The Mourinho Thread: Should he stay or go? | Sacked

Is Mourinho’s time as United manager up?

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  • No

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  • Not yet - needs more time to see if he can turn it around

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Fergie was upset in the moment. Fergie has since spoken out that Raiola is the one to blame. The entire relationship between Fergie and Pogba came from a disagreement on what is best for the development of Pogba. Pogba thought what was best lied elsewhere, Fergie felt it was still at United and Raiola was to blame for leaving.

It's really not that big of a deal in hindsight. It's honestly the same as Pereira and Mou last season. Pereria went out on loan because he didn't believe Mou would give him minutes to develop. Only difference is that Pereira's contract was not expired.
The way that Pogba left Le Havre and United the first time show that he has no qualms about going after whatever is the best for him (and/or his agent) in any situation. That is what is happening here too. And in a weird way I don't blame him for wanting to move - a footballer's career is short and if he wants to move to win more trophies (or even to earn more money) then that is fine. The way that he is going about things is an absolute disgrace though, and there would be total uproar about it if it wasn't for the fact that so many people are so invested in laying all the blame on Mourinho.
 
Ideally both Mourinho and Pogba should go, along with Woodward and half the squad. But as always in football, it's the manager.

I hate to see player power, especially United players who have proven year after year how mediocre they are but there we are. We are not a football club.
 
It's got to the point now where it annoys me that when I check online he hasn't been sacked yet .

I'd takes Moyes back over Jose at this point

Somewhat agree with your first point.
Strongly disagree with your second.
 
Another thing... if 'peak' Mourinho was in charge of this club, with the amount of backing he has had.. we would win the title last year and we would be serious CL contenders. He was a great manager (he was also much more of a coach than he is now with much more enthusiasm and attention to detail), he will go down a football legend. He's just not the same guy anymore.
Exactly. I would actually have more faith in Mou to start winning things if we saw legit counter attacks. They're hardly there though.
 
As soon as we start backing players over the manager, it's over

The two of them will be gone, in January and in the summer. Just wait it out.

It's absolute insanity if the club back Pogba over Mourinho.
The club back Pogba, sack Mourinho, player power wins, Pogba fecks off anyways and we're left with a reputation of giving in to player power.

It's a no win situation if we do that.
When I say we, I mean the club.

The season is fecked anyways. Just have to hope Chelsea win it
 
What did Zidane say, and what other examples do you have to give?

Man Utd is a global brand. The majority of the "fans" know feck all about the club because the reach in support is so deep. What matters to me are the fans that get to the stadiums and they don't sound divided at all.

Yes re. Things Jose has done wrong:

-I think Mourinho should not have bought Pogba (I made a thread when he signed before he kicked a ball)
- he shouldn't have approached sevilla so cautiously like he did.
- he shouldn't be changing his defensive partnerships so often.
- he shouldn't be as depressing by way of his demeanor in interviews. What he says may be correct for the most part but not everything. I don't think he's said enough bad things to turn vital fans against him and get sacked though.



My problem with Pogba is his consistency, application and attitude. He doesn't have the consistency to warrant the things he says or does. I don't enjoy seeing him on social media all the time acting like a twat when he plays like piss or uploading shit during a game we end up losing in.

I don't enjoy him coming out after a Leicester win on opening day and causing instability by saying he's not happy and being cryptic about asking the manager why. Or after Brighton when he said his attidude isn't there or after Wolves for the obvious.

He doesn't follow instructions, he doesn't apply his talent, he's not consistent and he is more disruptive than beneficial. The Barcelona stuff is just shit on the side.

Haha look at the things you just listed for pogba yet you just spent a whole page downplaying every piece of nonsense Jose has spouted since he got here.

It's hard to believe you aren't Jose himself.
 
So I'm guessing you're one of those who wanted Sir Alex gone in 04?

Sir Alex Ferguson who had won a treble in 99 and three league titles since then (prior to a difficult period when he finished 3rd, 3rd and 2nd)?

Cracking comparison I must say.

But for the record, no.
 
Yes re. Things Jose has done wrong:

-I think Mourinho should not have bought Pogba (I made a thread when he signed before he kicked a ball.

Yes, we should not buy a potential future best midfielder in the world because Jose can't get along with him. Instead we will buy "warriors" in the mold of Willian I suppose.
 
What context can justify a player going to the press to criticise his manager on multiple occasions?! You can't have players doing that, no matter what has gone on in the past.

When the manager has been doing for 2 years and actively calls out said player many times and leaked private conversations in the media to embarrass said player. It's not hard to work out.
 
