People really believe José picked the players? It seems they dont know how a club works. There's manager requests sure but most are from a list of players the club is able to sign. It depends a lot on the agents the club deals with.
Do you really think the manager who raised to stardom players such as Ricardo Carvalho, Maniche, Paulo Ferreira, Carlos Alberto, Essien, Drogba, Mikel, Robben, Cech, William, Matic, etc etc, doesn't know a thing or two about players? What was SAF smoking when he bought Bebé? How many signings did SAF get right during his tenure and how many got wrong? Doesn't matter. The point is managers can't control if a player will make it or not and most aren't first, second or third choice. They are what's possible and usually it's better than nothing.
The fact is you have a bunch of morons running the club, giving authority to overrated and weak minded players. Undermining a serial winner's work and one of the best tacticians of the modern game. Very few managers can influence a match the way Mourinho can. Even with lazy ass players he had here he still gave you more tactical masterclasses against Klopp and Pepe than you will probably see anytime soon.
Fans are bitter and stupid as well. Mostly spoiled. Even during the 4-0 period people were unhappy, getting offended with press conferences and shit like that. They wanted tiki taka but with the United way. Mourinho was the closest you got to the United Way. Being a threat to any team until the final whistle. You wanted United to be more like City? A soulless plastic club that serves purely as an experiment for Pep. City is his lab, the players and fans the rats. You think about City, Pepe and his overly attacking (almost unnatural) football comes to mind, not the club. You take him away and what's left? Not much.
Not backing Mourinho was just another grave mistake by a poorly run club. Since SAF, the symptoms were there but his intelligence and authority kept the ship steady. Although i believe he left just at the right time. Next they will kick Olé out as there's not much he can really do with this set of over paid cowards.
Also, it's pure disonesty to use Jose's last season here for any argument simply because he and his staff team were not on the same page as the board and some key players, having his job completely undermined.
Alas! It's time to move on. Think instead how will you get rid of players on abusrd wages for a few more years instead. Players that hide behind injuries when things get tough. José wanted to change that, he failed, OGS is trying to change as well, perhaps too much but it's clear in his conferences. 'players work hard' 'players are good' and 'change' are the usual keywords. Will he make it or will be go? Let's find out...