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The people who have had verbal battles with Mourinho may have the most say about how powerful Mourinho's mouth is. From Portugal to England, this guy has caused trouble more than once or twice, but many times this guy does not take the initiative to cause trouble, but sometimes he needs to use this method to attract firepower.

If you are familiar with him, you will find that this guy talks the most, basically before the start of the war. Once those reporters focus on Chelsea, Mourinho will stand up very promptly and use his sharp words to attract everyone's attention.

Doing so is to prevent those reporters from harassing their players and give them a quiet space to prepare for the game. However, this guy has basically never lost the battle of words with the opposing players or coaches, and even old sly guys like Wenger and Ferguson have never taken advantage of him.

Before the confrontation with Manchester United and Arsenal last season, Ferguson and Wenger tried to interfere with Mourinho, the newcomer, by means of verbal battles. Of course, the facts ultimately proved that this method was ineffective.

Since Mourinho was an assistant coach and translator in Barcelona, ​​his mouth has become mean enough, and his mind is very fast, don't try to set any traps for him.

Even those shrewd reporters can't get any advantage in front of Mourinho.

Most of the time, they are led by Mourinho, and the only thing these guys can do is to record every word the Portuguese said and print it out for publication.

However, Mourinho rarely disappoints people. As long as it is before the start of a big game, he will always speak. At least those reporters who earn money by writing news will always expect him to take the initiative to provoke a war.

But since the start of the new season, Mourinho rarely speaks, especially when Chelsea's record is soaring, he seems very quiet, and this silence makes many reporters a little uncomfortable. They really hope to get some explosive points out of Mourinho's mouth.

Unfortunately, Mourinho is not used to serving reporters. With Chelsea's performance steadily advancing, he doesn't want to be distracted by those verbal battles, but Mourinho forgot one thing. If you live in this circle, you must not expect to live a stable life.

You don't provoke others, but it is very likely that they will take the initiative to provoke you. Although those people may not be intentional, the unintentional behavior is sometimes more hateful, just like when Chelsea was attacking on four fronts and starting a large-scale war, some people seemed to be deliberately causing trouble for him.

When you are on a winning streak, some people will speculate when you will start to lose, collapse, and go downhill. Even bookmakers will open bets at the right time to bet on when you will be dismissed.

This is England. Nothing is impossible. Even gossip such as the crown prince of the Kingdom of Great Britain looking for a mistress can be exposed. What bottom line do you expect those who make news have?

Come on, in England, as long as someone likes to watch gossip farces, someone will perform for you.

Even in the Premier League, which is already the top league in the football world, there are all kinds of bloody things happening. Chelsea is watched by people only because they are the most popular now.

In the past, this patent belonged to Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool. Now it is just Chelsea's turn to enjoy the treatment of being watched by tens of millions of people. You can only bear it.

Mourinho is not pursuing any so-called records by grabbing victory so frantically at the beginning of the new season. This guy knows how heavy the game tasks of Chelsea this season are, and there are also some international match days in the middle of the league, which will definitely affect the team.

There is no way. This is a problem that every giant team has to face. After all, when the World Cup qualifiers reach the final stage of the struggle, it is estimated that no national team will give up the opportunity to chase the quota. Even those weak small countries will try to get one or two victories at the last minute to cover up their shame.

The giants who originally had the task of the Champions League often had to face the entanglement of two games a week, and then there was the harassment of this international match day. Sometimes the players' state fluctuated and fluctuated, which would disrupt the coach's arrangement. Mourinho made such an effort to grab points in the early stage to prevent this situation from happening.

After all, long-distance flights always cause problems for the players' physical fitness. When the summer training camp was already disrupted, such physical consumption would cause many players to suffer unnecessary fatigue injuries.

After all, Chelsea has to keep pace on multiple fronts, and injuries have become the most fatal constraint.

The most feared thing for a multinational force like Chelsea is to encounter an international match day. Once it happens, almost the entire team will be drawn out. Mourinho encountered such a situation last season. During the summer training camp this season, it was also a bit scattered because of the national team's games.

Many players' physical reserves are not in place, which is why Chelsea grabbed points in the early stage.

If Chelsea cannot gap up from its pursuers at the beginning, then physical fitness will become a fatal flaw when the games become intensive in the later stages. Mourinho does not want to see himself being reversed by others.

Chelsea didn't have so many troubles last season. After all, most of the players they bought were members of the national team. But without experiencing such a Triple Crown, they are not yet the absolute main force.

But after Chelsea won the title in the third line, Mourinho's players have become a hot commodity. No matter which national team they are, Chelsea players must be regarded as a life-saving straw.