Yes, we should not buy a potential future best midfielder in the world because Jose can't get along with him. Instead we will buy "warriors" in the mold of Willian I suppose.
As I said before, "spent his time building a siege mentality instead of building a trebuchet".
 
Are you fecking serious? You're pointing to that and call it disrespect to the club? Do you know why he said what he said? The suggestion from the media was that he did something absolutely unheard of at Sevilla and no manager would have done it.

He reminded people that United can suffer freak performances and freak results. SAF himself did against Porto.

But no let's sack him because he pointed out a bad memory. He literally said he's a big manager and can knock big teams out so don't jump on his back for one bad fixture.

Mourinho added: “Do you think they didn’t have any players who could play direct in my team?

Full transcript: Mourinho's 12-minute monologue
“I cannot name them. If I name them their agents will jump with happiness and they will say: ‘Tag, tag, price’, this and that. In Sevilla, there are many players who would play in my team.”

“It is something like the last time Manchester United won the Champions League, which didn’t happen a lot of times, was in 2008. Since 2011: 2012, out in the group phase, the group was almost the same group we had this season – Benfica, Basel and [Otelul] Galati from Romania. Out in the group phase.


“In 2013, out at Old Trafford in the last 16, I was on the other bench. In 2014, out in the quarter-final. In 2015, no European football. In 2016, comes back to European football, out in the group phase, goes to Europa League and on the second knockout out of the Europa League. In 2017, play Europa League, win Europa League with me and goes back to Champions League. In 2018, win the group phase with 15 points out of a possible 18 and loses at home in the last 16

“So, in seven years with four different managers, once not qualify for Europe, twice out in the group phase and the best was the quarter-final. This is football heritage.

“If you want to go to the Premier League, the last victory was 2012-13 and in the four consecutive seasons United finish fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. So in the last four years, the best was fourth. This is football heritage. It means that when you start the process you are here, you are there or you are there. It is heritage.

Seems to me he wanted to remind everyone that United are not as big as we think anymore "heritage", not freak results but "heritage"

Seems he is also suggesting that Sevilla has better players than United.

I wonder why Jose didn't sign any Sevilla players in the summer.

This was a disrespect.
 
I'm actually not trying to be a dick here but how do you think that's going to happen if it hasn't already happened in the last two previous seasons? Other top managers don't seem to have this issue. Even Van Gaal had a clear objective (painful as it was to watch).
Agreed, but I don't recall this being a problem historically for Jose's teams. I can't say I saw his Porto or Inter teams play but neither Chelsea or Madrid were ever this bad. I get we don't have the talent of Madrid but even during his second Chelsea term his teams weren't like this.
 
As soon as we start backing players over the manager, it's over

The two of them will be gone, in January and in the summer. Just wait it out.

It's absolute insanity if the club back Pogba over Mourinho.
The club back Pogba, sack Mourinho, player power wins, Pogba fecks off anyways and we're left with a reputation of giving in to player power.

It's a no win situation if we do that.
When I say we, I mean the club.

The season is fecked anyways. Just have to hope Chelsea win it

Yeah like what happened at Chelsea and Madrid....... oh wait they were fine when they picked the players over Jose. Weird
 
The hysterical reaction and wanting him sacked does not extend beyond that. Criticisms obviously but whatever way you want to slice it, the hysterics are based on predicting the future based off very little.

I'm not going to name positives because i can't predict the future. That's the difference people are taking the negatives you mentioned and forecasting a poor season based off the first lot of games but they did the same last season and we finished 2nd.

Like i said this situation in December and I'd probably say sack him. I really don't care that much if people are emotional but don't kid yourselves that you're being logical at the same time.

You freely admit that Jose has performed poorly enough in his role as manager to warrant the sack, but doing so in September would be wrong. I disagree.

The longer Jose Mourinho remains in charge of our club, the further the chasm between United and City (some might include Liverpool) opens up. The longer he remains coaching and guiding our players, the longer that toxic atmosphere currently surrounding the dressing room will remain.

It seems no one can list a solitary positive in Jose Mourinho remaining manager of our club. That's pretty damning in itself if you ask me.
 
At this point what is the point of having 2 threads if the same discussions with the same people are in both ? This isn't even a positivf thread anymore I mean.
 
