I don't agree he had no pace. He just read the game so well, he didn't need to use it. A few pages back somebody posted a clip of an interception where he is definitely rapid.
I was a regular in Villa Moura - never saw him, but asked the manager and he confirmed that he was a regular - same seat, peri peri chicken.
The restaurant went down the pan a few years later - last time I went, me and the missus had got through two bottles of wine by the time the food arrived, partly because we were alkies, mainly because of the abysmally slow service.
Have subsequently learned some Portuguese, and very sad I'll never get to thank Jorge in his own language.
I think what I loved most was that, when we played the big sides, Man U, Chelsea etc, I felt a lot of our players lacked a bit of self belief and mentally they'd already lost before they got on the pitch. But Jorge Costa had no respect for reputations - "Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, get in my pocket and stay there".
So sad he's gone, but will be a privilege to sing his name on Saturday.
Does anyone know what happened to make him fall out of favour at Porto and subsequently join us on loan?
must have been something catastrophic to move a world class player out of the club?
Fell out it with the manager. Came to us as he needed to be playing regularly in advance of the World Cup.
Manager went in the summer, Mourinho came in and the rest is history.
Costa came back at the start of the following season with his Porto side to play Charlton in John Robinson's testimonial. May have imagined this, but I think he also brought Braga over for a friendly when he was their manager.
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RIP Jorge!
The restaurant went down the pan a few years later - last time I went, me and the missus had got through two bottles of wine by the time the food arrived, partly because we were alkies, mainly because of the abysmally slow service.
Have subsequently learned some Portuguese, and very sad I'll never get to thank Jorge in his own language.
I think what I loved most was that, when we played the big sides, Man U, Chelsea etc, I felt a lot of our players lacked a bit of self belief and mentally they'd already lost before they got on the pitch. But Jorge Costa had no respect for reputations - "Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, get in my pocket and stay there".
So sad he's gone, but will be a privilege to sing his name on Saturday.
must have been something catastrophic to move a world class player out of the club?
Manager went in the summer, Mourinho came in and the rest is history.
Costa came back at the start of the following season with his Porto side to play Charlton in John Robinson's testimonial. May have imagined this, but I think he also brought Braga over for a friendly when he was their manager.