Mourinho was right in Turkey

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By: Manu Tournoux

Since his arrival in Fenerbahçe, José Mourinho has arisen as a system of the system. Sanctioned, conspired, sometimes mocked, it has long been perceived as one more provocative. But now the behind the scenes of Turkish football have just proved him right. The local press has revealed compromising WhatsApp exchanges between members of the Turkish disciplinary committee. Messages in which Mourinho's name circulates with hostility. The string is no longer invisible: it is unrolled.

What Mourinho has denounced for months – arbitrary decisions, unjust suspensions, barely veiled favoritism – now takes a new resonance. When the president of the disciplinary committee appears in a galatasaray jersey or his committee makes fun of Fenerbahçe in private, the neutrality of Turkish football takes a serious blow in the wing. The Special One therefore does not shout in the plot: it exposes a sick system, gangrenous by impunity.

Mourinho, chaos strategist

For Fenerbahçe, these revelations are blessed bread. The club has long been screaming in injustice and can now rely on tangible evidence. In a scathing tone press release, the club denounced “a hostile mentality” and “a blatant violation of the principle of impartiality”. It is no longer just a disputed arbitration affair. This is the very image of the championship that is at stake. In a context where the Süper Lig seeks visibility and credibility, these leaks are a stain.

Mourinho is not just a coach. It is a strategist. He knows that to hope to win in a championship that he deems biased, it is first necessary to delegitimize his rules. His media outings, his constant allusions to the arbitrariness are not hot anger: these are coldly prepared ammunition. And today they explode in the face of the institution. The Portuguese may not have yet won a trophy in Türkiye, but it has already won a much deeper battle: that of credibility.