Yes, to an extent. But he didn't have a clue how to fix it.
Absolute and utter garbage, hang your head in shame posting such laughable, sensationalist drivel.Of course he was right about some things but he was a terrible manager who only had himself to blame. He probably would have had as struggling for 7th by now and there are plenty of problems he created for Ole.
It's astonishing that after 6 transfer windows under Mou that out of the remaining Jose buys, I'd only keep Pogba, Lindelof, Fred and Dalot. And not one of them has even been an undeniable success so far. No wonder our squad is shite when we can't get our transfer business right.Well why did he waste £50m on a CM that he barely played and then moan we ain’t got a CB.
Why did he spend money on a right back that had played ten games or so and then moan Young is going to play 50 games?
He signed Lindelof and Bailly. He signed Lukaku, Matic and Fred. How many of those do we want to keep? He was a big problem too as he wasted lots of money on duds.
Nonsense. Perisic would have been one more dud on high wages we struggle to offload.For one, we would have been better off with Perisic. People didn’t want him because of Martial and now people realise it wasn’t Jose that was holding Martial back. Players like Perisic and Willian would go up a level under Jose as well and would have helped our build up and transition. Willian is a PL winner and Perisic just reached a world cup final.
He was a terrible manager look at the league table when he left, the mood at the club and his behaviour. It’s laughable how quickly people forget the mess we were in and Mourinho was a huge part of that even if he was ‘runner up in the FA Cup’ (bet that’s on his CV). How did he keep us above Liverpool? One season out of three and did you watch his last game in charge?. Who looked the better team in that game?. Think you should hang your head for that one alone and that’s one of most laughable statements I’ve seen in a long time. He couldn’t even keep us above Arsenal.Absolute and utter garbage, hang your head in shame posting such laughable, sensationalist drivel.
A 'terrible manager' who won a European final, a League Cup, F.A Cup runner up and finished 2nd just last season, above Liverpool and Tottenham...
If OGS achieved even half of that you'd be heralding him as a success.
And then using Mourinho to excuse the current manager from any present / future failings. Pathetic stuff.
Mourinho needed to go - he made it so that he had to after he was hung out to dry by Woodward and he lost the dressing room.
But he won trophies here, and he kept us above Liverpool - he is our most successful manager post SAF.
And if Mourinho had received VVD rather than Klopp, we'd be above Liverpool still - albeit playing rubbish football.
Wrong. Completely wrong. If anything, the irony is Martial is now the dud on high wages.Nonsense. Perisic would have been one more dud on high wages we struggle to offload.
No, they were. Everything shit was joses fault and once he was gone everything would be merry. Even now they cant admit they were wrong and place the blame where it needs to be placed. Im not even 100% sure his signings were his. He seemed to buy players and then not use them, or struggle to fit them in to what he wanted to do.I don't think anyone was disagreeing with his assessment of the state of the players, club etc. Pretty much everyone disagreed with how he went about trying to resolve it though. In the end he proved his methodology couldn't work here. He did well to win some trophies though and his assessment that 2nd was his best achievement doesn't look quite so facetious in retrospect.
People complaining about width, build up and transitions and sit there scratching their ass wondering why we have these problems. Yes Perisic would have made us a better team. Actually watch how he operates across the whole length of the pitch and his qualities in all three phases of attack.I can't believe someone actually said we should have bought Perisic and Willian. This is truly the end of days.
Or when we won't the title in 12/13.I don't remember him being here when we were embarrassed in the EL back in 2012
You're correct in your assessment of course. No one is blameless.
He was right though in what he said
dud is being too kind. Saying that though, playing along side lingard must be soul destroying.Wrong. Completely wrong. If anything, the irony is Martial is now the dud on high wages.
Not sure what you think he could have done? He was the manager, or are he said eventually "im just a coach", implying that woodward was playing millionaires football manager. Which would explain why jose didnt seem to have play for some players we brought in.Jose was pointing out the issues, without acknowledging that he was one of them! instead of fixing these so called wrongs he just shifted blame from one thing to another.
Absolute and utter garbage, hang your head in shame posting such laughable, sensationalist drivel.
A 'terrible manager' who won a European final, a League Cup, F.A Cup runner up and finished 2nd just last season, above Liverpool and Tottenham...
If OGS achieved even half of that you'd be heralding him as a success.
And then using Mourinho to excuse the current manager from any present / future failings. Pathetic stuff.
Mourinho needed to go - he made it so that he had to after he was hung out to dry by Woodward and he lost the dressing room.
But he won trophies here, and he kept us above Liverpool - he is our most successful manager post SAF.
And if Mourinho had received VVD rather than Klopp, we'd be above Liverpool still - albeit playing rubbish football.
What do you disagree with from that, specifically?
Apart from the complete adulation for Mourinho, how about the bit about Ole being heralded a success having done half of what Jose managed?What do you disagree with from that, specifically?
This.He was definitely right. The signs were there to see as well. His approach to dealing with it, however, wasn't right.
It's so obvious people don't even watch players, they post randomly.Wrong. Completely wrong. If anything, the irony is Martial is now the dud on high wages.
This is it. He is one of the big reasons we aren't one of the best teams but his finger is pointed at everyone except himself. The only reason our form has dropped is the players aren't fit enough for Ole ball after months of bus parking.Imagine complaining about lack of quality after you yourself have spent 2.5 years building the squad. And then proceeding to exacerbate the problem with your tactics and coaching.
We are also still feeling the effects of his diabolical training methods which has left us severely unconditioned for the most critical phase of our season.
Mourinho's opinion is worthless and irrevelant.
Oh trust me, everything I have been saying about Martial for two years, people are starting to agree with. The excuse of Jose is now gone for Anthony.It's so obvious people don't even watch players, they post randomly.
Exactly he was unfairly treated yet the fans were ready to suck Ole off at the first chance they had. If you are not going to back your coach than no shet he wont succeed.de Gea
Valencia - CB - CB - Young
Matic - Pogba
Mata - Lingard - MR/AM/AS
Lukaku
That was probably what our eleven was during the season (certainly at home) when we finished 2nd. Someone sit there and tell me what the fans would think of that eleven now. Yet it is what got us to 2nd in the league. Even on paper you can see the deficiencies in build up and transition. Now going into the summer the manager should be backed to fix these problems, but he wasn't. Woodward is a total clown.
If you move Pogba from the deeper area we lose a big factor in our build up and transition. Even now people don't seem to understand that. People wonder why Lingard looks half the player playing on the right. They didn't understand the role Mata and Lingard played in their respective positions. Or the relatinship of Lukaku the number 9, and Lingard the number 10. The answer as to why Martial was not playing better was that Jose was holding him back. There was soo much said that year yet we finished 2nd. Someone explain it to me.