Mourinho Taught Me To Thrive As Manager In The Heat Of Expectation – Brendan Rodgers

Former manager Brendan Rodgers has shared a vital piece of advice from ex-Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho after finding his job under threat. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Mourinho showed him what it means to thrive in the heat of expectation, and it was a psychological lesson that positively impacted his coaching career in the long run.

Rodgers added that winning four Scottish Premiership titles and multiple domestic cups is an achievement he is very proud of.

His words, “I think it shone the light on me probably a lot more. Being at Reading was brilliant – they were a club who looked after me as a player.

I ended up being academy manager there and had a great spell of nearly 14 years there.

Going to Chelsea with Jose Mourinho coming in, where they wanted to go to as a club and how they wanted to transform the youth section… there was no doubt because when I went in there and I was only in the door two or three weeks and there were four or five high-profile coaches linked with my job.

I had never had that before. I went to Jose early on and he told me: ‘When you are at these top clubs you will have at least 12 names linked with your job. It will be the same with me as a manager. Don’t worry, work hard and manager. Don’t worry, work hard and work and it will be OK’.

The opportunity to work with world-class players and some brilliant youth players, and then I had the chance to work closer with the first team.

At that time it was John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Claude Makelele – to be around that and see how they live their life every day, how they train and operate… it set the bar for me because everything they wanted to do was world class.”

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