Jose Mourinho is a trophy hunter. It’s what he does for a living.
He boasts about it and with his collection of Primeira Ligas, La Liga, Serie A, Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup honours he has every right to.
He knows, that with his reputation for collecting Cups, the pressure would be on if he ever went a season without silverware
Since 2003, when he won the Primeira Liga for the first time with Porto, he has won a trophy every year.
It is the reason Arsenal - poised for elimination from the Champions League following their 3-1 defeat to Bayern Munich at home - should be asking him to replace Arsene Wenger at the end of the season.
What a gear change that would be for a club as conservative as Arsenal. With Mourinho at the wheel, they would soon be up to speed.
When he was appointed as Chelsea manager in 2004, he flew to Manchester to meet the club’s English players as they prepared for that year’s European Championship.
It was in that meeting he told captain John Terry, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole and Wayne Bridge he would turn them into winners and that they would lift the Premier League the following season.
He won them over in that meeting, getting the dressing room onside and casting his spell on the club’s most influential players.
That was talking the talk, but a year later they were lifting Chelsea’s first league title for 50 years.
He is a success story and because silverware is all that counts at the top, Mourinho is still the main man.
In the last nine years as a coach, he has won 20 major honours in the four different countries with Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid.
Take Mourinho’s record from 2005, when Arsenal last won a trophy, and it puts Wenger to shame.
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