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Jose Mourinho – A real genius of the modern era?

Seeing as the current Chelsea boss has already endured a rather tough start to the 2015/16 campaign, publically falling out with several key members of his medical staff and going on to label his side’s embarrassing 3-0 defeat to Manchester City last month as ‘fake’ – Jose Mourinho seemingly hasn’t changed a great over the summer break.

 

To some he represents an unrivalled revolutionary, triumphantly swimming through a sea of mediocre managerial opposition at best, yet to many others within the wider footballing community in general, the 52-year-old Blues manager simply symbolizes everything wrong with the modern game. A man constantly receiving undeserved praise thanks to his seemingly endless pots of wealth behind the scenes if you will.

 

Either way, Jose Mourinho ultimately remains as enigmatic, captivating and down-right unpredictable as he’s ever been at this stage in the proceedings. Whilst the former Porto, Inter Milan and Real Madrid coach is obviously well liked among his current Stamford Bridge faithful, the rest of us seemingly haven’t quite made our mind up as of yet…

 

So then, is Mourinho simply a managerial genius of the modern era, or ultimately the most over-hyped sensation to break through in the world of football for good while?

 

Before the widely recognised Portuguese manager first made his way to the Premier League with Chelsea in 2004, Jose Mourinho certainly done himself proud in winning the Champions League with FC Porto. It was an achievement very few initially saw coming, even if AS Monaco didn’t exactly offer the toughest of opposition in the final after all.

 

Even in light of such a notion, though, it’s fair to say that Mourinho was whole-heartedly deserving of his reputation for his achievements with the Primeira Liga giants. However, despite proving successful once again with Inter Milan on the European scene in the years that followed, the 52-year-old’s apparent success with both Chelsea and Real Madrid can easily be thrown into question.

 

Both clubs seemingly spend money without any care towards the consequences, so when it comes down to sourcing new players for increasingly expensive transfer fees, Jose Mourinho is given a great deal more flexibility than most of his managerial counterparts. It takes a truly special manager to dominate his field without the advent of great wealth behind him – and as the English game arguably hasn’t paid witness to such a manager since the days of Brian Clough – Jose Mourinho seemingly isn’t the ‘Special One’ after all.

 

But maybe we shouldn’t even be mentioning such a roughly recycled phrase over and over again anyway. Mourinho’s very own ego came out with that particular offering all those years ago after all, yet as the media constantly love to bring it up in favour of the Portuguese tactician, perhaps the current Chelsea boss isn’t exclusively to blame for the potentially questionable rise of his status in this country.

 

Let’s face it – although many Chelsea fans operating in the modern era conveniently chose to look past the great fortune that has been witnessed at their club in recent seasons – most top-flight managers would eventually succeed if their chairmen offered up boundless amounts of cash to spend with every passing transfer window. Although Chelsea aren’t quite the big spenders they used to be nowadays, make no mistake, all of the club’s recent success has been built upon Roman Abramovich’s money more than anything else.

 

Yet through Chelsea’s improved form out on the pitch in the last decade or so, Jose Mourinho is often painted out to be some kind of modern Renaissance man when it comes to dealing with the press in post-match interviews and the like. As unorthodox as his approach may be, the Premier League has seen ultimately seen this kind of maverick inspired behaviour before via the likes of Eric Cantona and his very own brand of speaking with the media.

 

Mourinho however is a great deal more undignified in his style. He often serves to insult his Premier League opposition, freely expresses his misgivings with officials, as well as proving to be no more than a mere hypocrite when the abuse is labelled at his side for a change. As this is Jose Mourinho we are talking about though – the F.A. often cower when the chance to truly reprimand the Chelsea boss arises.

 

So then, whilst Mourinho certainly knows how to get his way both on and off the pitch in the modern era – an attribute that must nonetheless be somewhat credited in the cold light of day – the enigmatic Portuguese boss ultimately isn’t all that special with all things considered. Sometimes the hype simply becomes more powerful than the reality behind it all when everyone allows themselves to be carried away.

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