“He is a specialist in failure. I’m not,”
“If supposedly he is right and I’m afraid to fail, it’s because I haven’t failed many times. “Maybe he’s right. Maybe I’m not used to failing."

“The reality is he is a specialist. Eight years without a piece of silverware, that’s failure. If I do that at Chelsea, eight years, I leave London and I don’t come back.”

@Dephased: Those aren't proper excuses to why they won silverware and you didn't.

Wigan did get relegated but only needed 4 more points to stay up. That isn't a "sacrifice"; that's a close finish. Same goes for Birmingham, except they needed only 1 point to stay up. Not to mention they defeated non other than Arsenal themselves. Portsmouth may have had financial difficulties later on, but there owner wasn't a "sugar daddy". Even when spending a lot on the club, he didn't have a team as strong as Arsenal's, yet still they won the FA Cup. They may be in the 3rd division now but at least they won something with the money spent before they went downhill.

Liverpool spent 35m on Carroll and 20m on Henderson through the money made by selling Torres. Plus, they also got Suarez in that transfer window. In the end, they got 15m back by selling Carroll to West Ham, Henderson is now one of the in form EPL players, and Suarez is the best striker in the world. Sure they haven't been in the CL in a while but it's only been four years out of the CL and that's thanks to some financial troubles of their own as well. Forward to present time, and Liverpool look more and more likely to finish in the top four, hell maybe even top 3.

@Alex:" he needed to rebuild a team to compete with the ones who were spending the most in the league "

Well, not quite. Claudio Ranieri had built quite a good team for him already... ;)

^Couldn't agree more. In fact, we would have made it to the finals of the CL had Cudicini not been injured.

I just can't believe what I'm reading. Really makes me question you guys. I have so much that I was going to say but something today reminded me that life is short and it's better not to embrace negative feelings.

Don't be suprised , Mou always disrespects others he is a ignorant prick.

Specialist in failure... Yet he has achieved with Arsenal:
3 BPL titles, 4 FA Cups, and 4 Community Shields.
I guess those titles don't count, huh?

^^^ Only the last 8 years count brother

i agree with foota and I_M.. Mou is a great manager.. but he's just too arrogant..

Time to come back to our classical Since arsenal last won a trophy..

@fabri - Every team Mourinho joins, they have immediate success. Not necessarily from the amount he spends
on player signings. His training methods, conditioning/opposition reports is of the highest standard. His
psychological motivation and man managing to get the best out of his squad is unlike any other coach in the
World. He builds his players up to the point where each of them believe that they are the best in their positions.
The relationship with players is one of a best friend or almost a father that you will give 100% in every game for.
This unique relationship is best observed in his time with Porto, Chelsea and Inter.

In his first season 08/09 with Inter he did win the Serie A. His 1st game of the Season he won the Supercoppa Italiana

against Roma. Majority of success was done with players who were already at the club.

09/10 , crucial reinforcements that got the team to the level of CL title contenders. Players like, Lucio, Eto'o, Milito, Thiago Motta and Sniejder complemented each other perfectly. All signed for incredible and unbelievable bargains (Ibra/Eto'o deal probably the best deal of all time) (Milito best debut season of any player imo)

(Sneijder, undoubtedly the best midfielder of 09/10) (Lucio, the rock of our defense). Mourinho has a talent for signing Club legends. The 2nd game of the season, against Milan, was the most dominating derby victory against the Rossoneri I have ever witnessed. I was in awe that such a performance was even possible. Milito in 09/10 season was the best Striker/player in club football in the world. He was so crucial in winning the Treble. Scored the goal that clinched Coppa Italia, Serie A, and CL. If Maradona played him properly, who knows what he could have done in the WC. He could have been in contention for Ballon d'Or without a doubt. That's what Mourinho can do. Get a player from coming off a great season in Genoa and build him up to a player who scores the decider to win a treble!

