#3 On Jose Mourinho
It is quite easy to say that Chelsea may have bought their title last year. In the same sense, it is also a very commonly heard statement that Jose Mourinho didn’t deserve to be Manager of the Year looking at the funds at his disposal and the calibre of the squad he already had on hand.
However as Neville perfectly displays here, the truth is far from it. In a refreshingly objective and honest analysis, the former United man manages to show us the sheer scale of Mourinho’s overhaul of Chelsea and the tactful expulsions and additions they have made to the team under the Portuguese manager who virtually restructured the entire team while obeying the Financial Fair Play rules.
Without pundits like Neville, most of us would never even realize the magnitude of Mourinho’s impact on Chelsea in his second stint with the club and how he has actually been as impactful on the team as when he first arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2005.
Neville, however, doesn’t only shower praises on the Chelsea manager and also notes down that it would be remiss of Mourinho to make the errors of the past and deprive the club of true holistic growth by restricting the involvement of the academy products in Chelsea’s starting XI.
