Originally Posted by IainR
In early 2008 with frank rijkaard’s position as coach of barcelona under threat, the club’s then sporting director txiki begiristain and vice-president marc ingla were investigating possible replacements. A certain jose mourinho, out of work since his departure from chelsea the previous september, was on the shortlist. A meeting was arranged in lisbon…
“what happened was both fascinating and a definitive moment in the development of modern barcelona – as well as inter milan and real madrid.
Mourinho had prepared what ingla and begiristain remember to be a brilliant power-point demonstration. His self-belief was clearly intact; he understood intimately the challenges ahead of barça’s next coach, had deduced from a distance what was going wrong and had clear views on the best way out of the mess they were in. In normal circumstances the material, and the man, on show would have been so dazzling, so convincing that the argument would have become whether to give him the job there and then.
amazing to think that mourinho, a uefa cup, european cup, fa cup, and multiple league title winner, interviewed at barcelona, and was turned down, while moyes got a call from ferguson and turned up at ferguson's house in jeans to be told on sight that he had the united job
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