Love him or hate him. There is no denying Mourinho is the Special One. What he did in 2 years with Inter is more than what Wenger has done in his whole time at Arsenal. No disrespect to Wenger. What he's done at Arsenal has been great. Qualifying every year for CL with the team he's had post Invincibles is nothing

short of incredible. But that's not what people will remember unfortunately. They will not remember him balancing the clubs finances, moving to a new stadium. They will look for the silverware with disregard of other details. What they see now is a feeder club that has fallen from grace, a club that is always falling short of any targets. That's why Henry
left because as he said on the Norton interview, "I wanted to be in a competitive team". As much a Henry loved Arsenal, he realised Wenger was more interested in finances of the club rather than winning titles and being competitive. He realised that Arsenal will struggle to win any trophies with there frugal approach. What Wenger accomplished from 97 - 04 in BPL was phenomenal. Majority of Arsenal supporters I know fell in love with the club in that era. A club that played both visually pleasing football and also won titles attracted fans from all around the World. They played with flair, imagination and in the end won something. They were creative and confident. Now Arsenal still play attractive football but don't get the results.

Mourinho uses the press conference as an opportunity to take the pressure off his teams. He takes the opportunity to get under opponents skin and test there mental strength to his advantage. A psychological warfare. He puts doubt in the oppositions mind. He makes his players feel like there is nothing he is worried about because he know already knows they are the best. So it's all psychological motivation, that to other teams makes him look arrogant. It's
all a process to have his team in a winning state of mind. Victory always starts in the mind, then the mind gives the body the capability to extract the full potential.

“Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.”

I don't have much to add . Many who defend Mourinho said most of what I would say .

All I like to add is that I understand why you hate Mourinho and you calling him names just proves why he is best . Mourinho is such a coach who sacrifices his reputation among football fans , journalists&pundits and coaches just to take off the pressure of the club . And media just fuels it up even more during press conferences so that Pelegrini responds and Wenger responds and it all goes according to the plan for Jose . Managers like him are always hated .

I often compare him to sir alex ferguson , because I hated him just like you all hate Jose . However, later I started to admire him because everything he did for the club has paid off with incredible success . He said arrogant things , he was hypocrite , he insulted , he pressured referees , he intimidated players from opposition teams and etc , but in the end people hated him and United just kept on winning trophies ! As little time passed by after his retirement he is now regarded as one of the best managers football has ever seen .

As far as Wenger I always thought of him as a great financial manager and scout but not football tactician . I always question his strange substituions or line up . Maybe I just don't get it. After all he is the one who is managing Arsenal not me and I am Just a blogger .

I believe Arsenal owners are greedy and run Arsenal as cash a cow and Mr Wenger was always been made as a scapegoat . Still I think Wenger had enough talent in his disposal to win at least some domestic cups if not the league titles for the past 8 years.

All you need to know, proves why the statement i irrelevant.

This is never ending story, it always ends in how Arsenal trophy less is. I will use this maybe more often.

"Life is short and it's better not to embrace negative feelings." - Footaholic 2014

Arsene Wenger: Jose Mourinho has embarrassed Chelsea

"I do not want to go into that silly, disrespectful remark," Wenger told BT Sport.

"I never spoke about him in my press conference and I will not start.

"The only thing I know is it's more embarrassing for Chelsea than for me. I'm embarrassed for him, honestly. I'm not interested in the subject at all. That is really genuine.

"I love football - and I'm sorry to disappoint you - what's interesting for me is what happens on the pitch."

Mourinho has previously criticised Wenger, the Blues boss having described him as a "voyeur" in 2005 after his rival questioned Chelsea's transfer policy.

On Monday he was quoted by several newspapers as saying: "The only thing I feel is that I was very quiet in my place and somebody spoke not in a nice way about us.

"After that, I don't accept that one is always 'Monsieur polite' and the other one is always the bad guy. I don't accept, I'm sorry."

Former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson told BBC Radio 5 live on Sunday that the Portuguese is a "bully" engaging in "boring" mind games.

