"I'm just pointing out how they've come."
what's the difference? it's generally what people do when they try to praise or diminish the achievements. you're making it sound like those were very easy things to do. so if this is the way you're pointing out how they've come, I don't see how supposedly you're not belittling them.
I really don't get it. how he repeated the same pattern with all those four teams? when people talk about his inter team, bam, "he parked the bus at camp nou against the lovely barcelona, lousy bastard". nobody says a thing about how busquets made motta sent off around 30th minute and they were ten men against their "mighty" barcelona, or the first leg of the tie, where inter played a very good football and won 3-1 against them. I mean, this was a goddamn single game. if that's the thing, his chelsea scored 4 against barcelona back in 2004or5 and I should go around repeating that chelsea team was great "normal" football team then. I don't know how people pretend to remember his inter, when they even seem to totally forgot esp. his last two seasons with real. for instance, his team played much less defensively against bayern in 2012 semis compared to this year's but he lost the tie with penalties then and madrid eliminiated bayern this year and "oh, mourinho's gone, real back to normal". if you're really saying he implied the same pattern in madrid, that's just wrong man. they were a joy to watch imo. his inter had one of the finest defensive lineups maybe in the history of the game so why should they have played that "normal" footbal (my ass, I loved watching that great players maicon, zanetti, cambiasso, samuel, lucio finally winning some thing)? just like mourinho himself said a few days ago. when you have cech, who can send the ball to the other box and drogba up there, who can get everything in the air why should you play that "normal" football?
he always plays what's suitable to his team each year. that's the pattern. one can watch all the games he played against barcelona and can easily see he always tried different tactics in almost each game.
if things were that easy as said, city and psg should have also been big powers in cl right from the time they were bought. but chelsea succeeded this, because they had mourinho. real never played a semi final since 2003, and did it three years in a row between 2011-13, because they had mourinho. they weren't bankrupt between all that period. no need to repeat how special those porto and inter successes are either.
