Eddie Howe and Erik ten Hag will be competing for their first major trophy as a boss in England during the Carabao Cup final. Jose Mourinho was there once...
“For me, it’s not so important. I think for the fans, for the club, for the players – especially for the players who were in this club for a few years without silverware – I think it’s important. It’s very difficult to win for the first time and for these players it’s the first time. For the club it’s the first time over the last five years, so it was very important for us.
Not typically one to aggrandise his own achievements or impact, Mourinho once claimed credit for raising the stock of the League Cup as a competition worth winning. In his defence, the list of clubs to lift the trophy in the decade prior to 2005 includes Aston Villa, Leicester , Blackburn and Middlesbrough, as well as Liverpool , Spurs and Chelsea themselves. In the 18 years since, the only non-Big Six champions have been Birmingham in 2011 and Swansea two years later.
Mourinho has always seen value in the League Cup as a means to engender a winning, trophy-hungry mentality and to strike the first tangible blow of a season over any rivals. It was his first trophy of five during Chelsea reign 1.0, and the platform he mistakenly hoped to build on with Chelsea 2.0 and Man Utd.
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