No it's not just blind faith.
A lot of people hammer Jose and say stuff like
he is no longer an elite manager because he doesn't win the league or CL any more and that's how they should be judged. My word, in that case how many managers around truly are elite? Klopp won the CL last season, fair do's but he won feck all with Liverpool before that. Poch still hasn't won anything. In the same space of time at United Jose won the league cup (okay yeah, the smallest domestic trophy) and the Europa League (you know, the only European competition we were in that season). This is just disregarded as nothing for some reason, despite actually winning trophies.
For what it's worth, Poch and Klopp are elite managers in my mind,
but to just determine elite managers by winning the very biggest trophies year on year reduces the pool of the so called 'elite managers'.
It didn't go right for him here, and yes a lot of it was down to him, but there were certainly issues coming from the dressing room too. He won 2 major trophies in three years with us, reached another FA Cup final
and finished second in the league behind a great Man City team. Yes it imploded, and last season was a disaster, but to discount the rest of his tenure and say he is a has-been is over the top in my opinion.