I know im gettin downvoted by fans that started watching Real Madrid in his era but seeing Mourinho in that list is painful. Its a fucking joke and also a disrespect to other Real Madrid mánagers of the past.
1 liga and 1 Copa del Rey is the bare minimum at Real Madrid, nothing to brag about. Capello won 2 Ligas and didnt made the list. Heynckes won an UCL, also not on the list.
With Mourinho, Madrid went from getting eliminated from CL to teams like Lyon, to reach semi finals every single season. He brought winning mentality to the team, and he brought players like Modric and Varane, that no one had any belief in. He fought with probably the best Barca team ever and he came out as the winner in the end. Yes with him he also brought a lot of drama, but if it was not for him, creating a winning team, i also dont think we would have had such a great team for the past 10 years.
interesting how 3/5 of them are from the last decade.
Before I even read the Article, I say DelBosque, Ancelotti, Zidane, and Migel Munoz, in no particular order. I can’t settle on a 5th.
This is an incredible superficial and bad article, the recency bias being its least problem.
OP are you the author? If you work on something like this, you need a better line of argument than ‘he won x titles’ and should, as the absolute bare minimum, include some lines about their football and how they approached the game and their squads.
Mourinho was what we needed at the time. The necessary evil willing to do whatever it took, selling his and our soul to the devil to take down the greatest Barcelona generation ever.
He succeeded. New fans don’t remember how painful it was every time we played Barcelona back then. Utter humiliations.
Zinidine Zidane
Carlo Ancelotti
Miguel Munoz
Vincente Del Bosque
Occupies top 4 positions (order can vary).
5th will be subjective.
We have Mou who actually played an important role in starting the post 2010 revolution. Would we win all the trophies without him? Chances are less.
We have Molowny who defined the era between the 1966 and 1998 UCL triumphs.
We have Villalonga who started it all.
Mourinho made possible what Anchelotti and Zidane achieved later. He went against possibly the beat barca team ever and gave us the winning mentality that was lacking in the years before.
Sometimes just looking at trophies is not telling the entire picture and comparing him to Capello is severely underestimating what he did for the team and the players.
Capello had a dream team to work with and Mourinho came to a team that was broken and lacking character
People forget Mourihno is part of the reason the club slowly started rebuilding itself and progressing. We were going through a massive trophy drought and were just getting eliminated quickly but with Mourihno we were improving greatly. It is sad we didn’t win the ucl under him but at the same time he set the foundation that led to Ancelotti and Zidane to triumph. Also I think Del Bosque deserves recognition as well due that he also helped the club win two Champions League Finals in 2000 and 2002, something that is impressive but sadly Perez fired him .
Zidane and Ancelotti eras were most fun. But with Mou it was a different kind of enjoyment, every game and derby seemed to matter and was intensified
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I know im gettin downvoted by fans that started watching Real Madrid in his era but seeing Mourinho in that list is painful. Its a fucking joke and also a disrespect to other Real Madrid mánagers of the past.
1 liga and 1 Copa del Rey is the bare minimum at Real Madrid, nothing to brag about. Capello won 2 Ligas and didnt made the list. Heynckes won an UCL, also not on the list.
With Mourinho, Madrid went from getting eliminated from CL to teams like Lyon, to reach semi finals every single season. He brought winning mentality to the team, and he brought players like Modric and Varane, that no one had any belief in. He fought with probably the best Barca team ever and he came out as the winner in the end. Yes with him he also brought a lot of drama, but if it was not for him, creating a winning team, i also dont think we would have had such a great team for the past 10 years.
interesting how 3/5 of them are from the last decade.
Before I even read the Article, I say DelBosque, Ancelotti, Zidane, and Migel Munoz, in no particular order. I can’t settle on a 5th.
This is an incredible superficial and bad article, the recency bias being its least problem.
OP are you the author? If you work on something like this, you need a better line of argument than ‘he won x titles’ and should, as the absolute bare minimum, include some lines about their football and how they approached the game and their squads.
Mourinho was what we needed at the time. The necessary evil willing to do whatever it took, selling his and our soul to the devil to take down the greatest Barcelona generation ever.
He succeeded. New fans don’t remember how painful it was every time we played Barcelona back then. Utter humiliations.
Zinidine Zidane
Carlo Ancelotti
Miguel Munoz
Vincente Del Bosque
Occupies top 4 positions (order can vary).
5th will be subjective.
We have Mou who actually played an important role in starting the post 2010 revolution. Would we win all the trophies without him? Chances are less.
We have Molowny who defined the era between the 1966 and 1998 UCL triumphs.
We have Villalonga who started it all.
Mourinho made possible what Anchelotti and Zidane achieved later. He went against possibly the beat barca team ever and gave us the winning mentality that was lacking in the years before.
Sometimes just looking at trophies is not telling the entire picture and comparing him to Capello is severely underestimating what he did for the team and the players.
Capello had a dream team to work with and Mourinho came to a team that was broken and lacking character
People forget Mourihno is part of the reason the club slowly started rebuilding itself and progressing. We were going through a massive trophy drought and were just getting eliminated quickly but with Mourihno we were improving greatly. It is sad we didn’t win the ucl under him but at the same time he set the foundation that led to Ancelotti and Zidane to triumph. Also I think Del Bosque deserves recognition as well due that he also helped the club win two Champions League Finals in 2000 and 2002, something that is impressive but sadly Perez fired him .
Zidane and Ancelotti eras were most fun. But with Mou it was a different kind of enjoyment, every game and derby seemed to matter and was intensified