Even Parker and Thiago, who left Chelsea, were selected by their respective national teams.

You can imagine what kind of treatment Chelsea's main players will receive. People like Robben have already secured their positions as the main players of the national team. Even if they want to refuse, they can't.

Mourinho doesn't have time to care about the meaning of those national team games to himself. After all, he is not the head coach of those national teams. He only needs to be responsible to Chelsea fans and senior management, so he is very important to the national team. There is an indescribable feeling of disgust about this kind of conscription.

After all, the soldiers he brought were recruited. No one knows how well those coaches can be used. If unnecessary injuries occur, Chelsea will be the unlucky one in the end.

But what should come will eventually come. After Chelsea won 11 consecutive league victories and five consecutive victories in the Champions League, the international match day arrived as scheduled, and Mourinho had to watch his players return to their countries. During the team's long journey, the team's main lineup was almost completely depleted, except for the injured.

But just when Mourinho was upset, there were some ignorant guys who always came to arouse his anger. The idiot Domenech was obviously such an idiot. He summoned the veteran Makelele. Order, in exchange for Mourinho's angry counterattack against the French team.

"My players are like slaves! In order not to be banned from the club, they can only return to the national team unconditionally. For someone who has publicly stated that he wants to quit the national team, the national team coach is now like It's a devil driving them to the field with a whip!"

These words were indeed fierce enough, and Mourinho did not intend to save any face for Domenech. Even when faced with a second questioning by a French reporter, he expressed his dissatisfaction again in the same language. The guy's first shot of the season was reserved for the French national team.

And not only did they angrily denounce Domenech's domineering behavior, but they also brought the French Football Association on board.

It’s no wonder that Mourinho is so angry. Makelele is 32 years old. At his age, his physical fitness has begun to decline. If it were not to make up for the injury risk that Chelsea’s midfielder may face, Mourinho would also Kenyon would not be allowed to sign Essien at such a high price as a backup.

However, Makelele has always been able to maintain his efficiency, which is one of the reasons why Essien missed the main team. The professionalism of the French midfielder in the position is something Mourinho has always admired.

And this guy has indeed become a meat grinder for Chelsea in the middle, often able to crush the performance of the opponent's midfielder. With his midfield iron gate, the Blues' middle defense can always be so strong.

Originally, Makelele himself said that after participating in the 2006 World Cup, he would choose to retire, or for the benefit of Chelsea, he would separate from the French national team as soon as possible.

After all, such a two-way journey is indeed a bit hard and torturous for a veteran in his thirties. In the national team, Makelele has also been criticized and is not the absolute core.

In particular, many French people have been advocating that veterans should make way for newcomers. Players of Makelele's age have naturally become the targets that newcomers want to replace, and he himself knows it very well.

Originally, Makelele had an old ankle injury this time and wanted to take advantage of the international match day to take a rest.

But Domenech did not give the veteran a chance to rest. With the French team still in danger of qualifying, Domenech hoped that every main player must be in place to make a last-ditch effort for the right to qualify.

Domenech is now a concrete manifestation of cramming. There is no way, who made this guy's too radical replacement disrupt the French team's early lock in the qualifying spot during the group stage. Now he can only rely on Zidane. The veterans came to his rescue and secured his position as national team coach.

After winning the World Cup and European Cup, French fans have long been very naughty. Now the pressure Domenech faces is the country built by his predecessor. Regardless of whether it was the glory of the past, French fans now The last thing you want to see is the demise of the national team.

The French team's exit from the group stage of the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan has made the French team the laughing stock of other teams. The results of the 2004 European Cup are also unsatisfactory. If Domenech cannot even make it out of the qualifiers this time, then what awaits him It is likely to be the result of numerous media bombardments and even verbal and written criticism.

With the last two rounds of the group stage left, Domenech did not dare to relax at all. He even had to ensure victory in these two games in order for the French national team to directly obtain World Cup tickets without participating in the play-offs. In this urgent situation, he will not give up any main force at all.

Although Makelele requested a truce, Domenech did not give Makelele this opportunity. He said very directly in his reply that if Makelele refuses to play, then he is likely to follow FIFA regulations. If a player refuses to play for the national team, it will affect the club.

If the player refuses the call of the national team, according to FIFA regulations, the player is likely to face a suspension from the club game. If the national team suspends one game, the club will be suspended for two games. Such an unkind act. Regulations have now become Domenech's sword of choice.

Domenech's unkind behavior not only made Makelele a little depressed, but also angered the fiery Mourinho. He issued sharp comments to the outside world, believing that the behavior of Domenech and the French Football Association did not Human rights also use team members as "slaves".

