During a debate table after Tottenham’s defeat, Rio Ferdinand explained the reason he feels sorry for Jose Mourinho’s current situation.
Despite putting up a fight, Rio Ferdinand still feels sorry for Jose Mourinho’s situation at Tottenham Hotspur. The Portuguese manager arrived at North London with the sole purpose of ending the club’s trophy drought once and for all. But instead, he only keeps getting defeated by some of the most competitive clubs in the country due to mistakes from his players. Even if Jose managed to get all the tactics right in a game, there is no way for him to control what his players decide in complicated situations.
This is the reason Rio Ferdinand can’t help but feel sorry for Jose’s current situation. With the Premier League match against Manchester City right around the corner, thinking about another defeat for Spurs becomes inevitable. Ferdinand explained the reasoning behind his thought process about Jose Mourinho’s situation.
Why Rio feels sorry for Mou.
“I have to say I actually feel sorry for him [Mourinho] in some ways,” Ferdinand told BT Sport. “Because in recent weeks he’s changed quite a few times in the way they’ve approached games. The West Brom game was a bit different when Harry Kane wasn’t playing, and now tonight was open and expansive. But each and every one of those times recently they’ve been undone by individual moments, individual errors. As a manager, you can prepare all you like all week for each game but these individual errors are killing him.
“In that sense I feel sorry for him because sometimes it just derails his whole plan that he’s worked on all week. I think it’s a quality thing, yeah. I think there’s too many players consistently making mistakes and it’s leaving them open and they’re having to chase games some of the time. Until they get that right and eradicate those types of mistakes they can never really consider themselves a team that’s going to challenge consistently because mistakes lead to goals, which then means you chase and leaves you open, it’s problems consistently.”
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