Jose Mourinho has deemed Bastian Schweinsteiger surplus to requirements at Man United, but with two years left on his three-year contract, the 32-year-old German midfielder reportedly doesn’t want to move, so Mourinho has cast him out into the wilderness of training with the reserves. According to footballer turned lawyer Dejan Stefanovic, who is a member of world players’ union Fifpro, this constitutes bullying and is worthy of a prison sentence for Mourinho.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jose Mourinho warn Pep Guardiola of the impending storm
Hello, Pep. I am Zlatan. Welcome to your worst Zlightmare.
Jose Mourinho makes awkward first visit to Man United’s training complex
Mourinho is here! Watch our new boss arrive at the Aon Training Complex… #WelcomeJose https://t.co/qmBsWqat0u
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) May 30, 2016
With his contract signed, image rights squared away, and new Instagram account pumping out content, Jose Mourinho was all set to check out Manchester United’s Carrington training complex on Monday.
Jose Mourinho leaves his house
Jose Mourinho has left his house. He could be going to sign his Manchester United contract. Or to buy a gift for Louis van Gaal, his dear friend whose job he specifically campaigned for over the last six consecutive months. Is he thinking about which players he will sign? He’s probably contemplating which players he’ll sell. Or maybe he’s thinking about the players he will buy and then sell!
Jose Mourinho stops counter-attack during FIFA legends match
A team of international FIFA legends led by Jose Mourinho faced a Mexican All-Star squad at the Estadio Azteca as part of the FIFA Congress festivities and in this friendly, Mourinho showed that he hasn’t gone soft during his time away from the game since getting sacked by Chelsea.
BREAKING: Jose Mourinho still thinks very highly of himself
If you thought getting sacked by Chelsea for a second time and seeing the team’s uptick in form under Guus Hiddink would have humbled Jose Mourinho, you must not know who we’re talking about.
Ahead of his scheduled visit to the San Siro this weekend to see former club Inter face Sampdoria, Mourinho made it clear that his ego has not been deflated by his current situation.
A prayer from Juan Mata
Jose Mourinho hasn’t joined Manchester United yet, but stories are already being written about him shipping out Juan Mata, as he did at Chelsea in 2014. This is deeply troubling for the Spanish midfielder, so he has turned to the heavens for assistance in this dark time. This is his prayer.
DT Exclusive: Eden Hazard’s apology texts to Jose Mourinho
In an interview with the Guardian, Eden Hazard has revealed that he texted former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho to apologize for his poor form and the role it played in the Portuguese’s sacking. The following is a transcript of that text exchange.
Conspiracy Theory: Rafa Benitez wants to wear Jose Mourinho’s skin
It started innocently enough. Rafa Benitez succeeded his old rival, Jose Mourinho, at Inter in the summer of 2010. After all, there are only so many top jobs in football and there’s a certain logic that says an opening with a club that just won the treble weeks before is impossible for any manager to pass up.
But then, after quickly washing out at Inter and disappearing for two years, Benitez took over Chelsea, the club Mourinho managed when they were direct and frequent adversaries. This was strange. Especially since Benitez had previously said that he wouldn’t work for this club. But, again, there are only so many top jobs and Benitez had to take what he could get in the wake of his swift dismissal at Inter.
Then, after two years with Napoli (perhaps just to throw off the suspicious and put a hiccup in the developing pattern), he somehow fell upward to another one of Mourinho’s former clubs: Real Madrid.
Benitez started both his playing career and managerial career at Real Madrid and it had long been regarded as his dream job, though. A fact that was enough to limit any talk of a dark quest to experience what Jose Mourinho has experienced to jokes and put downs.
Now Benitez is going a step further and saying what Mourinho says, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that his life’s mission is to wear Jose Mourinho’s skin like some kind of Special Onesie.
Jose Mourinho already being welcomed to Man Utd by scarf vendors outside Old Trafford
Louis van Gaal hasn’t been sacked yet, but that hasn’t stopped the unofficial scarf vendors outside Old Trafford from peddling a new Jose Mourinho/Manchester United (or “UNTED” as the scarf above reads) offering ahead of Chelsea’s visit.
Surely Man United CEO Ed Woodward is kicking himself for not getting this product in the club shop before the knockoffs hit the street.
Let’s just hope Juan Mata doesn’t see these.
