructive to note that with Mourinho's exit, Chelsea F.C. had a trophy-less season under the now dismissed Manager Avram Grant.
JOSE MOURINHO AS A BRAND NAME
The special one can also be recognized as a very colorful and charismatic individual. He brought a keen competitive nature into the English Premier League. He was also a very outspoken person and his mind games with fellow coaches off the field, added a lot of hype and color to Chelsea's image. Jose Mourinho also registered himself as a brand name so that people will not use his public image to market products without his authorization.
EARNIN GS AS MANAGER
This is where Jose Mourinho stands head and shoulders above every other coach in football history. At Chelsea, Mourinho was on a princely annual salary of 5.2 Million pounds. He received a pay off of $20 million pounds from his former boss Roman Abramovich. Even as I write this article, unconfirmed reports claim that the Portuguese maestro has been offered a record 7.2 million pounds per year to take over as Manager at Italian Club International, Milan.
I may not be a fan of Chelsea football club. I am not even a fan of the brash and garrulous Jose Mourinho. But, as a soccer officionado, I don't let my sentiments becloud my reasoning. Mourinho is one of the most highly rated coaches in world football today. He is not, by any means, overrated. I think he is the best soccer coach on planet earth right now. There simply is no point denying such an incontrovertible fact because it is as obvious as a pimple on the nose !
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