No Indeed I can, and have done repeatedly. Yet no matter how many times your illogical inconsistencies are rebuffed it’s returned with staunch, baseless criticisms of one of the most successful managers in the history of the game. I will however apologise for the overzealous insults, no matter how nonsensical I find your point of view, you don’t deserve that level of vitriol. Sorry for that. Let’s go through step by step some of the points put forward by you and others shall we?
We should look to Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea on how to play attacking football. They have scored less goals than we have this season. Categorically and emphatically they HAVE NOT attacked better than we have so far this season. The purpose of attacking is to score goals. We have scored more goals therefore we have attacked better. There is no arguing that.
Those aforementioned teams all finished above us last season.
Correct. And now they are below us because we have improved under Mourinho. How this is seen as a valid criticism of Jose is beyond me.
Because we have outspent them. Correct. Jose has also spent far less than Pep, despite having an inferior team than he to begin with. You can’t cherry pick when expenditure is important and when it isn’t.
LVG finished higher the season before Jose took over.
We were never winning the league last season. Our objective was to get back into the champions league. It (should be) entirely obvious Jose prioritised the europa cup over finishing top 4. Jose chose the route that came with a trophy and a higher seeding. Again no genuine criticisms can me made here.
We have the most expensively assembled team in the league.
That doesn’t mean it’s the best. Prior to Jose’s arrival, even after his first season, it was the popular opinion here to think City, Spurs and Chelsea had a better team than we did. If they had a better team, then why would the cost of the squad prior to Jose’s arrival be levied against how the team has performed under him? A month or two ago we were being told how amazing Spurs are. They had a better team and a better manager than we did. Surely it must be a masterstroke for Jose to be sitting above them in the league then?
We are Manchester United. We shouldn’t be happy with second place.
No one is happy with us finishing behind City, but, in the words of The Bloody Nine, you have to be realistic about these things. Our squad was a state and we had 4 managers in the space of 3 years, all with a different approach and player profile for how they wanted to play. We are seeing steady improvement since his appointment. We are winning trophies, back in the Champions League, signing talent, scoring more goals, conceding less and are on course to finishing higher in the league. If our progression does stagnate then perhaps some of these criticisms would be justified, but for now, why don’t we let him do his job?