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Mourinho ready to talk to England  

Mourinho has been out of work since leaving Chelsea in September
Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has expressed a cautious interest in taking the vacant England manager's job.
Mourinho, who left Chelsea in September, said he would be happy to talk to the Football Association.

"You will have to speak to the FA to see if they are interested in offering me the job," he told The Sun newspaper.

"I cannot say what I think until they say they are interested. Tell the FA to come and get me. We will have to wait and see, but I rule nothing out."

Mourinho would be a popular choice to replace Steve McClaren at the helm with England because of his hugely impressive record with Chelsea and Porto.

He won two Portuguese championships, the Uefa Cup and the Champions League with Porto, before leaving to win two Premier League titles, two League Cups and the FA Cup with the Blues.

The 44-year-old had been tipped to stay in club management, having previously insisted that he would only be interested in coaching his native Portugal at international level.

Obviously just realised how much the job pays!

NMH

Hes the only person to handle our stars and media.  Go get him

Good I think he's ace 8)

But that has now screwed up Bob's plan B !! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Agreed

Jose for England!

Yes get him.

I'd fooking love him.

And for how little work.

You do realise that he'd play a defensive minded 451/433 formation, in exactly the same way, and probably with the same personnel that SM did against Croatia and you all slagged him off for?

FUCKING GET IN THERE! JOSE IS THE MAN TO WIN US THE WORLD CUP

Is he going to suddenly clone an instant football team of superb players then, Gaz?

Or were you being flippant?

It's shocking that we can't produce a manager of high enough quality within the English football set up, that said though if we have to have a foreigner then you can't get much better than Jose.
It'll never be dull thats for sure......... :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

He's not changed his mind, he never said he wasn't interested.



So if he plays the same formation then he can't possible be any better? If a manager plays 4-4-2 is it impossible for him to do any better than any other manager playing 4-4-2? I think the loss to Croatia had less to do with formation and more to do with picking a goalkeeper with no experience in a game anywhere near this big, having never played a competitive game for England before. Unsurprisingly he was clearly very nervous and put in one of the most inept performances in England's history.

McClaren has a very average management record, only achievements being winning the league cup and losing the uefa cup, Mourinho on the other hand has been the most successful manager in the world over the last few years. He would be by far the best choice for the job even if he costs £10 million a year.

Mclaren was dull and boring. At least Mourinho will be entertaining.

Go back to the Croatia game thread and count the number of posts that slag Maclaren off for playing 451. There's a few that insist that anyone that doesn't play 442 with an English team is an idiot and shouldn't be allowed to manage a pub team.

I'm just pointing out that if people think like that then they shouldn't get all excited by the special one. He after all is the man who played Cole, Lampard and SWP in exactly the same formation and positions for Chelsea.

I think it's bollocks as I said at the time. For me you lost because 3 out of 4 of your defence just weren't good enough to be playing international football, and without Rooney you're almost completely lacking ideas going forward in open play.

The difference being maclaren did not know how to impliment the 4-5-1 formation did he .

None of those players wanted to play for him, mourinho  is a different kettle of fish the nation will be behind him from day one which has not happened since Terry venables probably

Fair point, I just ignore most of that stuff, there's nothing wrong with 4-5-1 when played well.

4-5-1 = the sack

Agreed. Lets get Houllier in.