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Real Madrid have often tried to hire Mr Pochettino. Tottenham endured a poor start to the season, tumbling to 14th place, but most supporters expected him to turn things around. Nor has his reputation for arrogance, hostility—he once gouged an opposing manager in the eye—and spectacular downfalls. Though most of his tenures have started with great success, including league titles in four different countries and two Champions League trophies, they have usually ended acrimoniously. Most Manchester United fans were relieved when the club sacked him 11 months ago. Spurs fans last saw their club lift a trophy in Perhaps this regular though ungracious winner might bring them glory once again? Mr Mourinho certainly believes he will. But he remains as self-confident as ever. The problem is you never understood that. But will the Humble One actually prod Tottenham to perform at a higher level than their talented players ought to reach? And those who have overachieved at their last club have about the same chance as a coin flip of doing so in their next job. The hand of Poch That assertion seems like heresy to most football fans, who balk at the idea of inexplicable, random patterns. When their team goes on an unforeseen run of wins or losses, they look for a simple cause. Generally, they turn to the person who decides the tactics and selection of players. Now that Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams are seventh in the table, most are calling for his dismissal. Such arguments often include the claim that the manager has lost the backing of his squad. One group of Dutch academics found that clubs which endure such rough patches tend to come through them, regardless of whether they change their coach. Mr Mourinho may receive plenty of credit just for getting Spurs to return to their usually dominant selves, when Mr Pochettino might also have overseen such a turnaround. Because football teams so Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams go through ups and downs—and chairmen fire their coaches with such regularity—measuring long-term managerial performance is tricky. Of the managers to have appeared in that time, Mr Szymanski reckoned only had consistently achieved better results than expected, given their financial resources. Football analysts have only recently developed statistics that can do this for all positions, and such data exists for just the last few seasons. Instead, we turned to an unconventional source: video games. Mr Mourinho would scoff at being evaluated via PlayStation. We fed them into a statistical model, which assigned weights for each position, and created a hypothetical starting 11 plus a couple of substitutes for each club. We then plugged these line-ups into the 38 games a year that clubs play in their domestic leagues. We could not find a readily available database of Champions League matches going back 15 years, but will try to build one in the future. When we simulated entire seasons, we found that our predictions were Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams as good as those made by betting markets. The wisdom of the gambling crowds is the gold standard of forecasting in sports, since punters can price in factors that statisticians overlook. Gamblers on Sporting Index, a website that offers wagers on the final number of points each team will achieve, have had an average error of 7. Our dinky model scored Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams. The data are sobering for believers in managerial omnipotence. This suggests that football managers who are excelling at their clubs cannot control most of the determinants of their success, or replicate them elsewhere. The players clearly make most of the difference. Not quite. We did find a link between overperformance in the past and the future, but it was very weak. Our best guess of his future contribution is therefore roughly 1. For Mr Pochettino, his 2. That is dwarfed by the nine points that Lionel Messi contributes, relative to an average striker. Those fans who still worship Mr Mourinho will find it hard to believe that such a reliable champion adds barely a point per year, and a fifth as much as his new skipper. Perhaps Mr Mourinho will finally deliver the trophies that Spurs fans so desperately want. He has never finished a job without winning at least two of them. Sports Game theory. Reuse this content The Trust Project. Can it keep it up? The best of our journalism, hand-picked each day Sign up to our free daily newsletter, The Economist today Sign up now. Jose mourinho complexity thinking and team building

