Tactics and Strategy and Jose Mourinho

Recently, a friend sent through this article on Jose Mourinho , and an interesting email discussion ensued. The article could be (and was) argued to be quite a superficial article, saying that Morinho wins 'because he has "tactics" and "a fascination for details and process"... and a lot of money. Has he won without spending a lot of money?' HN I thought that I'd post an edited transcript, in case anyone else was interested! ML It has actually has more insight than most articles I see on any topic. He won the Champions League with Porto, so yes he has won without spending money. And Champions League with Inter was also relatively (compared with the English and Spanish teams he beat) little money. And money does not guarantee success anyway. How he wins is fascinating. Because there are very, very few coaches who ALWAYS win. And he always wins. AL I agree. I love the idea of 'fascination for details and process'. It makes a lot of s