Topic: Tottenham Hotspur: Jose Mourinho Sacked (Read 273 times)

He won’t get another elite club level job now. He’s been sacked from his last 3 club jobs. I think sometimes a manager goes past his peak & his methods don’t work any more. That’s happened with Mourinho now.

Mourinho was not sacked because he opposed the European Super League, he was sacked because he was not a success at Tottenham and because he was losing trust of the players who told the chairman they wanted their previous manager (Pochettino) back.

Ferguson did it. Zidane did it. Pep did it. But while one retired because he knew that era was over and Zidane and Pep evolved, people like Mou still stuck to his old ways and discovered often it doesn't work anymore.

Still a shame to sack him before the final. That's like giving City a free pass, but hopefully Kane and Son and Moura all give it their best shot. Lost my quadruple already so don't want to see City lift anymore cups:)

That is true,,, this guy does not like to be not the master of his own destiny so he does what he can to leave on his own terms when he knows the exit is pointed to him. Always a man to choose his own destiny no matter what. I can respect him for that. The era of mourinho and mind games no longer works,,, he has to accept this however.

It is said that he was sacked because of protesting against Tottenham's joining the European Super League and not preparing his team for the training.

Maybe true maybe not, but I find the decision right anyway. Because Tottenham have been really inadequate when it comes to performance. I don't think that he is the right manager for this team.

I agree, there is no doubt about several aspects of his past that can be argued about because his fantastic achievements speak for themselves but his last winner as a league manager was in 2015 and his last major trophy was a Europa League win in 2017 and with new managers coming along with new ideas he really is not the special one:

- Porto 2002/3 Domestic/European Treble
Primeira Liga
Taça de Portugal
UEFA Cup

- Porto 2003/4 Domestic/European Double
Primeira Liga
UEFA Champions League

- Chelsea 2004/5 + 2005/06 + 2014/15 including first champions winners since 1955
Premier League

- Inter Milan 2009–10 Domestic/European Treble
Serie A
Coppa Italia
UEFA Champions League

- Real Madrid 2011/12
La Liga

- Manchester United 2016/17
UEFA Europa League


I think what he did at Porto in the 18 months here was there was nothing short of brilliant. Chelsea were right to sign him but the Chelsea team that won the Premier League in 2004/5 was created by Ranieri who already guided them to 2nd place the season before. Winning back to back Premier League titles was also a big thing to add on his CV too. The Italian domestic double and Champions League win in 2009/10 was a brilliant achievement too and must be a highlight of his career.


The media are stating that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy wanted to sack Mourinho just days before the EFL Cup Final because he would find it harder to sack a manager that gave Tottenham their first trophy since 2008. He used the European Super League as a perfect excuse to do it because it is clear Tottenham can mount a challenge for the 4th place Champions League spot and win the EFL Cup without Mourinho being there.


He lost has appeal and his approach to players a long time ago and has been riding high on the back of previous successes and that does not suit him. He really needed to be successful at Spurs to get that self-belief back but it did not work out. He seems to be very wealthy with the millions of USD$ he receives in compensation every time he gets sacked which is probably not what he wants.


Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has a habit of doing these types of things. He did it unexpectedly with Harry Redknapp and with Mauricio Pochettino too and even with his first manager Glenn Hoddle after buying the club in 2001.

^ Well probably, this person really have the skills to win honestly. It is just that his goal and agenda is way too different than just winning games. He is now a businessman and not a coach (a corrupted one). I heard that this guy plays dirty in a way that he manipulates the game and influences his players to do so. They used his previous reputation to earn underground. He used it to be considered as one of the candidates and took the chance to earn from losing. He was actually good before this time. He has his golden times before, but I guess as usual everybody’s time fades time by time. So you really have to enjoy it while it lasts.

I saw this coming, I don't think the problem is Mourinho, any coach would struggle to do well with the spurs. Even Pochettino struggled before he left. The team needs new players, they've gotten their transfers wrong.
They should have let him play the Carabao cup final at least, he boasted he had delivered at least a trophy in d teams he managed, they should have given him till the end of the season; but is only them that knows the exert cause of the immediate sack.

I guess that's the end of Mourinho managing any big club in England, I foresee BVB as his next destination, they are struggling

Mourinho is not the same manager he was in his earlier days, he never adapted to managing the modern player but I do think if he was allowed to bring in a few players of his own choice then Spurs might be in a much stronger league position so I have to blame their chairman Daniel Levy too.


The problem with Mourinho is that when his teams are not performing as they should he turns against his players and they stop playing for him. I think Dele Alli and Harry Winks will be relieved as they might be able to get back in to the first team after falling out with Mourinho.


I agree with you, he is the one to blame for getting sacked because he turns against the players and puts himself in a bad light. The players go on to the pitch and play according to the style the manager wants but the teams Mourinho has managed have not performed consistently well and have underachieved too.

