Tuesday 19 May 2009

Mourinho’s typical start: win, win, win


In the champion’s class of 09, we see Mourinho coming back to the honours, the Portuguese coach as made what he always make in his first full season ahead of a club – win the title. He has done it with Porto, Chelsea and now Inter. But looking back and besides his own words, this has been the most simple (if this is a word we can use to describe a national title) victory on his career, Inter fourth title in a row smells like a continuation of Roberto’s Mancini work rather than Mourinho’s ability.
After all, Inter’s lack of football continuous, with a poor campaign in the Champions League (beaten by Man.Utd in the last 16), an early elimination from the Italian cup and a vey unattractive football across all the pitches of the Serie A – they don’t even get the most scoring team in the league, beaten at the time by AC Milan, theres still one game to correct that. So, why point out Mourinho in the team’s success, when we could talk about the only established talent of the nerazurri Ibrahimovic or the image of an experienced and pre-retired team like the all-positions captain Zanetti?
Because, the challenge for ‘le speciallisimo’ his not to win in the first year, but to renew Inter’s squad and make them a force to fear across European football. But, to do so, he needs to gains stability and confidence from the fans and that means to keep the championship winning pace shown by Mancini (in different conditions, with some of the mains rivals relegated to Serie B and others starting with negative points). The first phase of a three years plan is complete, the next one is to start building a new and powerful team, capable of coping against the titans of Serie A but also teams like Man.Utd, Liverpool, Barcelona or Bayern Munich.
And this is the place where we can see Mourinho’s magic fingers doing his thing, although being defeated in the last 16 of the CL, few of us where seeing Inter with the ability to do such a strong performance at Old Trafford and the Portuguese has already begun a new team.

Tip: Balotelli and Santon are the biggest examples of a renewed team, with strong foundations on team proud – it’s always like this in Mourinho’s teams in all the sectors of the field we can find strongly related players to the club. But now comes the tricky part, he still needs to find one or two star players to play alongside the Swedish Ibrahimovic, Lampard said no, Deco his probably not fit to be a regular member of the starting eleven, so where will Mourinho find the next world star?

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