UnofficialDevil
Anti Scottish and Preoccupied with Donkeys.
Its so obvious now why all the players where so happy when Ole took over, they where all like. ‘’Now we can do what ever the feck we want!’
He also wanted to bring in Maguire, Dier and Willian.He tried to get rid of Martial and Pogba three years ago and he was ridiculed. He was very right with his analysis of those two.
Jose was pretty toxic for you. It was an odd situation of toxic manager vs toxic player (Pogba)X. That being said he did say a lot of things that made sense. It was the delivery that was dreadful.Problem with Jose is he's not balanced enough and can resort to a bad style of play just to get results. He would carry on being an expensive disaster on shipping in and shipping out. He brought in Pogba for 90 million and expected him to be mature enough to be a general midfielder, brought in Lukaku who has turned out similar at Chelsea. Brought in Sanchez to overwrite Martial Rashford on mega wages. Signed Dalot. Wanted Maguire and no doubt would be insisting he's replaced after a short time. He's right about a few things but has proved to be wrong on so many.
In the end there's some small truths from Jose and LVG. Jose said we're a sad club when he arrived and admitted towards the end he needed help with players, he lost Rui and the club hoped Jose could do more on his own. LVG was stunned by how much we lacked in structure for a big club and had to hastily come up with targets, secure top 4 and we ended up with a lot of failures. We desperately need top people running the club for the Glazers like the owners of City and Chelsea do that have a goal, a plan and authority along with a current top manager. I've been saying this for a long time and Ralf has just said the same. ETH could be the right man at the wrong club if he's not supported well, we could be feeding a man to the wolves.
Mistakes do happen, Chelsea generally recruit better. City have shipped a couple out as well.
I think you're taking my point too literal, I'm well aware of Ed.Jose was pretty toxic for you. It was an odd situation of toxic manager vs toxic player (Pogba)X. That being said he did say a lot of things that made sense. It was the delivery that was dreadful.
One thing he didn’t do though. Spend money. Just like Ole being blamed for extending contracts - that’s the CEOs job, not his. This negative period was brought to you by Ed, who controlled everything.
Where is that half ? His only remaining signings that are playing regularly are Lindelof, Fred and Pogba, and he fell with the last one by the end of his time here. Guess what, we're still playing absolute shit football.He recruited half off the team that couldn't play modern football. So he is hardly right.
Welcome to red cafeI've seen people he was right about Shaw when he was here, then wrong about Shaw when he hit good form, then right about Shaw when his form dropped off again.
A good perspective on Jose and his time at OT.Of course he was right. He needed backing when the going got tough. Instead, we proceeded to allow players to buy in to their own inflated self-worth by squeezing every last commercial juice from them. Their egos got bigger and didn't allow room for any manager to tell them where they were going wrong, much less a big ego like Mourinho.
Jose was hard done by at Utd, that is proving itself to be true.
Our revenues may be better in the short / medium term by utilising players' commercial value, but there is real long term damage with too much power being transferred to the players each season.
He was right and the summer broke the relationship really. After that I'm not sure it was viable for him to stay.Of course he was right. He needed backing when the going got tough. Instead, we proceeded to allow players to buy in to their own inflated self-worth by squeezing every last commercial juice from them. Their egos got bigger and didn't allow room for any manager to tell them where they were going wrong, much less a big ego like Mourinho.
Jose was hard done by at Utd, that is proving itself to be true.
Our revenues may be better in the short / medium term by utilising players' commercial value, but there is real long term damage with too much power being transferred to the players each season.
Jose was not hard done at all. He was toxic and should never have been near the club. The club spent lots of money to bring players in for him and a truly top class manager would have worked with that. Instead he does what he always does when he cant get instant success, throw his toys out the pram. Look at some of the players he was desperate for like Perisic, look at Dalot he did bring in. I remember one match where out of nowhere he started McTominay at centre back despite having several options of actual CBs. THat was a clear f you to Woodward, but he was too dim to even realise that. Horrible, horrible manager. Cant believe the revisionist shit on here.He was right and the summer broke the relationship really. After that I'm not sure it was viable for him to stay.
The club should have listened to him and taken onboard his views but it's hard to say if they should have backed his decisions or not.
It reality not only did they dismiss his decisions they dismissed his reasoning. We leaped towards the opposite and thats a big part of why we're at this position with toxic unsuitable players.
Hi strong personal characteristics were mainly petulance and self obsession. He never built anything and never will, motivated through fear and anger. Again, horrible manager who should never have been at the club. DOnt get this obsession with all our past mistakes. He was already on a downward spiral, but good old Ed too stupid to realiseHe may be right in his analysis but he had the chance to change the direction of the club through his strong personal characteristics but failed miserably.
What did he sus out? He bought Pogba, and his Martal replacement was Lukaku.He certainly sussed out Pogba and Martial early on. Hindsight’s a wonderful thing though.
What they did was finish second, ahead of Liverpool. It's gone to shit since, but dragging Solskjear out of the mean spirited dumpster fire he was left in seems needlessly churlish.Its so obvious now why all the players where so happy when Ole took over, they where all like. ‘’Now we can do what ever the feck we want!’
Come on man, Liverpool had 54 points this time last year, finishing ahead of Liverpool last year was no accomplishment. Ole was shite.What they did was finish second, ahead of Liverpool.
Maybe he wasn't clairvoyant, just observant. Maybe he was seeing in training then what we are seeing on the pitch now. Pretty much every player at this club could feck right off and I wouldn't loss a moment of sleep, but I do wonder if we backed Mourinho and not the players if we might have actually done something. And it seems like the players Mourinho had the biggest issues with are the ones that are currently causing us the most issues.No. Jose was not right. He was toxic and had a problem with most of the players by the end. The fact that some of the players have turned out to be unworthy of the shirt doesn't make him clairvoyant.
and Rashford too. I think any one or two of Martial Pogba Rashford Lingard and now greenwood could have been carried/protected by more intense players but not all of them together. It was just turning way too spice boys and Jose saw it coming. Think about attribute wise Pogba was perfect. Nobody could tell the rest of the academy lads would start acting more like celebrities after he arrived or that Pogba would reject his coaching and any challenge he laid down for him. It feels like lads just shrug their shoulders and wait for the manager to get fired when things get tough and it’s worked for them over and over nowHe certainly sussed out Pogba and Martial early on. Hindsight’s a wonderful thing though.
He was right with Pogba being a virus (harsh description imo but you got his point) He was right wanting to offload Martial which was only to be blocked by the Glazers on multiple occasions. He was right at the time to question Shaw's focus and professionalism. And he was right about Rashford not being a natural Centre Forward. And he was right the squad was too too soft.About Pogba? Yes
How to find fault in everything and fix nothing.But what does football manager Jose Mourinho know?