He is widely considered to be one of the greatest managers of all time, [2] Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams and is one of the most decorated managers ever. After an uneventful career as a midfielder across Portugal's football pyramidMourinho first entered the sphere of management as an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting CP and Portobefore gaining success as an assistant Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams Barcelona under both Robson and his successor, Louis van Gaal. That success earned him a move to England with Chelsea inwhere he won two Premier League titles, a FA Cupand two League Cups in his three seasons at the club, before he departed in amid reports of disagreements with club owner Roman Abramovich. Mourinho left Real Madrid in to rejoin Chelsea, where he won another league title and League Cupbut was dismissed in after a poor run of results. Mourinho wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and joined the Belenenses youth team. Graduating to the senior level, he played at Rio Ave where his father was coachBelenenses, and Sesimbra. He lacked the requisite pace and power to become a professional and chose to focus on Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams a football coach instead. Later he accepted the position of assistant manager at Estrela da Amadora[22] then was a scout at Ovarense. Then, inan opportunity arose to work as a translator for a top foreign coach: Bobby Robson had been appointed as the new manager of Lisbon club Sporting CP and needed an English-speaking local coach to work as his interpreter. Mourinho began discussing tactics and coaching with Robson in his interpreting role. When Porto appointed him as their head coach, Mourinho moved with him, continuing to coach and interpret for players at the new club. After two years at Porto, the duo moved again, joining Barcelona in Robson and Mourinho's styles complemented each other: the Englishman favoured an attacking style, while Mourinho covered defensive options, and the Portuguese's love of planning and training combined Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams Robson's direct man-management. The Barcelona attack was led by a prime Ronaldo — whom Mourinho regards as the best player post-Diego Maradona. One of the most important things I learnt from Bobby Robson is that when you win, you shouldn't assume you are the team, and when you lose, you shouldn't think you are rubbish. He began working with Robson's successor, Louis van Gaaland he learned much from the Dutchman's conscientious style. Both assistant and head coach combined their studious approach to the game and Barcelona won La Liga twice in Van Gaal's first two years as coach. He let Mourinho develop his own independent coaching style and entrusted him with the coaching duties of Barcelona B. The chance to become a top-tier manager arrived in September when Mourinho moved up from his role as assistant manager at Benfica to replace manager Jupp Heynckes after the fourth week of the Primeira Liga. Tell Benfica if they want a first-team coach you will go; if they want an assistant you will stay. Mourinho was highly critical of Ferreira, whom he had first encountered as his teacher at ISEF and later lambasted the veteran coach by stating, "This could be the story of a donkey who worked for 30 years but never became a horse. Such was Robson's desperation for Mourinho to join him he offered to step down after two years Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams charge and hand over the reins to Mourinho. Mourinho turned the offer down and said he knew Robson would never step down at the club he loved. Mourinho and Mozer proved a popular combination, enjoying a 3—0 win against rivals Sporting CP in December. He left the club on 5 December [35] after just nine league games in charge. Upon later reflection, Vilarinho rued his poor judgement and expressed his frustration at losing Mourinho:. Only later I realised that one's personality and pride cannot be put before the interest of the institution we serve. After a 1—1 draw against Santa Clara on 20 JanuaryMourinho recorded eight matches unbeaten in the league six wins, two draws since 25 November Mourinho guided the team to third place that year after a strong game run including 11 wins and gave the Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams of "making Porto champions next year". He recalled captain Jorge Costa after a six-month loan to Charlton Athletic. During the pre-season, Mourinho put detailed reports of the team training on the club website. The physical and combative abilities of the teams' defenders and midfielders allowed Porto to apply pressure from the offensive lines and forced opponents either to concede the ball or try longer, uncertain passes. InMourinho won his first Primeira Liga with a 27—5—2 record, 11 points clear of Benfica, the team he quit two years earlier. The total of 86 points out of the possible maximum of was a Portuguese record, until the —16 season won by Benfica 88 pointssince the rule of three points per win was introduced. The following Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams witnessed further successes: he led Porto to victory in the one-match Portuguese Super Cupbeating Leiria 1—0. The team was dominant in the Primeira Liga and finished the season with a perfect home record, an eight-point advantage, and an unbeaten run that only ended against Gil Vicente ; they secured the title five weeks before the end of the season. Mourinho flamboyantly celebrated the goal by leaving his dugout, fists punching the air as he sprinted down the sideline near to his celebrating players — this dramatic celebration is regarded as the moment when Mourinho announced himself to the game. Inafter Chelsea clinched the Premier League title, Ferguson had his players form a guard of honour at Chelsea's next game at Old Trafford, Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams a favour that Mourinho returned in at Stamford Bridge after Ferguson's squad were confirmed league champions. Liverpool are a team that interests everyone and Chelsea does not interest me so much because it is a new project with lots of money invested in it. I think it is a project which, if the club fail to win everything, then [Roman] Abramovich could retire and take the money out of the club. It's an uncertain project. It is interesting for a coach to have the money to hire quality players but you never know if a project like this will bring success. