Ultimately buck stops with the manager. He has assembled a team of brutes. A lot of physicality but very little footballing ability and very lacking in technical ability. People should not be surprised at the style of our football. The lack of intensity IMO is directly related to the nature of the team. Too slow, too weak. Valencia, Smalling, Young, Matic, Fellaini, Lukaku, Mata all players who fall into this category. These are our so called senior players. We need deftness of touch, trickery instead we have this cumbersome group of players. We lack players with a low centre of gravity. Players that can beat a man. Look at Knockaert and Izqueirdo today. Years ago they might have been playing for United.
We seem to play in short bursts. Something is lacking. Very rarely are we able to put teams under sustained pressure. We only step it up when we go behind and even that is due to initial burst of adrenaline when you are losing and start to get a bit desperate. Players take it more into their own hands. And even then we are still clueless because there's no defined style of play and no rehearsed patterns of play that we can fall back on. Mourinho for me is the biggest problem of all and has to change the profile of player he is signing in the future if he wants to be successful. The tactics are disgraceful at times but the personnel is lacking too. Mourinho is responsible for both things so I wouldn't be unhappy to see the back of him really because I can only see things getting worse from here. There are a lot of average/mediocre players that's he's decided to keep and are not of the required standard to play for United. So he shouldn't feel let down when those players don't perform. These players must be discarded. Then he should be working hard with another group of players on getting the best out of them consistently instead of throwing them under the bus when things aren't coming off always. He has failed to do both these things so I can't feel too sorry for him.