Siorac
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No, 2nd wasn't unacceptable, that's rewriting history. The issue was that we were playing terrible football and most metrics showed that we're not actually the second best team. It's just the Mourinho fans always dismissed concerns that we actually create fewer chances than anyone in the top 6 and concede more chances than anyone in the top 6.I'm talking about pinions being said here. When he was the manager the opinion here was the squad was good enough and 2nd is unacceptable so we needed a manager to free them. Now he is the reason for the current mess we have because he built a crap squad. People need to make their mind.
Our squad was capable of better football than what we played under Mourinho. It's probably still capable of better football than what we're doing now, though contrary to some parrots in this thread, it's actually not the same squad that Mourinho finished second with: Herrera's gone, Matic's legs are completely gone, Young declined even further, Lukaku's gone (though I'll admit, he wasn't going to make us play better football).
Mourinho didn't coach the team well, his signings were mostly failures, his football was dire, and he was getting unhinged long before he "wasn't backed" in 2018, as the Sevilla rant shows.