Roma coach Jose Mourinho has the trust of the owners at Trigoria but the Portuguese tactician is currently destabilising the dressing room at the Giallorossi.
The Friedkins are determined to show their faith in the coach and the club is pointing at refereeing errors and inconsistencies as the elements that have cost them points at the start of the campaign.
But with only one win in seven games, the pressure is naturally increasing on Mourinho and the hierarchy at the club must find an explanation to the poor return across all competitions in recent weeks.
La Gazzetta dello Sport highlights the attacking problems at the Olimpico, with Roma topping the charts for shots on goal with 214, but they are only seventh in the league when it comes to goals scored.
And at Trigoria, the smiles have turned upside down in recent weeks too, as the coach threw the players under the bus and has been giving mixed signals to his players.
An example is how Ebrima Darboe started the match against Bodo/Glimt on Thursday but was not in the squad for the 3-2 defeat against Venezia on Sunday.
The seriousness has increased after a light start with smiles and jokes at the Giallorossi and the newspaper claims the dressing room has been destabilised due to the link between the players off the pitch.
Some of the players are reportedly not happy with the treatment of others at the Giallorossi, even if Mourinho could be right when he pointed out that the squad is not ready to compete at the top in Italy and Europe.
But the ownership didn’t agree with the method used to make some players redundant after the embarrassing defeat in Norway, also because they need to sell some of their squad players to sign new ones.
The newspaper also claims Antonio Conte’s arrival at Tottenham was not received with indifference by Mourinho, given the previous relationship between the two, and this might have affected his mood.
The club will most likely intervene on the transfer market in January, but it’s necessary to sell first and it will not be easy.
Roma have a project where young players are meant to grow and Mourinho’s current strategy is being questioned.
Apart from defender Roger Ibanez, the outlet claims none of the others are improving, while Gonzalo Villar and Amadou Diawara seem to be outside of the project.
Marash Kumbulla and Riccardo Calafiori are down too, and the problem with the current situation is that the value of the youngsters will continue to drop if they are obviously not the future of the Giallorossi and it will thus be harder to make a profit.
Heaven forbid Mourinho calls out his players for getting smashed 6-1!! My goodness, lets not step on the toes of these players, that make multi millions kicking a ball around!! How dare Jose criticize them for getting out classed, and putting zero effort out on the pitch🤦
I don’t really follow Mourinho or know much about him or his tactics, but I can’t imagine any positive outcome of throwing his players under the bus as he’s done recently. Will that make anyone play better, with more confidence? Or will it make them more fearful? All clubs have players that aren’t that great, but to single them out and ostracise them like that, it’s not cool from the manager. That should be discussed behind closed doors where transfer decisions are made. Don’t air your dirty laundry in public and all that.
The referring has 💯 caused a loss of points, anyone who says other wise is lying FACTS!!! Almost every single game Roma have been made to pay by a refereeing decision. The penalty that should’ve been giving to Lorenzo vs Milan, isn’t but when playing Venezia, they get awarded a penalty for the exact thing that happened to Lorenzo, plus the two blatant hand balls vs Bodo!! 12vs 11 when Roma play any team it seems
At this point Roma biggest threat is Mou himself. Everybody knows some players in their respective teams have a few players that don’t deserve to be there but for a coach to go in public and say it out loud and follow up with actions means he’s causing more harm than good. The owners are clueless if they think what he’s doing is right as it’s one thing to freeze one player but completely different to do it to a couple for no apparent reason other than they’re just bad.
How is it that you haven’t posted my previous comments??? Is it offensive? Ohhhh I see it’s a different opinion from what you have written!! I love it, how you only post comments that agree with your narrative!! Have a great day champ!! ✌️
@Mikey. Mournho set those squad players up to fail. He threw them all in at once when a. that line-up had never played together before (no chemistry); b. most of them have had very few minutes in their legs. They’ve barely featured. And c. Mourinho does this in a very awkward away game, in very rough conditions, and against a side which Mourinho foolishly underestimated. Mou not only disrespected his players, he extended the same courtesy to his employers, the travelling fans, the tournament, and his opponents.
Whoever tries to defend the Roma performance during Bodo/Glimt needs to take a long look at themselves. Even if they were given 5 penalties and they scored all of them, they still would’ve scraped a draw against a second rate team. Mourinho tries to get the dressing room rallied like he did at Inter, like he tried to do at Real but it just doesn’t work any more. The managers who are really at the top of the game right now are the likes of Klopp and Guardiola who – money aside – are great individual man managers. I remember seeing Guardiola lecturing Sterling, telling him how to improve even after sterling had a good game. I knew this would happen with Mourinho and he’s gotten his excuses out early – “This is the early stages of a long project” “Refereeing/VAR” “Didn’t get the transfers I wanted” “Bad players”. He knew what he was getting himself in for, time to put on his big boy pants.
You guys are obsessed with José. Too much anti Roma articles here. Let the man work. Patience. You have to give him a season at least. Why not pick the juve boss apart a bit more.
Nobody is more obsessed with Jose than Jose is. He has made this about himself, as he usually does, so he’s the one being criticised.
@Chris
Almost all the Roma managers except Spaghetti have been just as bad. José just does iPad differently. I don’t like him either, but FI is writing article after article about him so they are part of what winds people up. I still believe that, no matter who you hire, they should be given a season at least. Personally I would have given the job to Ranieri to stabilise the ship.
*Does bad
The reason Mourinho was successful with Porto, Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid was because he had leaders and MEN in the dressing room who could lead by example and sometimes even take his half time team talks for him! Man Utd, Chelsea 2nd stint, Spurs and this Roma side have no leaders and no MEN, just boys who act like men and think they know everything and will never give their all for the shirt because there’s always something else on their minds.
He knows what he needs to succeed and if players are blaming the manager for poor finishing then they need to look themselves in the mirror, THEY ARE 1ST FOR SHOTS ON GOAL, so anyone that says they play boring football clearly don’t watch Roma and are here just to hate on him.
We are barely 3/4 months into a 3 YEAR project. Some people are so dumb if they think they can change in that small time period into some super team.
The man needs time.
Day after day after day, nothing but lazy anti-roma hitpieces against Jose from F.I. You’re about to lose a reader. The problems Roma had for previous years are still a problem. Any time talent developed, they were harvested at the expense of team depth, which caused them to fall short versus the top teams. Jose literally directly stated that this was a weakness, and then they completely failed to address the issue in the offseason.
If anti-roma people desperately need to throw blame this early, Pinto failed to cover the known issues that had to be covered. But even that is extreme. Basically all Roma fans want to give both JM and TP some time. Everyone wants results but everyone knows a team can’t be turned over and revolutionized in a single transfer window.
Mourinho is a legendary coach, when he speaks player need to listen and not dissent. This is what coaches do, give praise when warranted and blast when you perform badly.
There really is no story here, if you don’t like the coach find another job, perhaps at a bicycle shop. I would love as a player to have my resume state that Mourinho once worked with me.
Football Italia now turning into British Press lol. Italian football including the press must be grateful to Mou for taking up the Roma job… I wouldn’t. He should have just waited for the PSG job. And to compare Guardiola’s Mancity to Roma? Do you think Pep will ever accept to coach Roma with a gurantee of 12 new players? He has only coached Barca, Bayern & City for a reason. Respect man, respect.
The Bloke almost destroyed both the fitness and morale at Man U, Tottenham and now Rome.
He was once special.
Now it’s always someone else’s fault.