This season he has been dire. I'm not just talking about the football, but as a man. He became a miserable, stubborn embarrassment and it almost overshadowed the performances of the team. Watching his Press Conferences made me cringe. What happened to the Jose who first came to England - the smiling breath of fresh air. I do feel somewhat sad, as I wanted that person at our club, but should I feel sad? If Jose had any passion for United, why did he make no attempt to move to the area? Either he knew he was never going to succeed, or he never had any intention of staying.
How can anyone earn such a ridiculous amount of money when constantly making so many blatant errors in judgement, and in team selection, in tactics, when those of us on a pittance could see what the problems were. It began to seem that Jose had a grudge against the club and has been determined to bring them down - revenge for not getting Harry Maguire?
Why did he make so many changes week after week, especially following good performances which should have been a basis for forming a proper team, for creating cohesion and unity, instead of putting out eleven players who often looked like either they just met, or they didn't like each other. Why did he persist in using players out of position instead of where they excelled. Why did he immediately drop players who had performed well but maybe not so in the next game, yet constantly persist with players who under-performed every game.
There are far too many players who came to OT with a good reputation and haven't reached potential - surely too many for it to be coincidence. Players who have been good before, and after being at United, though this trend has been obvious for years, even as far back as Fergie.
But I might have forgiven him if he had ever smiled and showed the kind of enthusiasm shown by Saints new manager, or if he'd been a little more amenable and polite in his dealings with the Press, annoying as they may be. I don't remember any other time when I wished our manager was more like those at City and Liverpool. I even started making sure my milk was in the fridge out of harm's way....I don't want to be as embarrassed by the public persona of our manager as much as I was by the team performances. He used to be likeable. He should have been upbeat just because he was manager of Manchester United.
Maybe now we can go back to playing defenders as defenders, midfielders as midfielders, strikers as strikers, right sided players on the right, left sided players on the left. Maybe then we can actually start judging the players correctly.