Rio Ferdinand believes Jose Mourinho's recent actions at Tottenham look all too familiar.
Mourinho is in the midst of his most difficult spell at Spurs, who are ninth in the Premier League and nine points off West Ham in fourth after losing to the Hammers last weekend.
The experienced Portuguese manager is under increasing pressure after winning just one of his last four games across all competitions and with hopes of achieving Champions League qualification fading quickly.
There is still hope Mourinho can turn things around particularly after a positive performance in the 4-1 win over Wolfsberger in the Europa League last week.
But according to former Manchester United defender-turned-pundit Ferdinand, the situation is all too familiar to other instances in Mourinho's career when things have gone south.
Mourinho's considerable success in England, Spain, Italy and Portugal has tended to be characterised with how rapidly he falls out of favour, with owners, players and fans, in particular at Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester United.
“Listen, if you look at his recent history of the way it’s ended for him at clubs, this is very similar to what we’ve seen before," he said on his podcast. "Results aren’t going to plan, there’s some disgruntled players, he’s prickly in the press.
"All of the common things that we’ve seen in recent jobs and how it’s finished, it’s rearing its head again.
“It doesn’t look great, but if he can have some turnaround in results, maybe things can be different.”
Mourinho has been at Spurs since November of 2019 and he intends to stay and fight through the difficult spell, saying hin his press conference on Tuesday: "It’s a positive thing that you say I am not used to it and my career is being the opposite of this.
"That’s a great thing. But I want to know which coach in the end of his career can say everything was blue sky and never a little bit grey or cloudy or even dark.
"Unless it’s a coach that was always in dominant clubs where the clubs were always the top clubs in countries and then it’s more difficult to have difficult moments but I think just show how beautiful my career has been.
"Does this make me happy? No. Does this make me depressed? Not at all. It’s a challenge. I always feel that I work for the clubs, I work for the players, for the supporters of the club.
"I always feel that I have to give them so much and the fact I’m giving them hard work but not the results is something that of course hurts me and is a great challenge for me because I believe I can give it."