Wenger's side moved into the FA Cup quarter-finals with victory in an enthralling fifth-round tie on Sunday.

Thats not fair what has been told about Wenger...
Every year, the best players of Arsenal were sold to strenghten rivals and replaced by youth talents recruited brilliantly. And still he qualified to CL every year unlike Liverpool who were the big loosers of City joining Elite clubs.
He could have done better, not denying it, but he gave to Arsenal a stability when they needed it the most, and they were honorable in CL each time they played. The threat of Everton and Spurs appeared in recent years, but he kept the team in a satisfying level...
Mourinho is better at motivating his players, he is the best in the world in human managing.
But Arsene qualities are priceless in a Football world influenced by money....
Mourinho put his career over the club, Arsene put Arsenal before his own career and thats why i will always respect him more as a human. Also, Mourinho would never coach in Arsene conditions, few world class coaches would stay if their 2 best players of each year were living.
And this year results for Arsenal are explained by the stability of the squad, what he is doing with the squad he has in possession is world class.
When Wenger had the best team, he won trophies. And a qualification in CL is way better than winning the FA cup wake up guys ^^. Its a huge financial help, and help the Club in term of image and attractivity, the club was more in a financial policy than in sportive competition and Arsene is giving more than satisfaction, he does not decide what the club thinks and should be recognized for his loyalty in a period the club needed financial stability, Mourinho would have left.
Dortmund is living the same story with Klopp who will see how painful is when your stars of the season cant resist to big clubs call. And Klopp is lucky they had a new stadium for free, if Klopp maintains Dortmund the way Wenger did in Bundesliga and CL, then his direction could be satisfied with him.
Few coaches deserve a statue for what they achieved and what they sacrified for the club, and Arsene is definitely one of them.

@Tiki_Taka I know that Wenger is a respectful manager, but don't tell me that he never bought players and he uses only the academy players, because that's not true. Do a research on how many players Arsene Wenger signed to have this stability and achieve his objectives in which making top 4 and see if it's worth it or not. Even Klopp spent some cash in the recent years to achieve what you mentioned in which he was great as well. As for the football fans it doesn't matter who spend more or less when we are watching an actual football match of 11 vs 11. It's just that some did a good bargains others didn't. Every club in the EPL recently after the FFP and the TV revenue can afford signing players and they do and they did. If Arsene wenger wants to save some cash or make a bad signings, it doesn't make him a genius when he is failing.

@alexbatak Lololololol "bargains" when you see that chelsea has spent 50 times more money on players than arsenal it's not about bargains. So yet again, Lolololololol

@KH I recommend you to read this first "http://footyroom.com/forum/football-talk/emenalos-signings-2011-14-55966"
and also to research how many trophies we won. Yes. That's a bargain.

@Alex He followed the club politics, and being qualified in CL every single year, i dont call it failure.

Arsenal diretion is more responsible of this supposed failure, winning the charity chield or Fa cup does not worth a CL qualification in a financial prospect, and Wenger limited the damage.
Its not that easy to maintain the club level and rank, look at Milan and Inter actual strugle. And its not an easy period to live as a fan for Arsenal ( The most loyal fans btw ), but they couldnt afford make an all in for a silverware and ruin the future. The actual Arsenal is bigger than the Arsenal who was champion, they have more money and a bigger stadium. And they have played one of the most beautiful Football in Europe all those years even if its not an important argument in England.

They would have done more if they could, i cant see them limitting their ambitions just to save money. I dont know much how was their financial statement, but i felt they were doing many sacrifices.
Why would they sign cheap young talents if they had the power to build a monster team with high wages ?

@alex it's not about who finds the best bargains, it's about who has the most money. You link me to a list of the 100+ players you bought in 2 windows. If you spend 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 pounds, I don't care if the players are bargains that's still a shit ton of money other teams don't have. Chelsea and city have the most money, end of the story. If we beat you to the title this season then jose would become the master of all failures, and wenger the official King of kings. And that's all I can wish for.