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one. This comment resulted in the media dubbing him "The Special One". He retained Steve Clarkea long-serving former player at Chelsea, who had also performed an assistant managerial-type role under previous managers at the club. Under Mourinho, Chelsea built on the potential developed in the previous season. By early December, they were at the top of the Premier League table and had reached the knock-out stages of the Champions League. Towards the end of the match, Mourinho was escorted from the touchline after putting his finger to his mouth in the direction of Liverpool fans, as a response to taunts directed towards him whilst Liverpool were leading, before the equalising goal. Chelsea met Barcelona in the Champions League round of 16, a highly contested match where the Blues lost away in the first leg 2—1 but advanced on aggregate, winning at home 4—2. Mourinho missed the chance of back-to-back Champions League successes when Chelsea were knocked out of the competition by Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams controversial goal in the semi-finals by eventual winners Liverpool. Under Mourinho, Chelsea secured their first top-flight domestic Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams in 50 years, setting a string of English football records in the process, including the most points ever achieved in the Premier League 95 and the fewest goals conceded Chelsea started the next season well: they defeated Arsenal Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams to win the FA Community Shieldand topped the Premier League from the first weekend of the —06 season. Chelsea beat rivals Manchester United 3—0 to win their second consecutive Premier League title and Mourinho's fourth domestic title in a row. After the presentation of his championship medal, Mourinho threw his medal and blazer into the crowd. He was awarded a Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams medal within minutes, which he also threw into the crowd. The —07 season saw growing media speculation that Mourinho would leave the club at the season's conclusion, due to alleged poor relations with owner Roman Abramovich and a power struggle with sporting director Frank Arnesen and Abramovich advisor Piet de Visser. Mourinho later cleared doubts regarding his future at Stamford Bridge, stating that there would only be two ways Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams him to leave Chelsea: if Chelsea were not to offer him a new contract in Juneand if Chelsea were to sack him. The signing of Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko in the summer of for a club record fee would Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams prove to be a point of contention between Mourinho and Abramovich. Chelsea had attempted to sign Shevchenko in the preceding two years but Milan rebuffed Abramovich's interest in him. Shevchenko's first season at Chelsea was viewed as a major disappointment by the Chelsea fans, as he only scored four league goals and 14 in all competitions. Shevchenko's strike partner, Didier Drogba, had the highest scoring season of his career that year and this led Shevchenko to be dropped from the starting line-up towards the end of the season by Mourinho. Notably, in the Champions League semi-final match against Liverpool at AnfieldShevchenko was not even included on the bench. Abramovich's insistence on Mourinho playing the Ukrainian was widely viewed as a further source of friction between the two men. The possibility, however, of the quadruple was brought to an end on 1 May when Liverpool eliminated Chelsea from the Champions League on penalties at Anfield, following a 1—1 aggregate draw. This was Mourinho's first season without a league title win in five years. This was his first FA Cup win which meant that he had won every domestic trophy available to a Premier League manager. There was, however, to be further friction between Mourinho and Abramovich when Avram Grant was appointed as director of football, despite objections from Mourinho. Grant's position was further enhanced by being given a seat on the board. In Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams of these tensions, the —08 transfer season would see the departure of Dutch winger Arjen Robben to Real Madrid and the arrival of French midfielder Florent Malouda from Lyon. In the first match of the —08 seasonChelsea beat Birmingham City 3—2 to set a new record of 64 consecutive home league matches without defeat. Despite surpassing the record set by Liverpool between and[53] the start to the —08 Chelsea season was less successful than previous starts. The team lost at Aston Villa and followed this with a goalless draw at home to Blackburn Rovers. Their opening game in the UEFA Champions League saw them only manage a 1—1 home draw against the Norwegian team Rosenborg BK in front of only 