I said because, everywhere he will go there will be huge burden of expectations. He will be measured on all together different scale which only few in world have gone thru. At Porto he was some one and at Chelsea he became special one. The transformation is marvelous. He won trophies at Porto. But against best managers and oppositions? No. At Chelsea? Yes. And the biggest achievement he had was enslaving the English media. English media which is considered as worst in the world were slaves of his press conferences. I still remember reading some one highly successful journo’s article on Jose’s conferences, the passes used to be even more rare than CL final tickets. Such was a demand for his PC’s. And what could be the biggest complement than media making him favorite to succeed McClaren. The same media who is considered as worst enemy of English manager.

Thats why I still say his best years with Chelsea. He might have major success at Italy/Germany/SPain. But its in England where he became talk of the town.

I have a theory which takes your statement one — or two — steps further: that Man Utd, Arsenal & (perhaps) Liverpool are playing to their high standards now BECAUSE Jose showed that a team can play at a higher level.

We’ll see if this is true if his work in Italy | Spain raise the level of the entire top flight of Serie A | La Liga over a period of time.