So is he?
The last time we picked up silverware was FOUR years ago under Jose.
And will Ole eventually win a trophy next season? or will the drought continue?
He won some trophies, so based on that yes. But people weren't happy with the football, plus the media circus he brings doesn't work at all with the extra focus and extra scrutiny we get. A match made in hell, and he seems a spent force in football these days.
Also worth remembering that it's not Ole's fault we haven't won anything in that long, Mourinho was in charge to 2 of those seasons post the trophy wins. He was sacked part way through that last season as the football was terrible and the results were bad too. As a match-goer, it felt a bit like you'd accept a bit of a trade off that if the football wasn't that great that at least the results would be there, but we had neither.
People want United to play on the front foot, exciting, attacking, the "United way" - what we got under Mourhinho was often overly defensive & rarely exciting. I wasn't happy to see him arrive (right manager, wrong time - he'd have been better to follow Sir Alex) & was glad to see him go. But I felt that he had to come in and work with what he had and be pragmatic. Pragmatic often meant over-defensive & nobody was that into the football we played. Clearly it was going to take multiple transfer windows for him to reshape the team and I suspect that in the end, as the football wasn't great, that the club just thought we can't back this guy fully. With every failure, the following manager's jobs got harder, plus the poor period dragged on further, thus adding even more to that pressure. After that initial peak, we'd regressed massively under Mourhino, getting the club back on track and back into a place where players want to come to has been a big task.
So I'd say Jose causing us to regress and crash and burn is a black mark on his record.
We just lost a Europa League to a ridiculously fine margin. Yes we should have won it in normal time, or course. But we were beaten by a team who play in a way that we struggle to break down. A pragmatic, defensive and Mourinho-esque performance from Villareal, ironically. It's 100% clear to me that investment is what we need, some of which can be funded by sales. In retrospect, Ole was slow to make subs in the final, but we have a thin squad, we'd played 61 games 2nd only to City, as as we know City has the most expensive sports squad in the world (featuring zero youth players aside from Foden). City literally have 2 teams
Tiny margin