I am not surprised to see Mourinho being sacked from Tottenham and race for team who will hire him in next season is just getting started.
They can't blame everything on coach but winning only one match in last six from all competition is not good and this may shake them if they still want to have some chance for Euro competition next year
and win in League Cup final against Man City.
Derby coach Wayne Rooney said that this is crazy decision at this time, but Ryan Mason will be in charge of Spurs for rest of the season.
Let's see how they will react against Southampton in two days.

Your description seems overly harsh on him, especially when coaches are micro analyzed game after game the pressure on them must be relentless and he is probably glad of a break now. The timing is super suspicious and there are some rumors that he refused to lead his players out to training this morning, in a defiant act against the European Super League announcement. It's amazing how a week or two of bad results can shift sentiment - only back in February, Tottenham managed to rack up four wins where they scored 4 times each match, lots of people have a short memory when following football. It feels like a job where the results will never be good enough for some. Good luck to him though and may he be able to have a very comfortable retirement if he wants it.

This was to be expected, he does not try to become one with the players, he puts himself above them, so he constantly has conflicts with the players. He had no order  either in Chelsea or in Manchester, why did Tottenham decide that this time everything will work out? I'm not surprised that he was fired from his post as head coach.

Maybe they don't want Tottenham to remain in such a bad position for the remainder of the last game. I think the board has a target to be able to play at UEL (at least), so they are considering sacking mourinho now. Although this is not a guarantee for tottenham to get to UEL in the final standings.

Maybe it true that Mourinho relies on star player with expensive purchases nowadays, so he failed to build a solid team like when he in Porto. I don't know.

I was expecting Tottenham board to keep him for another season then sack him if the result doesn't improve. It doesn't make sense to make a big change late in the game.

He made his name outside of the Premier League so he could make it in other top leagues but he loves the EPL. I remember him saying it's the toughest.

It was very surprised that Tottenham suddenly fired Mourinho. Under the tutelage of Mourinho Tottenham appearance was still below standard, being in 7th position is not a good achievement for a team like Tottenham.
Based on media reports, Tottenham fired Jose Mourinho because the coach refused to bring his squad to the European Super League which he considered still illegal and finally the tottenham management chose to fires him.

Yeah since winning with Inter Milan with 3 wins with the trophy, after that Mourinho is no longer the achievement that many other clubs expected with lots of moves to other clubs couldn't bring any better and now with Tottenham Hotspur at the end with sacking. who was in a hurry because the management already knew that being defended was not a good thing, even though it was difficult to catch up in the top 4 in the English league?

Ryan Mason will take over as a replacement while management believes it is too young for him to be a coach but in the meantime can see how the Spurs are in his hands.

At this time Spurs still haven't announced a permanent coach candidate. I hope to find the best coach to improve the quality of Tottenham Hotspur's game.

Morinho's glorious era seems to have ended now and in fact we can see when Morinho has handled a club as big as Manchester United which has only been able to win 3 trophies, namely the Community Shield Cup, the English League Cup and also the Europa League Cup so far. His coaching at Manchester United, if we look at these three trophies, is certainly not worth the large amount of money spent by Manchester United to buy some of the world's big players like Paul Pogba and Eric Balily at that time. It seems that Tottenham also made the right decision to remove Morinho from his current squad because Tottenham's performance this year is quite bad, which is only in 7th position and in my opinion the bus parking tactic that has been a mainstay of Morinho's game is no longer a scary tactic for the team other teams and bus parking tactics have been easily beaten by a team that relies on attacks on the wings and is assisted by a capable attacking midfielder.

Yes, the news is currently excited about Tottenham sacking Jose Mourinho, I am a little curious about Mourinho's dismissal, Tottenham immediately evaluate the new manager 'Ryan Mason'.

Does this have anything to do with the European Super League, until Mourinho's dismissal, I saw Tottenham in the top 12 club of the European Super League.
Nonetheless I hope Tottenham will be even better in the hands of Ryan Mason this spring.

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It's normal , people loose their touch after a time , I do believe that he would still her jobs in small teams or might coach on a private basis. This would mean he can continue earning and can even stay away from the limelight. We have seen a lot of examples over the years , that's just how it goes.

But shouldn't they have made this decision earlier ? Literally not even a week before finals and they decided to sack him. They did already know how it's gonna go then should have Invested more in the first place.

The guy is getting a compensation package worth 20 millions , what else could be done ? It's all good for him right now.

I think they did it because of the pressure from joining the super league and they thought the team needed something better.

Let's see how their decision affects everything.

I think Mourinho is not the special one from a long time now.His time was a few years ago when he won Champions League titles.The biggest achievement of his career is with Inter in Italy in 2010 when he won Serie A,Italian Cup and the Champions League in the same year.From then he has only seen downfalls.