This is not a wind - up thread.
The Premiership would be a far poorer place without him. Who knows how long that Scots drunk will stumble around for? We need Jose. The man is clearly a fantastic manager and his manipulation of the media adds to the circus. I love his post-match comments today. A normal person would have said "yeah...Liverpool Football Club have got world class players and a tactical genius as a manager...it was a friendly but it is clear that they will be a force to be reckoned with".
Not Jose.
Apparently, only his players were at the World Cup and they are therefore a bit tired.
The bloke is a legend and, as a true believer, I cannot wait to hear what he says when we win the League thie year.
I also feel a bit sorry for him...Ballack and Shevchenko were clearly purchased with more than his own tactical requirements in mind. He will become a victim of the way that Chelsea are being run. When he does go, I hope he stays in the Premiership.
The following things are worrying him;
1. Rafa is a better manager. Jose cannot prove he is better when he is spending a net amount many times more than Rafa every year. He knows that the Rafalution will now threaten Chelsea's domestic dominance.
2. Our midfield is the best balanced midfield I have had the pleasure to watch. I only wish we had retained the Kaiser but his talent deserves to play every week. No-one else in the Premiership can match our midfield as a unit.
3. As Jose acknowledged, we now have an attacking suite of options which allows Rafa to vary things according to the opposition. This makes it very difficult to pick a team and tactics to play against us. Gonzalez, Bellamy and Pennant is a very different proposition to Garcia, Fowler and Crouch, (mix and match ad infinitum).
4. If we qualify for the Champion's League we will add another forward option. I am not convinced it will be a pure striker. That will add to our options.
5. The best defence, statistically, in the Premiership has been strengthened in every respect in the last 8 months.
6. Our players are double hard. Sami, Carra, Gerrard, Momo the Destroyer, Paletta. And that is before we threaten anyone with Pako. It wouldn't be a fight...it would be a massacre.
Peace and Love