I think one of the things that is underappreciated is that the sort of football they played on Wednesday is just really tedious to play. For one game away to liverpool, sure, the players knuckle down and do what is needed to try to get out of there with a result. But over the long term it’s tough to maintain that buy in for it to work properly.
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Agree. And some would define long-term as 90 minutes. 
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Even worse, he could be talking about Pip and slighting Jurgen.
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Toodle Pip?
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At the moment he would be my pick to succeed Klopp - although I hope by the time Klopp leaves I am an old man.
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@SBYM in 2017
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Gotta say, it is real nice living rent free in José‘s head. He keeps opening his mouth and spewing shite while we ignore him and doesn’t give him what he wants
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I sink so.
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Roy Keane on Spurs playing at home against Leicester.
'It’s like the Spurs of the old days. Lots of credit to Mourinho for sorting it, but conceding late at Liverpool, not holding on at Crystal Palace and now this. They’ve gone back to the ‘Spursy’ way.'
Keane also slammed Aurier for his clumsiness in giving away the penalty so late in the first-half.
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Is he waving goodbye to his title challenge? 
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Proof enough, as to why black magic ultimately fails.
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No thick skin like a Josie thick skin, still thinks they should have won at our place, what with 28% possession. What possession, more like an exorcism.
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Generally this is the time for even arsenal fans to have a giggle at spursy. But then , Arsenal are too shite too.
Rather have Arsenal strong than have Spurs under Jose
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Broken record Maureen
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His way of motivating the players. This is something that goes on only till the players have had enough and begin to rebel and then the implosion is there for all to see.
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All Mourinho has done is instilled some sort of siege mentality spirit in the squad and then simplified their playing style down to the lowest common denominator; keep it tight, keep it tight, then vertical passes upfield as quick as possible with players breaking quickly. If something comes of it then great but if not then fall back, rinse and repeat.
It’s worked to some effect this season and against teams who are going to dominate the ball no matter what you do then it is even an effective tactic but over the course of a season to win a title? I seriously do not think so. He’s also been helped and not hindered by the lack of fans because that style of play is quickly going to become old when playing at home. Everyone amongst the media and pundits have been jizzing themselves silly over Spurs and Jose while not seeing how that type of play in league football in 2020 is going to suffer from diminishing returns. Having been so prevalent the players are not going to be able to switch from doing that and buying into it against the likes of Liverpool and City and then going up against the likes of Burnley expecting to dominate.
Mourinho looks a far cry from his last days at United but it’s not like he has now reinvented himself and come back to be all conquering. I think he will have a good cup team because that style of play lends itself to good runs and coming up against good teams but the inevitable implosion will come at some point and he’ll leave Spurs a flaming wreck. Spurs fans courtesy of the media have convinced themselves that they haven’t done a deal with the devil (a bit strong but they haven’t the financial clout to be able to shrug Mourinho off the way his past clubs could do) but at some point the time will come to pay up and I reckon they’re going to be in a pretty tough spot when it does.
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I guarantee that he starts playing Alli so that he has someone to shit all over when he’s doing post match interviews.
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Edit, ups they are 5th now
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I still think he’s playing much more consistent Mourinho football at Spurs than he did at Man United. The match was there for them today. They had that one spell in the middle of the first half when they poured it on and looked very likely. Leicester’s midfield press was effective at minimizing Spurs counter attack. But until Aurier’s brain fart… After the goal Rodgers set up a little role reversal and just counter punched. I don’t think Spurs will beat the better sides if they concede first.
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