206 "The Professor" and "The Madman"

"I really feel sorry for the future of Chinese talent, because some coaches are not good at using young players by nature." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

These are the words of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger in an interview with the British "Daily Mail" on August 25, 2023.

What did "Professor" Wenger mean by that?

Suddenly, many people began to discuss wildly, among them, there are many smart people, and after a little thought, they will understand the "reason"

There is no doubt that the "Professor" is on the same page with his old enemy "Madman" again! Arsene Wenger is talking about Mourinho again, everyone knows that AC Milan has a potential super talent, and Mourinho is now coaching at AC Milan, one of the things that Mourinho has been criticized for is that he is not good at using young players, of course, it is unknown whether Mourinho is really not good at using young players!

"If I've been in charge of a club for more than 20 years and haven't won more than a dozen league titles, it's a big pity, or "a crime", and the "madman" is not far behind, and he immediately launched a response through the newspaper "Milan Sport".

Needless to say, the two are on the bar again! It's just that this time Chen Long was unfortunate to lie down, and after Chen Long learned about the "war of words" between the two, he couldn't help but talk about it, they were really two "cute old men".

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The "feud" between "Professor" Wenger and "Madman" Mourinho is no secret in football, both on the pitch and off the pitch, the two often look at each other unpleasantly.

Speaking of the grievances between the two, this has to start with Mourinho's first arrival at Chelsea, 18 years ago Mourinho made his debut in England, although he was only a "Premier League rookie", but no one refused to buy it, especially those meritorious coaches who have already made a name for themselves. In the summer of 2005, the arrogant Jose Mourinho bluntly said that the Premier League fixtures were in Arsenal's favour, and his analogy was quite classic: "Some clubs are seen as devils, others as angels. I don't think we're too ugly to be seen as devils, and I don't think Arsene Wenger and David Dane [former Arsenal vice-president, former FA vice-president] are as good as angels. ”

This sentence is equivalent to "one stone stirs up thousands of miles of waves", which can be regarded as the prelude to the confrontation between the two!

Less than a month after Jose Mourinho took the lead in provoking the 'war', Arsene Wenger was quick to respond, questioning Chelsea's passive tactics and starting the war between the two: "We live in a world where there are only winners and losers, but if a sport encourages teams that refuse to be proactive, then the sport is in danger. ”

In the "war of words" between Arsene Wenger and Mourinho, the "voyeurism" was absolutely at the brunt of the game and should never be forgotten. In 2005 Chelsea invested heavily in recruitment, while Arsene Wenger criticised Stamford Bridge for its extravagance. Soon, the professor was hit back by Mourinho's rude and furious counter-attack, and not only was he labelled a 'voyeur', but the madman accused him of only pestering Chelsea.

'I think he's a voyeuristic guy who likes to peek at other people and talk about Chelsea over and over again. There is such a person, when he is at home, he will always use a big telescope to secretly watch other people's things in the house. ”

Wenger also countered Mourinho's vicious words, "I think this is simply putting the cart before the horse, not only distorting the facts, but also lacking respect for people." Sometimes, stupid people succeed not to make them smarter, but on the contrary, to make them stupider. ”

Mourinho remained unrelenting in his response to Arsene Wenger's response: "In the last 12 months, we have summed up a dossier from Arsene Wenger's statements, and it is not a dossier of only five pages, it should be as many as 120 pages. ”

In February 2015, Chelsea led the Premier League by a narrow one point ahead of Arsenal, but the ceasefire between the two was torn up as Arsene Wenger described Mourinho as he was "afraid of failure", and the "war" broke out again.

Mourinho countered, "He's a failure expert and if he's right, I'm afraid of failure, and that's because I haven't failed so many times. 8 years without a championship, that's a failure. A month later, Arsene Wenger played his 1,000th game in charge of Arsenal against Jose Mourinho's Chelsea. In the end, Chelsea thrashed the Gunners 6-0, and Mourinho managed to smash the field of Wenger's 1,000-game celebration.

Over the years in the Premier League, Wenger has beaten almost all opponents, but he has not been able to get out of the shadow of Mourinho, and it still is.

It is a strange phenomenon that Arsene Wenger has played 1,000 games in his 500th appearance in charge of Arsenal, all against Chelsea, and in the end Mourinho led his team to defeat Arsenal twice, and the slaughter in 2015 was undoubtedly devastating for Wenger, as his side were ravaged 6-0 by Chelsea, and only seven minutes into the game, Samuel Eto'o and Schurrle scored twice in a row, and Arsenal fell behind by two goals. Oxlade-Chamberlain then awarded a penalty for handball in the box, the referee mistakenly sent Gibbs off, and Eden Hazard continued to double the lead from the spot-kick. The 10-man battle finally collapsed, with Oscar's brace and substitute Mohamed Salah's goal to make it 6-0.

With Cesc Fabregas' £30 million move from Barcelona to Chelsea in the summer of 2014, a new 'battleground' for Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho was opened.

On his return to Arsenal, Mourinho insisted it wasn't a problem as the Spaniard 'really wanted to join Chelsea. But Arsene Wenger's response was: 'Someone has come out and said that he wants to join Chelsea, but I don't know if he's telling the truth. ”

At the beginning of 2016, Jose Mourinho was asked if he should say anything about Arsene Wenger's 1,000-game managerial career, but the madman's response only made the situation even more confusing.

Mourinho said: "I envy him and I admire Arsenal because no one can manage a team for 1,000 games unless a club has always supported their manager from start to finish, especially when the team is in a difficult period and there are so many of them. So I envy him and I admire this club. ”

The "war" between Arsene Wenger and Mourinho has nothing to do with whether Mourinho is at Chelsea or not. Jose Mourinho was sacked from Chelsea in September 2007 and while at home he once again pointed the finger at Arsene Wenger: "The British love statistics, but do they know that Wenger only wins 50 per cent of the league in the English league? ”

A few years later, Jose Mourinho became Real Madrid's manager, and in a Champions League group stage against Ajax, Mourinho let his teammates Alonso and Ramos apply for yellow cards and be sent off on the spot, as a way to achieve the purpose of "shuffling" (suspended in the final round of the group to avoid the possibility of being banned in the knockout stage due to the potential accumulation of three yellow cards). It also finally gave Wenger a chance to retaliate, "It deserves to be punished, they set a bad example for the sport of football. Come to think of it, never do it again, because frankly, it looks very annoying. ”

And when in 2017, Mourinho returned to the Premier League and took charge of the "Red Devils" Manchester United, the duel between the two was almost always "sabre-rattling", of course, among them, Mourinho seems to have been born with Wenger's nemesis, in Mourinho's three seasons in charge of Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester United have played a total of 8 times, but, among the eight encounters, Wenger's Arsenal has only won 2 games, and in the remaining six games, one draw and five losses.

Even in 2018~1019, the season when Arsenal won the Premier League, Wenger did not take any advantage in the duel with Mourinho.

It can be said that Mourinho is really Wenger's nemesis.

However, these two people have started "confrontation" again, and they are really idle, one is in the British Peninsula and the other is in the Apennine Peninsula, which can be leveraged, and they are really innate "natural enemies"! (To be continued.) )