24, an almost half-empty stadium which included an unimpressed owner Roman Abramovich. Mourinho unexpectedly left Chelsea on 20 September "by mutual consent", although there had been a series of disagreements with owner Abramovich. Mourinho left as the most successful manager in Chelsea's history, having won six trophies for the club in three years. He was also undefeated in all home league games. Avram Grant succeeded Mourinho as Chelsea manager but failed to win any trophies in his year in charge and would be sacked at the end of the —08 season. Grant's squad managed to reach the final of the Champions League something Mourinho failed to achieve in his three years at Chelseareach the final of the League Cup and maintained the unbeaten home streak at Stamford Bridge. Grant's Chelsea also finished second in the Premier League. On 2 JuneMourinho was appointed the successor of Roberto Mancini at Inter Milan on a three-year contract, and brought along with him much of his backroom staff who had served him at both Chelsea and Porto. In his first season as Inter head coach, Mourinho won the Supercoppa Italianabeating Roma on penalties, Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams and finished top of Serie A. Inter, however, were eliminated 2—0 on aggregate by Manchester United in the first knock-out round of the Champions Leagueand he also failed to win the Coppa Italiabeing defeated 3—1 on aggregate by Sampdoria in the semi-finals. Both teenagers played a part in the Scudetto -winning season and played enough games to earn their first senior trophy. Despite his domestic successes in winning the Scudetto by a point margin, Mourinho's first season in Italy was viewed as disappointing by some Inter fans, as the club failed to improve on the performances of his predecessor Roberto Mancini in the Champions League. Inter put in a series of lacklustre group stage performances that included a shock 1—0 home loss to Panathinaikos and an away draw with Cypriot minnows Anorthosis Famagusta. Inter qualified, however, for the knockout stages of the Champions League but failed to make it to the quarter-finals after being defeated by Manchester United. Mourinho also caused immediate ripples in Italian football through his controversial relationships with the Italian press and media, as well as his feuds with major Serie A coaches, including Carlo Ancelottithen of Milan, Luciano Spalletti Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams Roma and Claudio Ranieri of Juventus. At a press conference in Marchhe insulted the first two rivals by claiming they would end the season with no honours, and accused the Italian sport journalists of "intellectual prostitution" on their behalf. It also became the title's catchphrase used by fans to celebrate Inter's 17th Scudetto later that season. This loss left the Nerazzurri seven points above their crosstown rivals with only two games remaining. They would eventually finish 10 points clear of Milan. On 28 JulyMourinho was reported to have shown interest in taking over at Manchester United when Alex Ferguson retired. He was quoted as saying, "I would consider going to Manchester United but United have to consider if they want me to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson. If they do, then of course. Figo was on the verge of leaving Inter under Mancini due to a lack of playing time, but in his final season Mourinho used him frequently. Mourinho signed Argentine striker Diego Militowho fell just one goal short of winning the top scorer award with Genoaas well as Thiago Motta and Wesley Sneijderto bolster the midfield. This transfer was the second most expensive in the history of the transfer market, after Cristiano Ronaldo moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid earlier in the summer. Eto'o got off to a promising start with Inter by scoring two goals in the first two matches of the season. Ricardo Quaresma's signing from Mourinho's old club Porto was viewed as a missing link in the Inter squad, but his play disappointed the club and led him to be loaned off to Chelsea midway through the season, ironically Mourinho's other former club. 10 ways to lead your team like Jose Mourinho leads Chelsea | Creative Boom

The British football media often cast continental opposition as either dangerous bruisers or walkover Johnny Foreigners — but there was something a bit different at play here. By the end of that game, English football had been rocked. The image of Jose pelting it up the Old Trafford touchline, fists in the air, Prada coat flapping in the wind, was instantly transmitted around the world. His Porto team continued their form all the way to the podium, dispatching an equally fancied Monaco team with ease in the final. Mourinho had reached the pinnacle of European football with a team that appeared to be in the right place at the right time — a perfectly-balanced combination of unknown quantities, future superstars and last-chance saloon patrons that have been hallmarks of every surprise package from Leicester to Ajax and beyond. That summer, 15 years ago, was one that would shape my footballing life to come — for better or for worse. Seeing Mourinho for the first time, charming the cameras with his grandiose statements and coquettish misinformation, was a feeling I can only liken to seeing your next nightmare ex across a crowded room. Of