Waiting For “Special” Offer

Jose Mour­inho said “thanks, but no thanks” to Lyon. Accord­ing to France Foot­ball it is due to the fact that “The Spe­cial One” is wait­ing for that for­mal offer to come his way from Barcelona. That would be the first step in the even­tual return of “The Trans­la­tor” to the Nou Camp.

Mour­inho became part of Txiki Beguiristain’s wish list for next year along with French star Karim Ben­zama, Chelsea’s Frank Lam­pard, Bayern’s Philipp Lahm, as well as Sevilla duo Dani Alves and Sey­dou Keita. Mour­inho is the top can­di­date to replace Frank Rijkaard at the helm, but Barcelona seem to have righted the ship in the past few weeks as they cut what was once a nine-point deficit all the way down to two. There is even the slight pos­si­bil­ity that they could even take the lead if they beat Atlético and Madrid lose on the road to Recreativo.

Yet there are indi­vid­u­als within the culé orga­ni­za­tion that believe that Mour­inho would be able to solve some of the prob­lems that the team presents on the pitch right now. After they broke down the tapes of this team they saw that their defense could be helped out based solely on Mourinho’s pres­ence and tac­ti­cal out­look of the game. There are oth­ers that think that the for­mer Chelsea boss would go against the prin­ci­ples of Barcelona’s style.

There are still lots to fig­ure out as the blau­grana are still in the hunt for a tre­ble and the obten­tion of such would def­i­nitely give the Barcelona brass no other choice than to keep the for­mer Dutch inter­na­tional at their dis­posal even though their rela­tion­ship may be strained beyond repair at this point.