I'm not going to say he's finished, but he looks like the same guy who was on Chelsea's touchline last season when the bottom fell out. I don't see anything to indicate that he's back to the past manager that won titles or even could finish in the top half of the table. While there are still a lot of games to be played and we're doing alright in Europa and League Cup so far, today was damning. It was in a different context but I put this on the level of Moyes losing his first game against his old Everton, probably even worse. It was that bad.
When we hired Mourinho, I saw it as a quick-fix type of hiring where he would put his imprint on the team almost from the beginning and get us winning some games. Like was posted earlier, Mourinho doesn't even have the excuse LVG did of coming to a new league. He has been in this league for years and had months while out of a job to scout our existing players and have an idea of how he wanted to use them. Except for an odd few minutes, we don't seem to have any plan for getting forward and winning, which is a joke considering how much talent we do have.
Quite honestly, I think a few good/semi-decent results are covering up for how poorly he's done. For one, I think Ibrahimovic was a terrible signing for us. I like him and he will score goals but he's a 35-year-old striker coming from the continent who wasn't very fast to begin with. Ibra is the complete opposite of the striker that we badly needed last season, when Rooney was trudging around and failing again and again. Vardy, a quick-footed striker who can cut through the lines and is dangerous on counters (which actually would've fit Mourinho's style TBH), had put his name out in the transfer market but the club and fans seemed to want an anvil with a pony tail and cool accent. Pogba was also a ridiculous overspend when we could've gotten more support up front and another midfielder. Add to this the questions of where Miki. is and what he's doing (I found it a bit odd that he was in casual clothes for the Europa League match instead of the club jacket) and he's marginalized a world class MF in Schweinsteiger, who is not the same player he was but IMO doesn't deserve the shit he's gotten.
I'll readily admit that as a person, I think Mourinho is a piece of shit and it no doubt feeds my bias. But to say that he needs time when he's never a long-term manager is a real clutch at straws. I don't expect us to win every game, I don't expect us to even make a serious run at the title, I simply expect us to have a cohesive game plan, because I don't buy that our players aren't good enough. Mangers like Klopp, Bilic last season, Koeman, etc have set teams in cohesive plans with much less talent. We don't need a lineup of 11 world class players to look like we know what we're doing.
I'm not calling for him to be sacked, especially that there's no one around to step in, but his leash needs to be short. We can accept not being title contenders but results like today are beyond what this club should call acceptable.