He had a fear of swans back in 2006, compared an injury crisis to having an oversize blanket, and revealed to the world in 2010 that he was not the wizard from fiction, Harry Potter.
However, Mourinho has since taken over as manager of Tottenham, and his penchant for odd comparisons became apparent when he mentioned that the team is “hanging on the balcony of the fourth floor” during his pre-Champions League press conference, alluding to their precarious injury situation.
The South Korean forward Son Heung-min may miss the rest of the season, the Portuguese revealed, having broken his arm in the opening minute of the team’s victory over Aston Villa.
Mourinho compared his team’s situation to possibly falling off a hotel balcony, as Harry Kane is also expected to miss the rest of the season due to a hamstring injury sustained against Southampton.
In case anyone had forgotten his earlier anecdotes, Mourinho introduced his prepared speech with, “When we arrived, we were on the minus-12th floor, we got on the stairs and we started climbing.”
‘But immediately in the beginning, the stairs broke so we were in trouble and we were finding a way to try to get up.
‘We found a way, with a lot of work and a lot of effort and we started going and going and going, and when we arrive on the fourth floor, which was where we wanted to arrive, somebody came and took the stairs away.
‘So now we are in trouble. Now we have two options. One is to give up and we will fall and normally die – because it’s the fourth floor.
‘Another way is to fight with what we have, no stairs but arms. So, we’re going to be on that balcony fighting with everything that we have.’
Hilariously wacky analogies are commonplace for Mourinho and it is often when his side enters an injury crisis that they get even more bizarre.
With Chelsea’s wealth of options dramatically reduced and the transfer window no longer open, Mourinho used a blanket and a supermarket as the way to illustrate his struggles
