Reply to: oh dear: Hiddink mocks England's tactics

[TheFaQQer]

Actually you're right.
He made the statement yesterday:
http://www.itv-football.co.uk/story/...815248,00.html

Not enough wonga offered, then
Unless it's just a negotiation ploy.

I think there are those who adore me in England.

Modest as ever.

[sasguru]

If that is true, he is mad.

Actually you're right.
He made the statement yesterday:
http://www.itv-football.co.uk/story/...815248,00.html

Not enough wonga offered, then
Unless it's just a negotiation ploy.

[wendigo100]

If that is true, he is mad.

[sasguru]

Sorry guys you're both wrong. He wants it.

"Observer Sport first revealed the Portuguese's interest in taking on the post on 23 September, four days after his departure from Chelsea. Though Mourinho has been the victim of prurient tabloid interest in his personal life since then, his interest in managing England has not diminished. 'Nothing has changed,' said a source close to Mourinho yesterday. 'If something happened to McClaren and the FA invited Jose to do the job he would be very interested in taking it on. It is a real possibility."

The Sun said roughly the same thing. And a PR mate of mine reckons this is how things are done. If he didn't want it, he would have made an official announcement denying the press reports.
There is a lot of activity behind the scenes. You heard it here first.

[AtW]

I don't think he would be a disaster and he wouldn't think so either.

For England and for Jose it is a disaster not to hit the top score - if he went out in quater final or even in semi final that would still be a bummer for England, he simply does not need this crap especially given that in reality "management" of England's team is limited to a handful of days before actual matches - I am not suprised that players play crap - this is because they rarely play with each other.

[wendigo100]

I don't think he would be a disaster and he wouldn't think so either. He'd be at least as good as Sven. Getting England to a quarter or semi of a major competition counts as success in this context, when we can't even qualify.
And his private life seems solid too so no grist for the mill there.
I'd like him to give it a shot.

There is no way he would take the England job.

I think I said this somewhere on here before, but he won't have control of his players, their coaching, their tactics, their playing/resting, or anything else for ten or eleven months of the year. That goes completely against the modus operandi that made him successful.

We could employ him as PR guru though!

[snaw]

Jose has already came out and stated that the only national team he'd coach is Portugal.

[TheFaQQer]

He is not stupid - to have disaster while being English coach will put him out of top jobs elsewhere, which is why he won't take any of the national teams while he can milk clubs for years to come.

Wouldn't say that - Sven is at Man City now.


Oh.

[sasguru]

He is not stupid - to have disaster while being English coach will put him out of top jobs elsewhere, which is why he won't take any of the national teams while he can milk clubs for years to come.

I don't think he would be a disaster and he wouldn't think so either. He'd be at least as good as Sven. Getting England to a quarter or semi of a major competition counts as success in this context, when we can't even qualify.
And his private life seems solid too so no grist for the mill there.
I'd like him to give it a shot.

[wendigo100]

It's all down to the cold, hard cash in the end.
And he's probably egotistical enough to think he can succeed.

You might be right, but he's already rich, has rich clubs queueing up for him behind the scenes, and he must know that managing England is a no-win situation.

[snaw]

I liked Alex Fergusons comments last week:

"I think it says a lot that there are more Scots playing in the Champions League this season than there are English players," said Ferguson

Seems to me that there's something more to be read into that ...

[AtW]

He is not stupid - to have disaster while being English coach will put him out of top jobs elsewhere, which is why he won't take any of the national teams while he can milk clubs for years to come.

[sasguru]

Don't know but I cannot see him taking it.

It's all down to the cold, hard cash in the end.
And he's probably egotistical enough to think he can succeed.

[wendigo100]

Anyway waht happend to the Sun story this weekend that Mourinho was interested in the England job?

Don't know but I cannot see him taking it.

[AtW]

Hiddink is a master manipulator of the media.

Sounds like he can get a nice job in Nu Liebor election campaign team