Even the most divisive figures in sport are occasionally capable of unifying opinions.
Whether they worship or vilely, any experienced observer of José Mourinho will attest to his ability to prosper in moments of controversy and use permitted disagreements to promote his agenda.
A manager whose imposing success in football has always been a formula that is a tactical psychological war on the one hand, the Portuguese is back in his happy place. Truculent, belligerent and just exchange insults with the enemy.
This could mean problems for rangers while preparing to land in Istanbul before the shock of the Europa League of Europe in Thursday with Fenerbahce.
The last entry of the 62 -year -old player in the great book of the Darks of Football, is certainly among the litany of flash points that have scored his career.
Speaking after the goalless draw last week in the derby against Galatasaray, Mourinho said the local bank had been “jumping like monkeys.”
José Mourinho is harassed by Turkish followers in his presentation as head of Fenerbahce
Mourinho has had many clashes in the years, especially with the old enemy Ursene Wenger
This led Fenerbahce's bitter rivals accusing Mourinho of making 'racist statements'.
Like Didier Drogba, a former Galatasaray player, defended his former Chelsea manager, along with his former Blues Michael Essien and William Gallas partner,
Mourinho filed a lawsuit sought 1,907,000 Turkish lyre in damages (1907 was the year his current club formed). You could be forgiven for believing that you have heard everything before.
This is, after all, the man who, while he was in Stamford Bridge, caused the premature retirement of Anders Frisk after accusing the referee of bias to Barcelona.
He also found time on the King's road to call the then manager of Ursene Wenger, both “un voyeur” and “a specialist in failure.”
Among the other low lights of a career with greater success, but under class was the moment, as Real Madrid manager, when he pushed the Barcelona Tito Villanova assistant in the eye.
During a preseason in the USA. In her last toxic days in Manchester United, Mourinho said that “he only hoped to survive and not have very ugly results”, while offering sympathy to the extreme Alexis Sánchez for having to deal with “these players around him.”
Then, two years ago, he directed a dirty pearly to the referee Anthony Taylor in the Budapest parking lot after his Romaní team lost the Europa League final against Seville with penalties.
As Chelsea Chief, Mourinho was at its peak in terms of his powers and confrontations
Intimidating party officials is a kind of specialized issue. His repeated criticism of the standard of the referees in Turkey has been a recurring theme since he took Fenerbahce's work last summer with his last burst that cost him a prohibition of four and four games that later reduced to half.
Mourinho's continuous criticisms to the standard of officials led Slovenno Slavko Vinci to take care of the last derby from which accusations of racism arose.
In Turkish football in general last November, he said: 'No one abroad wants to see the Turkish league. Why should they see this? It is too gray, it is too dark, it smells bad. There is nothing like selling your own product, right?
So, if it is so unpleasant, why are you there? This is a man who has won more than £ 100 million with the bagings and rejected a more lucrative offer with Al Qadisiyah in Saudi Arabia to move to Istanbul. Therefore, motivation can hardly be financial.
With the works within the five best leagues in Europe that dried for the first time since Porto was moved to Chelsea in 2004, Mourinho seems to have settled with the next best option.
Fenerbahce can be much second in terms of its European position, but its support is vast and passionate, as it likes.
While his 19 absolute titles are impressive, his last arrived in 2014, with Galatasaray, 24 championships and counting, the most successful team in Türkiye. Building a siege mentality with a loser was always right in its street.
The club's scale also attracts its gigantic ego. Thousands of fans greeted him to the airport upon arrival and then packed the stadium to see him sign his contract.
“First of all, I want to thank you for the love I felt at the first moment that my name was connected to Fenerbahçe,” Mourinho said. 'Normally, a coach is loved after the victories, but in this case, I feel that I am loved before the victories. The shirt is now my skin.
Say what you want about man, but he still knows what buttons to press. These last six words were immediately splashed in shirts that left the club's store in their stadium in the Kadikoy district.
His appointment was received as the gain of an important trophy and you can understand why.
Amolo to hate him, Mourinho changed the face of football. In the countryside, he won titles in four different countries and became only one of the six men to win the European Cup/Champions League with two separate clubs. He is the only man who has raised the three current European trophies.
Outside the field, he spoke in the headlines, often disparagingly of opponents, but it was always a compulsive visualization.
While his defensive football was not everyone's taste, his ability to take people distinguished him.
In Inter Milan, Wesley Sneijder said that 'he would kill or die' for him. They leave Stankovic said he would have 'thrown into a fire' to please him.
Mourinho's will to go to war on behalf of his players won his loyalty and inaccuing. It was a gang war with a football.
Fenerbahce is very happy to celebrate its dark side. In the same club store, there are clips of the Portuguese in a loop. However, it is not a assembly of it raising a trophy after trophy, but some of the innumerable moments of controversy.
Maybe that is indicative of where it is now. It is still a great noise, but not the winning machine that once was.
Mourinho is still considered a manager of the Champions League, but has not participated in that tournament since the Spurs were knocked out by RB Leipzig in the last 16 years five years ago.
Gone are the days when he won the UEFA Cup and the Champions League with Porto and then turned Chelsea into the best team in England.
That acute with Inter Milan is now 15 years ago, that historic triumph of the League with Madrid over the magnificent team of Barça de Pep Guardiola returned in 2012.
While the Europa League still won at Manchester United and the Conference League with Rome, he was finally fired by both clubs with a forgettable spell in the Spurs in the middle.
Although Mourinho has talked about his hope of emulating Sir Alex Ferguson (one of the few managers with whom he never fell) and driving in his 70 years, that only seems possible if he is prepared to work in leagues lower than his personality once dominated.
Bosphorus banks feel like the backdrop of their latest credible work in the game. The rangers will know that he does not plan to leave the stage in silence.