because those were players who are spineless and couldn’t cut it to be warriors and fighters. Jose is demanding. The winners he has coached over the years have all loved him. The sulkers and lazy players like pogba and Martial hate his types.
Do you think the players know better than the manager? There may be one or two very seasoned players on some teams that may be able to understand the overall tactical details that go into preparing for a match. Most players see the game so much more clearly when they become coaches/managers.
I refuse to believe this. Jose has favouritism like coentrao over marcelo at Real Madrid. Spine had nothing to do with this. Did Sanchez have a better spine that Martial or Rashford - no, not really and as a manager the guy put him as a direct competition against 2 of our best performing LW in the mid-season on form rather than fitting in to a gap at RW. Again that is favouritism.
What about Lukaku? How is his work ethic and his spine? Just as rubbish and everyone else's & he is the epitome & label of Jose's tenure and tactics of preference of strength and individual work rather than a team's capacity to play together to unlock an opposition defence.
And that's why some Jose fans still go crazy over him- because Jose targets some good individuals - however, these can be extremely old, extremely one dimensional in a footballing sense, only good for the short term or only good for Jose.
Ultimately after Jose's traditional 3 year tenure's thst he spends at his clubs, these problems starts turning up & usually after his most successful 2nd season (in our case, our 2nd spot season) - his favouritism towards certain players, the need to change tactics that never change, the extreme defensive tactics whilst playing lower level clubs whilst there is even a lack of injuries, his ability to ruin the mood of his most and best performing players (Hazards, Ronaldo, & in our case it was martial), his ageing squad starts getting shown after 3 years to their passports, him being a negative aspect of United to the media, to the public, applying pressure to the team like he isn't part of us whilst also getting in trouble with the people above him like a spoilt child.
Jose is the definition of a short term manager & to expect him to perform post 3 years indicates that he was planning things for the long term. I sincerely doubt he would have done that.
The willian's, the perisic's, Matic, the Sanchez, the Lukaku could do a job for Jose on his 2nd season at a club but these type of players start rotting like cheese at 3rd & 4th seasons - so I am happy he didn't get to buy what he wanted.
The only manager who had a long term plan and a philosophy of how this club should play was Van Gaal. He had 11 players working together playing football in a way that we could improve directly proportional to the quality of player we had.
In comparison - Jose 10 indidividuals, some hard working in his eyes and with a spine, some that he didn't like without giving them a try or trying them in the best positions - all just simply supplying Ibrahimovic or Lukaku as a sole attacking output.
That type of football used to be able to win the league for Jose but it just isn't that great anymore - not in the PL in comparison to possession and counterpressing style that many clubs play and not just City and Liverpool. He may have done well to have come 2nd in his 2nd season - but the fact he didn't win the leagye shows that his tactics are just starting to age; but unfortunately not like fine wine.