Comments on: Video of the Day: These Days are Coming Back

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:17:10 +0000

And the rest of them are saints.

I just find it highly entertaining, and am quite sure that both Ranieri and Mourinho do as well.

By: alessio

alessio — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:23:43 +0000

Yeah, Ursus, because he’s an asshole. Always has been, always will. Some people think he’s changed now that he left Chelski. He’s still the “Special One.”

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:24:12 +0000

ah well what better way to stuff it up his arse than beating inter this coming season, like we always do.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:06:20 +0000

It’s really quite beautfiful to see how worked up the Juventini have gotten over this.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:06:48 +0000

Mourinho is a mercenary he cheases money i want to see him manage a team with a bugjet like fiorentina or napoli he ran from porto the minute chelsea came calling and even taking porto’s best players. and for his cl trophy had chelsea knocked out monaco ranieri’s men would of beaten porto. he won a cl big deal that year was the worst final coming off an all italian final the year before.

By: alessio

alessio — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:16:43 +0000

That’s because Ranieri was gently digging at him. Other Italy coaches do it too. Mourinho took it too far, personally and professionally insulting him.

Ranieri has won a Coppa Italia (with Fiorentina, not a “Big 4 team”) and took Chelski to their two best seasons ever, as of that point. He also finished 2nd to the only EPL team to ever go an entire season without losing. Mourinho wouldn’t have won shit without Abrahimovic’s money and Arsenal’s steady decline.

By: Johonna

Johonna — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:42:31 +0000

And because you brought it up, the latest volley:
On the recent exchanges with Juventus coach Claudio Ranieri, Mourinho explained: “It’s simple. Ranieri spoke once and he was happy, then he spoke for a second time and he was happy. He spoke for a third time and he was even happier. I have only spoken once and he got a bit angry. It’s 3-1 to him, but mine was a beautiful goal. No one likes losing 3-1 but it’s fine like this, I accept the defeat. However, I will support Ranieri and Juve in the Champions League qualifier.”

http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?N=29618&L=en&IDINI=29620

By: Johonna

Johonna — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:25:27 +0000

Besides, it is just stupid media-made drama. Both Ranieri and Mou know exactly what they are doing.

The Italian Media put Mourinho up on a pedestal when he came to Italy and now they are having fun knocking him down.

Big deal. Lets play ball.

By: MAD

MAD — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:17:45 +0000

I think Ranieri is a very decent coach. But I think Mo’ labeled his trophy case pretty accurately.

First of all, Mo did win the EPL domestic league, twice I think. I don’t think Ranieri was able to do that once. Also, I believe that Mo won at least one FA cup, which I don’t think Ranieri did. So I will respectfully disagree about how far Mo’ got Chelsea relative to Ranieri.

Mo’ also has a UEFA Cup and CL cup and a Portuguese domestic cup in addition to his winnings in England.

So he has the hardware. If you don’t like him personally and think he’s classless, that would be your opinion and there is little I can say about that.

But I don’t know about overrated. He has the trophies… If he retired right now, he would have done what only a few have done, ever… he’s won 2 different domestic league titles and how many coaches can brag about having a CL trophy? BTW he’s only in his 40s. I don’t think- objectively- that’s too shabby.

As far as what the media created… Mo’ has been successful and quote worthy. In this instance, I think Ranieri started this fight. The Corriere is a Roma paper. It doesn’t shock me that they would jump on the Inter coach for shooting back.

By: alessio

alessio — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:00:54 +0000

He’s the perfect guy for the job at Juventus. He actually coaches players and creates stars, Zola, Lampard, Terry, Canizares, all can thank him for their careers. Of course it’d take a while to get to the top of coaching when you actually played for most of your life. Obviously Mourinho had the time to jump in at age 25. Ranieri and Lippi were busy on the field.

Mourinho’s trophy haul doesn’t impress me. Abrahimovic bought him the premiership, but he couldn’t take Chelsea any farther than Ranieri did. The media created Mourinho, the asshole is so arrogant he gave himself his own stupid nickname, he’s classless, overrated, and generally a jackass of a human. Wouldn’t expect Ancelotti or Spaletti to launch that kind of attack, but it doesn’t surprise me it came from Jose.