Although Makelele could only return to the national team with an old injury in order not to delay more club games, the war of words between Chelsea and the French national team has not ended. Faced with Mourinho's anger, Domene That guy was so naive that he wanted to fight back in the media.

Just one day after Mourinho's "slave theory" was introduced, the French team's head coach Domenech responded to Mourinho's criticism of him in a mocking way in front of the media, and elevated the controversy to the club and the The "theoretical height" of the national team conflict, he did not think he was wrong at all.

"Yeah! Makelele is a slave, I have a whip in my hand, he will go wherever I point." Domenech's opening remarks seemed to be a joke, but this kind of ridicule was also in response to Mourinho's response to From his own accusation, it was obvious that this stubborn guy considered it a slander.

But apart from joking, Domenech also said seriously that this is actually not a simple problem between Makelele and Chelsea Club, but a manifestation of the conflict between the national team and the club. Now FIFA's regulations side with the national team. On the one hand, it is to ensure the quality of international competitions.

Only international competitions such as the World Cup and European Championships can allow fans to enjoy more exciting confrontations. If one day this rule is completely abolished, perhaps the only international competitions will be the World Club Champions League. Those super giants will With greater power, it becomes more difficult to suppress.

It is estimated that FIFA set such rules in the first place to suppress those wealthy clubs.

Blatter's cunning old men don't want to watch the giants of the five major leagues grow bigger little by little, and then finally gain an absolute advantage in the power struggle, and maybe even ride on their own heads.

At least such rules can win benefits for the national team to a certain extent and balance those disputes.

The club has always had disagreements on issues such as whether to release players. However, "I have a whip in my hand" and Chelsea Club has other pressure methods. Anyway, Makélélé can only "bear it".

At least until he retires from the French national team, he must listen to every call from the national team.

With FIFA regulations in hand, Domenech doesn't seem to be afraid of such a battle. Anyway, this guy is determined to fight Mourinho to the death. At least for him now, every main player Players are all he needs, regardless of whether the player is actually able to play.

If things haven't reached a climax at this point, then Makelele's injury in the national team game completely pissed Mourinho off. Returning to the team with an injury was enough to make Mourinho depressed. Now that Makelele's old injury has recurred, he is even more angry.

"Why should the club be responsible for the player's salary, but the injury caused by the national team has to be paid by the club? Should the national team be responsible for such injuries? Including all expenses incurred by the player during the off-season!" Mourinho and Chelsea The club's statement was widely criticized.

Injuring his main defensive midfielder, you can imagine how angry Mourinho is now. At this time, he doesn't care how much trouble this bombardment will cause. Anyway, there can be no relationship between him and Domenech. It's relieved, but let the team members go into battle with injuries, damn, this idiot!

And this is not the only trouble Chelsea has to face now. Makelele's injury has disrupted Mourinho's tactical arrangements. Although Essien can take over Makelele's position, the pressure of multi-line operations cannot be fully fulfilled. Pressing on one person, now Chelsea has to be prepared with multiple hands.

Makelele's injury may be a bad start. Lampard, Gerrard and Ashley Cole, who represented England, also had some muscle fatigue because they fought too hard, especially Lampard. , this guy had a slight strain on his right thigh muscle in order to score a goal.

The only good news may still come from Portugal. After ensuring that the team can qualify, Scolari did not continue to let Lin Yi start the game, but only stayed on the bench as an emergency backup option. He and Ronaldo were in good form and successfully won the away game.

However, Chelsea lost a lot of troops on one international match day, which made Mourinho very angry. The advantages accumulated by the team in the early stage may have been disrupted by such a bad schedule. If so, he and There really is a fight to the death between Domenech.

Before November is about to begin, the smooth journey ahead of Chelsea has begun to become a bit thorny. Many media are predicting that perhaps Chelsea will suffer its first defeat of the season in the near future. , this kind of personnel attrition will make Chelsea's defense of the title difficult.

In the next Champions League match, Chelsea seemed to be fulfilling such speculation. When they played against PSV Eindhoven, they failed to maintain the undefeated record of the first five games and only achieved a draw. In addition, the performance and state of the players began to be less crazy and sharp than in the previous stage.

"Chelsea's overexertion in the first half has begun to show the lack of follow-up power of this sprint."

Such comments were placed on Mourinho's desk, but the Portuguese did not frown, but was concentrating on the final list of the top 16 of the Champions League. . .

The most important battlefield is still there. A group match is not worth making a fuss about. . . .

Chelsea is just waiting for the next opponent in silence. . .