Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho has once again shown he has no problem pointing the finger at his players after his side missed an advantage to end a two-goal draw with Newcastle this weekend.
The Spurs reached the top 2-1 at halftime thanks to a quick double from Harry Kane, but ended up losing their lead in the 85th minute when Joe Willock, on loan from Arsenal, rescued a point for Steve Bruce’s side. .
According to Opta, Tottenham have lost more advantages than any other team in the league after the break in 2020-21, in six games, and lost 11 points this campaign by conceding goals in the last 10 minutes.
After the match, they reminded Mourinho that in the past his teams were famous for clinging to their advantages, and he commented to the BBC: “Same coach, different players.”
Of course, this is not the first time Mourinho has blamed his own players (and / or coaching staff) in front of a global audience, so it seems like a good time to review some of his big hits.
Tanguy Ndombele
After Tottenham faltered to end in a 1-1 draw with Burnley in March 2020, new DT Mourinho decided to get his hands on his big bag of Turkish heads and found a new name to blame.
This time, Tanguy Ndombele, signed for a record € 62m, was the one who paid for the broken plates after being left in the fierce sights of Mourinho. The Spurs coach openly criticized the midfielder’s lack of commitment during his post-match interview.
Ndombele was replaced in the meantime, and Mourinho questioned how many more chances the Frenchman would have to make a good impression after his weak performance in recent weeks.
“He’s a very talented player, and he has to understand that he has to play a lot better. A lot of times our midfielders were hidden. I can’t keep giving them opportunities to play because the team is more important than the players.”
Luke Shaw
Luke Shaw carried the weight of Mourinho’s anger for most of his tenure at Manchester United, as the Portuguese used to shatter his left flank.
Things got to a critical point when Mourinho ran to both sides of the sideline with Shaw – who had just recovered from an injury – during a game against Everton in 2017, shouting -Basic positional instructions to your defender, then take the credit for your performance at the end of the match.
“He (Shaw) was in front of me and I made all his decisions. He has to change his mindset for football. We need his fantastic physical and technical qualities, but he can’t keep using my brain.”
Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial
When United suffered a dismal 1-0 defeat to Brighton towards the end of the 2017-18 season, Mourinho decided it had been the fault of the two strikers he had selected.
Since Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sánchez were not available, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial filled the vacancies, although towards the end of the match they probably wished they had not, as they failed to make an impact in the match.
“It wasn’t good enough. The players who replaced the others didn’t perform at a good level and when they do that, it’s hard for a team to play well.”
“Maybe now they don’t ask me why A, B and C don’t play so much. People always ask, ‘why always Lukaku? Well, now they know why always Lukaku.’
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Despite his obvious talent, Henrikh Mkhitaryan was a fairly peripheral figure at United under Mourinho’s direction, as the coach used to accuse the player of disappearing during matches.
After leaving the Armenian striker out of the squad in two consecutive games in late 2017, Mourinho gave his explanation at a press conference.
“Mkhi started the season very well and then has been slowly disappearing. His performance in terms of goals and assists, high pressure, recovering balls in advanced positions on the court, leading the team as a 10 , it was all slowly diminishing. That was enough (for him not to be a starter), because the others have worked hard to have a chance. “
Sergio Ramos
Even veteran Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos has not been immune to Mourinho’s anger during his complicated stay at the Bernabeu.
After a 1-1 draw against Manchester United in the round of 16 of the Champions League in February 2013, Mourinho directly pointed to Ramos as the man responsible for Danny Welbeck’s goal after allowing his man slide freely from a corner.
“If they watch it on TV, they can see what happened. We train, we get organized, we assign a task to each player, we watch videos of the rival to learn his strengths in set pieces. But when you lose yours individual battles, no matter the organization. They scored in their first attack, and that changed the game. “
Eden Hazard and Cesc Fàbregas
In one of the most biting fights of his career, Mourinho relentlessly gave his famous Chelsea players a terrible start to the 2015-16 season.
After retaining the Premier League title just months earlier, the Blues were plummeting, adding defeat after defeat and positioned in the latter part of the table. In fact, another “surprising” defeat against Leicester City saw Mourinho launch himself in full force with a strong reprimand to his so-called “superstars”.
The Portuguese started by saying that he had been “betrayed” by his players before starting with a series of undisguised contempts in his direction.
“They have to look at Sunderland and Watford and say, ‘hey, we’re at the same level now. I’m not the superstar, I’m not the best player of the season, I’m not the world champion. I’m not the Premier League champion. Right now, I’m at your level. “
pilots
Not only are their players in danger of being attacked by Mourinho’s tongue, with the poor Old Trafford ball-pickers learning in the worst possible way that they weren’t immune either.
With Manchester United’s form at home faltering in early 2018, it is said that Mourinho decided that the blame for the team’s bad streak lay with the speed at which the ball-pickers returned the same. Mourinho kicked out the ball-pickers who were too slow to get the balls back on track after a 2-0 win over Hull in the January 2017 League Cup semi-finals. He selected the youngsters from the Sub team -16 from United for a 1-1 draw with Liverpool after that.
This was not the first time Mourinho had bothered with the pilots, with the Portuguese marching straight to the sideline to challenge a youngster while his Chelsea team went behind Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park in 2014.
“I told him (in the ballpark) not to do this, because there is a risk that one of my players will hit him or lose his stirrups. Not to do this (deliberately delaying the game) because it can cause an incident. But someone he told her to do it. “
His barber
Mourinho did not even take care of the extremely short hair with which he appeared earlier this year, blaming his barber for continuing to cut his hair shorter and shorter while he had fallen asleep in his chair. the room.
“The reason for the haircut is that the barber was bad, and he did a bad job. I fell asleep and when I woke up, the cut was so bad I said, ‘Pass me (the razor) “I hope it grows back.”
We’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and accept that maybe – just maybe – you’ve been joking.