Ahh fair enough.
Yeah I know, I like sarcasm.
I'll give it a read, cheers. Just ordered a copy.
Almost.
His entire approach to the transfer market was appalling.
It depends on what you define a successful stint as.
No, it's not acceptable. Because in the contesxt of Manchester United finishing out of top 4 twice in three years after spending +300m in transfers and increasing the wage bill by +100m is a pretty bad return. He also acted like a twat for several months, so excuse us if we don't have a lot of good things to say about his time at United. And our games were terrible to watch.
I genuinely feel a tinge of sympathy for you.
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I read the whole thing on a plane journey. It was fascinating. The players have obviously leaked the stories and there are som great ones.
Yea. Its the hope that kills you like it did with us.
He is our most successful manager post Fergie , but he caused a lot of the damage to the club, too. He caused more damage than he brought success.
So, out of the hundreds of millions spent, strictly speaking about their time here under José, we only have one outright success and he was free!
Depends what you mean by doing well though, they clearly haven't been doing well otherwise they'd have caught up Chelsea who have played like dog shit for months. He's been doing just about enough to not get too much pressure on him.
I've always had a soft spot for Jose, and I was a bit sad things didn't work out for him here.
Tbh it did seem like the obvious appointment at the time, looking at it from the perspective that he would deliver our first and vitally important title since SAF. He had won it recently with Chelsea and LVG was looking nowhere close to doing it.
Nobody has had their results scrutinised as much in that period is a safe bet.
I'm just not sure why you're so keen to throw everyone under the bus in defence of his knobend. And if you think this is just revisionism, here's what I thought of him after a month of managing us...
...and here's what I was saying about him a couple of months before winning the Europa League:
Mourinho's pattern is really obvious to everyone willing to look at it soberly. He just seems to be quite good at getting people to buy into this idea that he's suffering under unbearable conditions and if only people would give him what he wanted, he'd demonstrate his worth.
He is our most successful manager post Fergie , but he caused a lot of the damage to the club, too. He caused more damage than he brought success.
Sevilla onwards he was constantly shitting on the club left, right and centre; itching for the sack.
So, out of the hundreds of millions spent, strictly speaking about their time here under José, we only have one outright success and he was free!
Yep.
I’m the same way! I loved his Inter teams and Chelsea teams. I also thought that his Porto triumph is the greatest footballing achievement that I have seen in my lifetime. It’s Football Manager stuff.
He won a league cup final which Southampton outplayed us in. Parked the bus vs Ajax.
First stage of Moutities.
I do too. He will learn though. Even the most die-hard Mourinho apologists on the Caf put a lid on it after a while (they aren't even in this thread).
I'd say it was the person who gave him the extension at fault as well as the fanbase who pressed the club into giving the extension so early.
Oh God I keep getting flashbacks to him managing us coming out with this sort of negative miserable shit constantly.
Yeah that's the way I always saw it anyway. I look forward to reading about the details.
Mouboobs?
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pre season 2018 vibes.
Ha ha. Same as what happened with us. Blame everyone and everything except himself.
Yep, probably start playing Sissoko or Winks up front to prove a point.
