Mourinho: the worst signings he made in Real Madrid, Manchester United and Chelsea

Jose Mourinho is one of the most successful and respected managers in soccer history. The Portuguese won two Champions League titles, three Premier League and many other awards that put him as the very special one, the nickname he has gained after all these years.

Mou managed many teams, and the most important ones were Real Madrid, Inter, Chelsea, Manchester United, Chelsea and Porto. Since November 2019 he replaced Mauricio Pochettino in Tottenham Hotspur and has a contract signed until June 2023. But not everything was a path of roses in the career of the 58 years old head coach.

Mourinho completed some very bad signings as a manager and probably the most emblematic one is Andriy Shevchenko, for whom Chelsea paid $45 million and then left for free. Fabio Coentrao was other of the most polemic ones, when Real Madrid paid $30 million for the Portuguese left defender.

As Mourinho managed very important teams, he always found money to invest, but many times he chose the wrong players. Henrikh Mkhirayan is another case, as he forced Manchester United to pay more than $42 million for him and the attacker only scored 13 goals in the club.

A list that continues

Those are not the only players that Mourinho signed and then didn’t perform as the coach and the fans were expecting too. Another of the famous cases is the one of Alexis Sánchez, the Chilean attacker who landed in MUFC for a fortune a left a couple of years later for free. The last one on the list, and a very polemic one, is Nuri Sahin, Turkish midfielder for whom he asked at Real Madrid.