{"id":5698,"date":"2015-12-16T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T13:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:34:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:34:28","slug":"oh-no-no-mourinho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5698","title":{"rendered":"Oh no no Mourinho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5671\" target=\"_blank\">more thoughts<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The problem is bigger than Mo.<\/p>\n<p>A change at this point would not achieve much, if anything.<\/p>\n<p>A change in the summer &#8211; but who? Guardiola going to Man City, Ancelotti to Bayern (probably &#8211; there or Man U)<\/p>\n<p>Diego Simeone wouldn&#8217;t be much of an improvement. Don&#8217;t go down the ex-player route.<\/p>\n<p>Jose needs to change, yes &#8211; but isn&#8217;t that the whole point of a long term plan? He has just delivered the championship.<\/p>\n<p>He will be a better manager on the other side of this. He&#8217;s earnt the right to a bad season &#8211; however catastrophic it may end up being (as long as it isn&#8217;t relegation)<\/p>\n<p>The air needs to be cleared. Either sack him or put out a statement saying that Jose will be manager next season whatever happens this. That will soon sort out which are the players and which are the passengers in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I&#8217;d drop Costa and Hazard from the match squad completely (Mo is being too loyal!) &#8211; bring in Remy, Reuben, Bamford back from loan, get some young and hungry people in.<\/p>\n<p>It might seem more expensive, but overhauling the playing squad &#8211; play the younglings! &#8211; is the way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more thoughts&#8230; The problem is bigger than Mo. A change at this point would not achieve much, if anything. A change in the summer &#8211; but who? Guardiola going to Man City, Ancelotti to Bayern (probably &#8211; there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-1tU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5699,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions\/5699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}