Go Sports Life

Mourinho enjoys role reversal games, swapping places with his players and sometimes carrying out their orders while they act as manager. 

That's what happened to former Manchester United star Karel Poborsky when he told Mourinho- then in charge of Benfica- what position he wanted to play.  Mourinho, who saw Poborsky as a winger, called him in and said, "Right, you're the boss, why do you want to be playmaker?" 

He listened, let Poborsky pick his own place in the next match and took him off after half an hour.

Poborsky says, "Mourinho then told me, 'Right, I'm the manager again.  I gave you the chance to prove you were right and you proved nothing.  You will play where I tell you from now on, and if you do not want to, you'll play in the reserves.'"

Pg 19