They are many.Yes,quote me.The special one has them in bulk.Wherever he goes,he packs them in their numbers.Portugal,England,Italy and now Spain...he has them.Okay,let me just talk of the coaches.
In his hometown,while managing Benfica,and then FC Porto,he had various run-ins with Jesualdo Ferreira,a man almost two decades his senior,and who would go on to replace him at Porto.First,he refused to accept him as an Assistant at Benfica,then he compared his precious self with Ferreira, ''One coach is with a 30 year career,the other with three.The one with 30 years has won nothing.The one with three has won a lot...the one with 30 years would be forgotten when he ends his carrer.The one with three could end it right now and he could never be erased from history...story of a donkey who worked for 30 years but never became a horse.''
Over to England,the special one had highly publicised rift with Rafa Benitez,who said in one of his rants, ''He(Mourinho) is best friends with only managers of the teams he beats.'' The special one irked Arsene Wenger so much that Arsene threatened to sue him.Then,in the champions league,he accused Barcelona's Frank Rijkaard of bribing a referee at half time...'when I saw him come out of the referees room,I could not believe it'...and also correctly predicted Rijkaard's starting eleven.He also had one word for former Liverpool and Newcastle manager,Graeme Souness(''where does he coach now?'',the special one asked). Avram Grant also got his own share for replacing him.''Second best in Carling cup...Premier league...in champions league.That's nothing!''. But then,when he left England,he revealed he also had close pals like Alex Ferguson(''he is my best friend in football'',Mourinho admitted), Martin Jol,Sam Allardyce,Harry Redknapp and Alan Pardew.But then,he said,''I would join another club,and come back to kill Chelsea.''. That,he did!
In Italy,he called Luciano Spalletti,then of Roma,a 'prime time champion',who loved being on the television.He called Carlo Ancellotti of Milan an 'enemy' and then quite sympathetically called Claudio Ranieri of Juventus,who he took over from at Chelsea a second best man and ''at nearly 70,has achieved nothing''. Ranieri was 57 then.
Now in Spain,all the managers seem to avoid him.None has said a thing for or against him...well,except Manolo Preciado of Sporting Gijon,who thought Mourinho was a 'punk'.
One thing is sure.The special one makes football so interesting,is a reader's delight and even a friend of the television...an actor may be.As long as he gets his results,he wouldn't mind having more enemies...or so it seems.