Oscar has joked that he hopes his former Chelsea supervisor Jose Mourinho doesn’t deliver success to the Blues’ London rivals Tottenham Hotspur.
The Brazil worldwide spent two-and-a-half years with Mourinho at Stamford Bridge between 2013 and 2015, profitable the Premier League underneath the self-proclaimed ‘Special One’s’ stewardship.
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Oscar performed a pivotal position in Chelsea’s 2014/15 Premier League triumph underneath Mourinho
Mourinho left Chelsea, for the second and remaining time, in December 2015 and after a spell at Manchester United – the place he received the Carabao Cup as nicely as the Europa League – he was appointed as Mauricio Pochettino’s successor at Spurs in November 2019.
Since his appointment, the Portuguese hasn’t been capable of deliver any silverware – which Spurs and chairman Daniel Levy desperately crave – again to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and so they presently sit in eighth place in the Premier League.
However, Spurs might win their first trophy in 13 years in the event that they beat Manchester City in the League Cup remaining in April and talking completely to talkSPORT, Oscar has backed his former supervisor to deliver success to North London.
Asked whether or not he thought Mourinho would deliver trophies to Tottenham, Oscar mentioned: “I hope not as a result of I assist Chelsea, proper? But Jose Mourinho is an excellent coach.
“I hope he will help Tottenham do some bit higher and attempt to win some trophies. He is a really clever man.
“You all the time study from older coaches. Of course, Jose Mourinho is one of the best coaches. I actually like [Antonio] Conte and the means the workforce performed underneath Conte was very spectacular. I believe at Chelsea, I’d decide these two [as the managers I learnt the most from].”
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Oscar received a Premier League title and League Cup underneath Mourinho’s stewardship at Chelsea
There had been loads of success tales from Mourinho’s time at Chelsea together with Oscar, who performed an integral half in serving to the Blues win the Premier League in 2014-15, scoring six objectives in 28 league appearances and racking up an additional eight assists.
However, there have been some gamers who struggled to make the breakthrough throughout Mourinho’s second spell at Stamford Bridge, one of which was a sure Mohamed Salah.
Salah moved to Chelsea from FC Basel in January 2014, however struggled to nail down an everyday place in Mourinho’s beginning line-up and was loaned out to Fiorentina a 12 months later.
A mortgage to Roma swiftly adopted – a transfer which might finally be made everlasting – and since then, the Egyptian worldwide hasn’t appeared again, changing into one of the best gamers in the world underneath Jurgen Klopp’s steering at Liverpool.
Oscar noticed Salah at shut quarters throughout his time at Stamford Bridge and mentioned in a latest interview with Yellow and Green Football that the Egyptian was ‘unstoppable’ in coaching.
However, he feels that Salah’s incapability to nail down an everyday place in Chelsea’s beginning line-up dented his confidence, which meant Blues followers by no means noticed him at his best.
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Oscar says Salah’s confidence was ‘dented’ at Chelsea
“I believe it was actually exhausting for him as a result of at that point, we had lots of good gamers in the similar place,” he explains.
“They didn’t have the similar high quality of Salah – everybody had troublesome qualities – however most in his place like me, Mata, Hazard, Willian, Schurrle, De Bruyne, had been younger and everybody additionally performed for his or her nationwide workforce, in order that they performed good soccer.
“He didn’t have his likelihood and when he did have his likelihood, typically, he didn’t have an excessive amount of confidence. After in Roma and Liverpool, he was superb. It’s good to see one man enhance his recreation.
“I’m impressed as a result of he already improved lots from Roma after which after when he arrived at Liverpool. He has lots of good gamers round him.
“With Liverpool final 12 months, it wasn’t about one participant; it was a extremely good workforce. Firmino is nice, Salah is nice, Mane is nice, you’ve received the midfielders and the defenders after which additionally Alisson, the goalkeeper. Everyone is of an excellent high quality. I’m very impressed by Liverpool and by Salah, who has accomplished nice.”
