Mourinho Questioning Rafa's Rotation

[Leo No.8]

He says he never rotates Terry because he's capable of playing every game - presumably this is a dig at Benitez resting Gerrard.

 

I don't think its a great example as centre-halves are a different kettle of fish. I don't think Carra would be rotated either if he stayed fit, he hasn't often been in the past.

 

I suppose Lampard would be a better example, as he plays in the same position as Gerrard and is never rotated if fit. My thoughts were that perhaps because Lampard is never rested, is why his performances have gone downhill so much over the back end of last season, the World Cup and the start of this season.

 

I know he gets a lot of stick on here and rightly so lately, but he looked a much better player 8 months or so ago than he does now; could be due to tiredness. I agree with Rafa that even your top players need the odd break here and there.

 

He just never shuts up that c*nt does he, always chirping on about us.

Edited September 15, 2006 by Leo No.8

[floyd]

He says he never rotates Terry because he's capable of playing every game

Thta's because anyone can stand in the middle doing very little, except thinking of which lad he's going to tap up in Heaven on a Sat. night.

[Bigal]

how many times has rafa rotated Jamie carragher?

[johngibo YPC]

slightly paranoid i think

[Bigal]

who? me? who said that?

[CarraLegend]

Who cares what he thinks anyway?

 

He's a bell.

[Gravy]

Lampard doesn't get through half the work Gerrard does on a football field that's why he doesn't need to be rested. He does feck all running when he playing.

[The Hitman]

He's a bell.

Is right.

Dismiss.

[Guest macca777]

just because he's paranoid doesnt mean the b******s arent out to get him!

[Will]

He should keep his nose out

[George Costanza]

Can't believe any Liverpool fan gives a rats ass what he thinks about us. He's spouted enough s**** since he came to the Prem for us to ignore his ramblings.

 

I question Rafa's rotation policy. I think its too much sometimes but as long as the results come I don't care.

 

The translator should start worring about his own teams inbalance & let others sort themselves out.

[Earl Hafler]

He says he never rotates Terry because he's capable of playing every game - presumably this is a dig at Benitez resting Gerrard.

 

I don't think its a great example as centre-halves are a different kettle of fish. I don't think Carra would be rotated either if he stayed fit, he hasn't often been in the past.

 

I suppose Lampard would be a better example, as he plays in the same position as Gerrard and is never rotated if fit. My thoughts were that perhaps because Lampard is never rested, is why his performances have gone downhill so much over the back end of last season, the World Cup and the start of this season.

 

I know he gets a lot of stick on here and rightly so lately, but he looked a much better player 8 months or so ago than he does now; could be due to tiredness. I agree with Rafa that even your top players need the odd break here and there.

 

He just never shuts up that c*nt does he, always chirping on about us.

 

 

 

That would be Mourinho who has nothing to say about other teams.

Boring c***.

 

Rafa in Istanbul !!!

[smithdown]

Mourinho says focus is on points

 

Jon Brodkin

Saturday September 16, 2006

The Guardian

 

 

Jose Mourinho hardly shoved aside the olive branch held out by Rafael Benítez, but Chelsea's manager emphasised yesterday that it cannot be assumed he will shake hands with his Liverpool counterpart tomorrow. Going through the motions for the cameras does not interest him. Only if a genuine rapprochement is achieved in private before kick-off will he acknowledge the Spaniard in public afterwards.

Mourinho believes anything else would constitute hypocrisy but he seems ready to end the cold war that has plagued his relationship with Benítez and seen the pair finish their past two meetings, in an FA Cup semi-final and last month's Community Shield, without the traditional post-match formality. Asked whether he envisaged shaking hands with Benítez in private at Stamford Bridge, Mourinho said: "Yes, I think so." But it will require more than Benítez has suggested so far to achieve that.

 

 

 

Liverpool's manager said on Tuesday that he would happily accept a handshake from Mourinho tomorrow. "At the end of the game I will wait and see if he offers his hand," Benítez said. "If he does then I'll shake it. Not a problem." Mourinho, though, will not make such an offer if they have not spoken by that point and put an end to the ill-feeling.

"Shake hands? It depends," he said. "If shaking hands is not with feeling and is just for the cameras, I am not ready for that because I don't care what people think or people say. I don't care about the image; I care about human feelings. If the feeling in fact is positive, or is not negative, and we realise in the past some comments shouldn't have been made, I am more than ready for that. Before the game, after the game, I am more than ready for that. But in front of the cameras, just for nice pictures, I am not one for that."

 

He explained why public perceptions are not important to him in this instance: "Because I am not a hypocrite. These are the values that I pass to my children and that my family passed to me and that my wife's family passed to her. We are very direct and objective on that.

 

"If I go home and I think 'OK, I made one or two comments about Benítez that I shouldn't have said,' and if Benítez is at home and he feels 'Yeah, I made some comments about Jose I shouldn't make,' OK, no reasons to have a bad relationship. In the tunnel, away from the cameras, we shake hands, maybe a hug. We speak for two or three minutes and it's over and it's done.

 

"If we are hypocrites - and I am not - we don't speak, we are in the tunnel and we don't look at each other and then we go to the dug-outs in front of everybody and we shake hands. The next day in the press: Mourinho and Benítez are very good friends."

 

 

 

ere

[Cooldude]

Gee he's a c***

[smithdown]

His mum said not to shake hands with the nasty man. He was brought up to be a good boy.

 

Puuurrrrrrr-ick!

[Benitez]

anyone else read that Guardian piece and wonder what the fec he's going on about now? He's babbling like an idiot more and more these days. Little of that made any sort of sense.

[Gray - YPC]

Mourinho is scared - FACT

Mourinho is obsessed - FACT

Mourinho could well spontaneusly combust if things start to go wrong for him!

[suzyv]

Perhaps it would have been better if he came out and said I will shake hands if Chelsea win because I can not see him shaking raffas hand if we win

[allez les rouges]

anyone else read that Guardian piece and wonder what the fec he's going on about now? He's babbling like an idiot more and more these days. Little of that made any sort of sense.

 

 

"'Yeah, I made some comments about Jose I shouldn't make,'"

 

what the fook is he on about? what fooking comments? he is one paranoid jumped up little fooker who is so self obsessed that he lies about other people to keep himself in the limelight. what a t***.

[Lee W]

He knows he is inferior to Benitez both as a coach, tactician and as a human being. That's all we need to know and care about really.

[Ombudsam]

Lampard doesn't get through half the work Gerrard does on a football field that's why he doesn't need to be rested. He does feck all running when he playing.

 

Lampard is playing s*it but covers more ground than gerrard

[Maldini]

 

Lampard is playing s*it but covers more ground than gerrard

His shadow does

[lfc_col]

he does more running so he can get more burgers for his fat figure

[Lee W]

Lampard is playing s*it but covers more ground than gerrard

 

Are you being funny or something ?

 

Not in this world he doesn't.

[gkmacca]

Those tired old hacks on Jimmy Hill's show on Sky this morning were, as usual, so eager to snip at Rafa they went straight from claiming that Rafa's rotational 'system' had upset Gerrard to complaining that said system was evidence that Rafa was scared of upsetting his players. They really do stun you with the brazenness of their bias these days.