What are you talking about? Mourinho played the formation towards the back end of last season quite a few times. All managers change. Do you think Fergie just stayed with 4-4-2 all the way through his career. He changed to 4-4-1-1 and 4-3-3. Mourinho also used 4-2-3-1 for Inter. Pretty sure he also used the diamond at times for Madrid.
Mourinho played 3-4-2-1 or 5-2-2-1. Inside forwards behind the striker, not with two strikers.
When I said 4-3-3 formation
s I was including 4-2-3-1. He does use either that or a 4-3-3 with a defensive midfielder in almost every mach, most often the latter and it's no doubt his preferred formation. That's the formation he has in his mind when building a team (unless he has a CAM with a very high defensive workrate).
It also makes sense on why we are looking to get Perisic as he is the type of winger who could do a job as wingback and give us a better attacking output on that side than Shaw or Darmian.
What makes you think Perisic can play as a wing back? He's an attacking winger who can go either way and has a good shot in him as well as crossing ability. He's not a defender. He has never played a single game as a defender in his entire career that I'm aware of and I don't understand why some seem to think that we're buying Perisic to mould him into a wingback.
Mkhitaryan and Mata could play as the third CMs against weaker opposition. And nobody really cares about Lingard.You do realise it's a squad game right?
Are you serious? We're just going to shove Miki and Mata into CM against weaker sides and leave them out of the squad for every other game? It's a crazy idea. They're important players and there's nothing to suggest that Mourinho is going to make such a drastic change to the team that those players are forced to rot in the reserves.
What is delusional thinking we going to magically find a winger who is going to get us 20 goals. The only one who is capable of doing that is Bale and that doesn't look likely he is coming.
We are going to score enough goals if we:
-Improve on set-pieces
-Buy Morata
-Buy Perisic who can score 10-15 league goals a season and assist just as many
-Let Rashford and Martial develop, they'll score more consistently for us no doubt.
-Hope that Mkhitaryan is more adapted to the league next season and scores as much in the PL as he did in EL this season
Why would we need to buy two centre backs? We already buying one. We have Blind, Bailly, Tuabzbe, Jones and Smalling. Whilst Rojo is injured. So not sure how you work that one out.
Tuanzebe isn't PL level yet, let alone United level. You can't rely on Smalling and Jones and they aren't good enough either. Rojo is out until 2018 and is also injury prone. Blind isn't good enough at CB. If we're going to play permanently with three CBs then it's no doubt that we would have to buy at least two this summer.
