It’s been said time and time again, but no matter the mess he leaves at a club when he either gets sacked or moves on, José Mourinho will always have some players in the squad on his side, and Thiago Motta is one of them from their time at Inter together.
Winning the treble in Italy, there remains a special aura around the Special One in Milan for what he achieved, loved by the Interistas, and hated by everyone else, as Manchester United’s most recent Champions League game against Juventus showed.
With Motta trying to give management a go, currently with Paris Saint-Germain’s U19s, Gazzetta dello Sport asked him about a variety of his colleagues, including Mourinho.
He replied: “He’s a winner. In his head, there’s only one goal: winning. Entertaining doesn’t interest him. Mourinho has two sides: one happy when he wins, one pissed off when he loses. His mood changes depending on the result. If the team plays well, but loses, he can’t find anything positive.
“But if he wins playing badly, he’s overjoyed. Mourinho doesn’t look for beauty, he looks for an enemy. If he doesn’t have one, he’ll create one. With Inter, we had an 11 point lead in the league, we lost a game and then drew one. The Monday, he held a 15 minute press conference where he attacked everyone: Galliani, Milan, Roma, the referees, Juve. He needed to refresh the atmosphere.”
Thinking about it, this is a tactic we’ve seen the Manchester United manager use time and time again over the years, trying to shift the subject of headlines written about his team.
It seems he’s happy for them to be about him, taking all of the flack, rather than have the media have a go at his players for their performances on the pitch.
As for the winning ugly statement, well, Manchester United fans know all about that, but the winning part appears to have somewhat been forgotten of late.
