Mourinho, who has never integrated into the city of Rome, leaves only sooner or later
In his third season in charge of Roma, Mourinho did not escape the fate of being sacked. Roma also officially announced the return of the former famous De Rossi four hours after his departure.
Mu three years became a proverb again.
Football coaches are also in the workplace, but when they are fired, it must be because their work performance does not meet the expectations of the owner. Friedkin flew from the United States to Rome to oust Mourinho, proving that in the eyes of the owner, Mourinho's achievements have reached the point of intolerability.
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This result is also unbearable for the fans who follow Mourinho. The reason they gave was that in Rome's current mess, Friedkin's input and output requirements were completely disproportionate, and the mean face of the Americans as the first party was outlined as extremely ugly. The most representative voice undoubtedly came from Capello, who knows both Italian football and the club of Rome: "American capital does not know how to respect. From Maldini in Milan to Jose Mourinho in Rome, they don't understand the sensitivity of human nature and only have business in their eyes. ”
Although some public opinion believes that the UEFA Cup does not have much competitive gold content, as an official event recognized by UEFA, Roma has taken advantage of the situation to complete a breakthrough in European honor.
His peers are the ones who can best understand Mourinho's suffering. Roma's reputation in the Apennines is based on the culture of a group of loyal players such as Antonio Conte, Totti and De Rossi, rather than athletic success. By this standard, Mourinho's two-and-a-half-year tenure can at least give him a passing grade. The glory of the UEFA Europa League is purely chicken ribs in the eyes of some people, but at least it fills the gap in the glory of the Roma on the European stage, and the Europa League to the final shows that Mourinho's ability to excel in the cup has not been lost at all.
In fact, the Europa League final against Sevilla has already shown that Roma and the king of the Europa League are not in the same class in terms of strength. This has become an important affirmation of Mourinho's coaching ability by his supporters: give Mourinho a little more support, maybe he will be able to bring Roma on the right track?
From his ambitions at Roma to his current cautiousness, the parting of ways between Friedkin and Mourinho has been accompanied by a growing understanding of the European and Italian football investment climate by American capital.
What's more, Friedkin accused Mourinho of failing to meet on all three fronts this season, and it looks like a bit of a double standard. He threw all the boards on Mourinho, but forgot that he had just bought Roma with the ambition of "making Serie A's revenue and brand value surpass that of the Premier League". Fans took the American consortium's transfer market income of more than 70 million euros this summer, and decided that Roma's investment was not enough, although it was not one-sided, but it unexpectedly hit the loophole in Friedkin's words. Throughout the 2023 summer window, the overall investment of Serie A teams is not large, only AC Milan, Napoli and Juventus have invested more than income, and Inter Milan, which is at the top of the list, has made 68 million euros through the transfer window, and has also thrown off the salary burden of Lukaku, which is different from the overall investment of 2.8 billion euros in the Premier League. Friedkin's so-called "Serie A surpasses the Premier League" is not possible to be realized in the short term, and even from the characteristics of capital accumulation, it is just Friedkin's empty mouth that does not understand the background of European football.
As the boss, Friedkin could not admit that there was a mistake in his original cognition, and he could only correct the deviation from the adjustment of the subordinate team. Breaking up with manager Pinto and coach Mourinho, and inviting De Rossi, who only has experience in leading the team in Serie C, to return to the city, Friedkin has actually broken his original perception and initially figured out how to invest in football in Italy: make more use of the football culture atmosphere of Rome City, which emphasizes loyalty and enthusiasm, take advantage of the club's youth training, and take the internal development path of low-cost investment. Since this is the way to go, Mourinho doesn't need it.
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Despite not paying the transfer fee directly, Roma have paid a lot of money for the arrival of Dybala and Romelu Lukaku in the form of a waiver. Mourinho's remarks that "7 million transfer investment wants to enter the Champions League" are biased.
Of course, the dismissal of Pinto and Mourinho was not entirely due to Friedkin's self-defeating and change in his strategy for the club's development. As club management, both have their own problems with the use of resources, which has contributed to the current chaos in Rome.
Friedkin invested more than 100 million yuan in the first transfer window, and although the transfer fee investment has shrunk since then, the salary cost behind the waiver of Belotti and Dybala, and the introduction of Lukaku this summer is not low. Therefore, the argument that the Americans are directly accusing the Americans of picking and squirting on their investments does not hold water.
Against Bologna on 18 December, substitute Alexis Sanchez was replaced by Jose Mourinho after 18 minutes. Although Mourinho publicly apologized after the game, a rift between the two has already arisen.
The problem is that Pinto's vision is too poor, Roma's heavy investment in reinforcements is more powerful than strong, and the potential stocks that have high hopes have not reflected their potential and value under Mourinho. Tammy Abraham and Shomurodov are typical failures, and the young Portuguese manager not only did not have the clever maneuvers of introducing Salah and Alisson, but also lacked practical reinforcements such as Dzeko. The absence of a central defender left by the departure of Ibañez has led to the top-heavy Roma squad. Compared with the defensive statistics of the same period, Roma have conceded 6 more goals this season than last year, and 8 points less. This, of course, includes the long-term injury side-outs of Chris Smalling and Kumbula, and the club's lack of a suitable replacement in this position is a direct cause.
Returning to Mourinho, although some fans are unhappy about the fate of his dismissal, the real data shows that Roma has not made a big improvement under his leadership. According to Opta data, he averaged 1.61 points per game in 96 league games, the worst of any manager who has coached more than 50 games since the 94-95 season, and his overall win rate of 49% fell below the more than half mark of his coaching career. In fact, Mourinho has been facing a coaching environment and coaching results since his time at Real Madrid, until he fell to the bottom of his career in the Eternal City.
Coming all the way from Real Madrid, Mourinho's coaching environment and match win rate have been on a downward trend.
Mourinho's Roma career has been passable on an individual and team level, and even in the eyes of some die-hard loyalists, winning the UEFA Europa League will not offset his poor run of four consecutive games without a goal against arch-rivals Lazio. Extending this report card to traditional powerhouses is even more embarrassing: he has failed to win one of his six direct meetings with Pioli, and has lost more than he has won against other strong teams.
At the fan level, the success achieved at Inter Milan, coupled with the unremarkable results of leading the team in this team, has made many Roma diehards never regard Mourinho as their own. Recalling the classic scene of Mu Shuai in Serie A, the scene where he crossed his hands and satirized the referee for putting on "handcuffs" for himself during the Inter period is still the most intuitive memory of many people. Mourinho, who sat in the stands due to suspension in the away defeat to Milan, received a double taunt from Milan and Roma fans for the simple reason that his achievements in the Nerazzurri made neither side see him as their own.
From rejecting multiple offers to stay last year to parting in tears this year, Mourinho's feelings for Roma are undoubted. But he was never really accepted by the city's die-hard loyalists.
Sky Sports said that Mourinho's dismissal also included his endless taunts and provoking referees to be punished, much to Friedkin's annoyance, who believed that Mourinho's flamboyant personality had damaged the club's brand image to the outside world. Mourinho is no longer a "special one" among the management, the players and some fans, and the strong urban football atmosphere of the Eternal City has not accepted Mourinho as a former Inter coach to establish his career here. Mourinho, who has passed the age of sixtieth, may regret that he did not go to the Portuguese national team last year, and now there is no such good choice as the Five Shields Army.