Jamie Carragher
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Wayne, you talk about Jose Mourinho and how he's all loved him, even the players who were out the team.
And I could see that from afar in the Liverpool, the connection he had with his players.
That's something he's now criticised for in his last job at Manchester United and his job maybe now at Tottenham.
Do you think Jose's changed or players have changed?
Could you give us any insight into what Jose actually asks of a full-back?
Because when we watch his games, we analyse them, we talk about, does he like his full-backs flying forward?
Does he like full-backs just to support, as you mentioned there behind Robin?
What is the real instructions to a full-back on a Jose team?
Well, it wasn't just this summer, it was the summer before.
I don't think we should forget the impact of some of the signings Ranieri made also.
For those first two summers, I just remember we'd be in pre-season with Liverpool and you'd come in for lunch and you'd sit down, you'd have Sky Sports news on, it'd just be breaking news, Chelsea have signed someone else, Chelsea have signed someone else.
It almost became like a running joke every day we'd come in and say, who's Chelsea signed today?
But I think sometimes...
The actual signings and the money actually clouds how good that Chelsea team was, really, in some ways.
Because no matter how much money you spend, Jose Mourinho and this Chelsea team won the title on the back of Arsenal being invincible.
On the back of Manchester United that summer signing Rooney and Ronaldo, who were the two best young players in the world, possibly in that summer, certainly weighing after the European Championships he'd had in 2004.
So to actually come into the league and actually not just win the league, I mean, completely blow everyone out the water, really.
I don't think it's given enough credit in terms of the actual job Jose did.
Yes, he spent money, but not being in the Premier League before as a manager,
What the other teams had there, you know, Wenger and Ferguson, legendary managers in the Premier League and the two seasons they'd had before as well, as I said, Invincibles and the signings United made, I thought it was an unbelievable achievement and job that Jose Mourinho and that Chelsea team did.