Big interview with Jose

What is your philosophy as a manager?

To adapt. You need to know how to adapt to the reality of the club, what it needs, what it demands. That is called being intelligent… When I arrived at Real Madrid, they had not got past the last 16 of the Champions’ League for ten years. A player as notable as Sergio Ramos did not even know what a quarter-final was. Barcelona were a dominant force on the continent.

How to beat them? When I arrived at Inter, they had been the champions of Italy for several years. How to take them further and win the Champions’ League? I came back to Chelsea, who had not won the Premier League for four years. How to make that happen again?

The priority is to establish relationships founded on peace and love in the squad, to create stability. Manchester United no longer has the super personalities of Giggs, Scholes or Roy Keane.

There is still Rooney and Carrick, who are the final faces of that generation, and a new group of players must adapt. That is why it was important for me to bring in Zlatan. In this team, he had, without being English, without knowing the culture of the club, the personality and the fit to be more than just a simple player.


I think this is a key part of the interview, all of us have talked about the club lacking players with personality and Jose sought to rectify it.

Is how he adapts to the clubs he has managed by spending a fnck ton of money.

When is the mafioso gonna bankrupt you Lubo mate? Should be any day now.

If there's nothing in there about how great a human being Bastian is then I don't care, the man was a legend, he should be getting a knighthood godamit!

Lubo

Yeah, I prefer it when managers join a big club and choose to not spend any money available to them. As we all know, money isn't there to be spent but instead left untouched never to be used.

Cheers Arab, nice read.

Jose was spot on with the signing of Zlatan to be fair.

Thanks for posting this Arab