{"id":32587,"date":"2025-09-08T06:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fenerbahce-sacks-mourinho-they-seek-better-football-reveals-president\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:27:45","slug":"fenerbahce-sacks-mourinho-they-seek-better-football-reveals-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/fenerbahce-sacks-mourinho-they-seek-better-football-reveals-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbahce Sacks Mourinho: They Seek Better Football, Reveals President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ali Ko\u00e7 Explains Mourinho’s Departure from Fenerbahce<\/h2>\n\nFenerbahce president Ali Ko\u00e7 has described the dismissal of Jos\u00e9 Mourinho as “painful” but necessary for the team to play “better football.”\n\nMourinho was fired by Fenerbahce on August 29, after the team’s 1-0 aggregate defeat to Benfica in the Champions League qualifying rounds.\n\n\n
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“Why did we fire Mourinho? I will say it for the first time, it was a painful dismissal,” declared Ko\u00e7. “Firing someone who, above all, is a friend was hard. Being eliminated by Benfica was not a problem, but the way we were eliminated was unacceptable. This made me feel that last year’s football would continue. We parted ways because we believed that this squad would play better football at this moment.”<\/p>\n\nAli Ko\u00e7, President of Fenerbahce<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"Jos\u00e9<\/figure>\n\n\nKo\u00e7 believes Mourinho’s defensive tactics were holding the team back.\n\n“We knew our coach would emphasize defense when we brought him in,” he said. “But we talked about the need to play more dominantly at the end of the season. Scoring 99 goals and getting 99 points [as Fenerbahce had done in the Super League in the 2023-24 season] is our genetic code.”\n\nHowever, Ko\u00e7 does not regret having hired Mourinho more than a year ago, despite the fact that the coach did not win any titles during his time in Istanbul.\n\nFenerbahce finished second in the Super League, 11 points behind their rivals Galatasaray, who eliminated Mourinho’s team in the quarter-finals of the Turkish Cup. They were eliminated from the Europa League by Rangers.\n\n“Bringing him here was a great success,” said Ko\u00e7. “Our chemistry worked, the successes were there.”\n\n\n
\"Alic<\/figure>\n\n\nFenerbahce is expected to announce Mourinho’s successor soon and, according to Ko\u00e7, it will likely be another foreign coach.\n\n“Luciano Spalletti was our first choice, but he decided not to work this season,” he said. “Due to the large number of foreign players on our team, we believe the coach should be someone foreign with European experience. We are in contact with several and will announce our new coach very soon.”\n\nUnder Mourinho’s command, Fenerbahce began the new season by adding four points in their first two league matches.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ali Ko\u00e7 Explains Mourinho’s Departure from Fenerbahce Fenerbahce president Ali Ko\u00e7 has described the dismissal of Jos\u00e9 Mourinho as “painful” but necessary for the team to play “better football.” Mourinho was fired by Fenerbahce on August 29, after the team’s 1-0 aggregate defeat to Benfica in the Champions League qualifying rounds. “Why did we fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[793,2123,795,5625],"class_list":{"0":"post-32587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-fenerbahce","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jose-mourinho","11":"tag-sacking"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}