Jose Mourinho is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most controversial managers of all time.
In a career spanning nine clubs in over 20 years, the ‘special one’ has won pretty much everything on offer, with multiple league titles and Champions League trophies to his name, and also struck up a reputation as someone who likes to open his wallet.
Spending over £1billion in total at his nine different clubs makes him one of the biggest spenders in football history, and these signings naturally range from the brilliant to the utterly abysmal.
We’ve ranked his 13 weirdest – not necessarily the worst – signings he’s made throughout his career at any of his clubs, from somewhat weird to mind-blowingly bizarre.
13. Baba Rahman
“I’m looking forward to playing in the squad. Football is not a one-man show, we have to play together,” the Ghanaian left-back said after he joined Chelsea in August 2015.
“He [Mourinho] is one of the best coaches in the world and I’m looking forward to working with him.
“I think he can be funny sometimes, that’s what I have seen on TV, but he is a hard-working coach and tactical.”
You can imagine Jose pulling out the ol’ Joe Pesci routine from Goodfellas in response to that comment – “I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you?”
Rahman actually made 23 appearances, 15 in the Premier League, during his debut campaign, and is still at Chelsea seven years on – but currently into a seventh loan away.
12. Tal Ben-Haim
The imposing Israeli centre-back was impressive at Sam Allardyce’s Bolton Wanderers, so there were a few clubs circling around him when his contract expired in the summer of 2007.
Mourinho’s Chelsea ultimately picked him up, despite already having John Terry, Ricardo Carvalho and Alex within their ranks, yet Ben-Haim claims he was promised first-team football.
Mourinho then left Chelsea in September 2007 after a poor start to the season, which left Ben-Haim in an awkward position under his replacement Avram Grant, who fined him two weeks wages after an angry outburst.
“It was Jose who brought me here and no one except he and I know the conversation we had when he tried to sign me the first time a year ago last January,” the defender stated.
“The fact is while Jose was the coach I played most of the games and people who know me know that I would not have come here to be a reserve. I knew nothing good would come for me with Grant as Chelsea…
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