course, he was always off to Chelsea — the appointment was a perfect synergy between club and manager, money and ambition, man and moment. The name, the locale, and the recently-acquired big-stage clout all suited this former PE teacher from Setubal to a tee. From a caravan park in Brittany, I remember keeping abreast of the latest stories as they appeared on France 24 and in day-old English newspapers. They enjoyed the natural Brian Clough comparisons, and the endorsement from the man himself. Even more excitingly for me, he was signing some of his successful Porto players, including indomitable central defender Ricardo Carvalho. He also acquired Didier Drogba, the butcher of Marseille, and a young Dutchman called Arjen Robben who was supposed to be quite good. Mourinho soon set about English football like the Red Army marching through Smolensk. Manchester United, already rattled by him in the Champions League, were unable to cope with another viable Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams contender. They lost their opening game of the season to an Eidur Gudjohnsen goal at Stamford Bridge and finished 3rd, 18 points behind the Blues. Drogba failed to convince in his debut season, Mateja Kezman was useless and the football was about as liquid as a Calippo at the bottom of a Londis fridge. However, the tenacity and physicality of that team was near-impossible to best. Captain John Terry later shed some light on the methods their incredible match fitness Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams built on. If there was a bad pass or Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams bad roll from one of his staff, he would stop the session and go berserk. It might have been football, but it was played with such feeling, such intensity, that the tackles felt like goals anyway. He smashes the whole place up and then we go back out and get the win. He was, quite simply, on one. Looking back at it all now, it was some time to be a year-old Chelsea supporter, yet its legacy is hard to contend with now the dust has settled and the game has changed. That season, that brand of football and that way of looking at the game would never leave me. Because it was so potent, because it happened at such an impressionable time in my life, it formed the basis of my football understanding, even as that became more of a minority view. To be honest, I never really saw the point of Xavi. There will always be an inherent violence to my football, because I was raised with the pure ideology of Mourinho. It was even more distressing when Nagelsmann was linked with the Chelsea job. Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams many Blues fans, the inherent distrust of Maurizio Sarri was birthed here. The Italian was about as far away from the Mourinho ideal as you can be without being Nagelsmann. They only really beat sides they should beat and he conducted his post-match press conferences with all the candour of a mafia accountant in court. Sarri appointed a fairly lightweight sideways pass merchant in his old Napoli favourite Jorginho, where once there was Claude Makelele. It may sound quite reductive, and in many ways it is, but everyone needs Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams to believe in. Being a disciple of Mourinho and a follower of the modern game is a frustrating experience, not unlike being a Liberal Democrat or Metric Martyr. Quite simply, the values you believe in are just deeply unfashionable. Watching Manchester City and Liverpool change the way the league plays is like seeing the Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams money tree build new hospitals when you were brought up to believe in austerity. As we later saw, the Mourinho belief system presents a number of problems, chief among them the man himself. In fact, it arguably ranks as one of the most painful managerial reigns ever; a protracted saga of minor trophy wins, ideological impotence and Scott McTominay. But after a few years looking like a divorcing stockbroker, living in a hotel and single-handedly trying to destroy the concept of the influencer- footballer, Mourinho eventually returned to somewhere near his best. Not in the dugout but the studio, where his lucrative appearances have become must-watches. Mauricio Pochettino has left a great legacy at Tottenham. Spurs now have two options to build on it. Still, this was a stark contrast to his previous psychic smoke signals towards Klopp, making the German out as a buffoon and mimicking his gesticulations. Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams way Jurgen has charmed the English media — swearing in his post- match interviews, taking everything on his shoulders and letting the players play — is straight out of the early-Mourinho playbook. Klopp just carries it out in a smiley, upswing way, whereas the wrongs of Jose loom far larger than his rights in our collective memory. The Portuguese is often cast as a grumpy, problematic, argument-prone alpha, and there are many examples to suggest he is. But he is also charming, honest, revolutionary and loved by those who believe in the way that he looks at things. This feature originally appeared in the August issue of FourFourTwo magazine. Subscribe today! Can you name every Premier League team's last three captains? 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