When the manager has been doing for 2 years and actively calls out said player many times and leaked private conversations in the media to embarrass said player. It's not hard to work out.
Eh? 2 years? Get your facts straight - it's embarrassing. As recently as April Mourinho was defending Pogba in the press when Scholes was criticising him. Scholesy described him as 'disrespecting the club' even back then in April - we know that Scholes is definitely no Mourinho lover. The only criticism I can remember from Mourinho in the press was what he said during the summer whilst being a pundit during the World Cup. And most of that was pretty mild in the scheme of things - in fact, I reckon most of us would have agreed with what he was saying having watched Pogab week-in week-out for the last couple of seasons.
 
Another thing... if 'peak' Mourinho was in charge of this club, with the amount of backing he has had.. we would win the title last year and we would be serious CL contenders. He was a great manager (he was also much more of a coach than he is now with much more enthusiasm and attention to detail), he will go down a football legend. He's just not the same guy anymore.

Exactly. I would actually have more faith in Mou to start winning things if we saw legit counter attacks. They're hardly there though.

I agree with this. I would have much preferred it if Jose had stuck to his guns and continued to play the way he felt was best. Sit deep, give nothing away, especially since our defence is poor and try to use a direct counter-attacking style to win games. The constant theme of parking the bus and boring football seems to have really gotten to him, we definitely trying to press more and push forward but we're so open, fullbacks constantly being caught out of position, the distance between the 2 centre halves sometimes is so ridiculous but they're contantly having to go around putting out fires and we don't have those typical ball retaining midfielders a la Carrick and Scholes who can retain possession and make life easier for the backline.
 
At this point what is the point of having 2 threads if the same discussions with the same people are in both ? This isn't even a positivf thread anymore I mean.
It's difficult to have a positive thread on a subject in which there's no positivity to be found.
 
Sir Alex Ferguson who had won a treble in 99 and three league titles since then (prior to a difficult period when he finished 3rd, 3rd and 2nd)?

Cracking comparison I must say.

But for the record, no.
Hasn't Jose won a treble, hasn't Jose won league titles?
I'm not even a huge fan of the man but the criticism of him doesn't seem to be based on facts and reality. If Sir alex's previous record was enough to warrant him keeping the job in tough times, why does the same not apply to Mourinho?
 
Eh? 2 years? Get your facts straight - it's embarrassing. As recently as April Mourinho was defending Pogba in the press when Scholes was criticising him. Scholesy described him as 'disrespecting the club' even back then in April - we know that Scholes is definitely no Mourinho lover. The only criticism I can remember from Mourinho in the press was what he said during the summer whilst being a pundit during the World Cup. And most of that was pretty mild in the scheme of things - in fact, I reckon most of us would have agreed with what he was saying having watched Pogab week-in week-out for the last couple of seasons.

Actually read my post he has been calling out "players" for 2 years. You don't think players talk between themselves or discuss what mourinho is doing? Also it started in February after the Newcastle match when pogba was ill
 
Hasn't Jose won a treble, hasn't Jose won league titles?
I'm not even a huge fan of the man but the criticism of him doesn't seem to be based on facts and reality. If Sir alex's previous record was enough to warrant him keeping the job in tough times, why does the same not apply to Mourinho?
He won them for other clubs, a long time ago. All that matters is what he's done for United, and so far that's very little.
 
Actually read my post he has been calling out "players" for 2 years. You don't think players talk between themselves or discuss what mourinho is doing? Also it started in February after the Newcastle match when pogba was ill
Do you genuinely believe that Pogba's current situation is based purely out of desire to stick up for those players that have been criticised by their manager?!
 
Actually read my post he has been calling out "players" for 2 years. You don't think players talk between themselves or discuss what mourinho is doing? Also it started in February after the Newcastle match when pogba was ill

And so Pogba decided to become the national super hero for the other players and replay on Mourinho in their place after telling Ed in summer that he wants out from the club and had agreed terms with Barca ?!
 
Firstly I will state I am an Arsenal fan for my sins.

But I think that everyone knows how and what Mourinhio does, and I never thought he was suited to Man Utd or at least the Man Utd I have seen in the last 20 years, for the similar reasons he did not suit Real Madrid even if he was partly successful there.

He wants to create a them vs us underdog backs to the wall mentality, he always needs an enemy and respects nothing or nobody, I don't feel that he loves football, or sees any beauty in the game, he is pure pragmatic, for these reasons I think he can't succeed ant Man Utd, as your history is to play attacking football. I don't think he cares about how entertaining the play is he only cares about trophies and his own ego, and if looks like the trophies are not coming then he starts attacking everything around him, the suits at the club, the players, the media, the owner, the medical staff, the fans, the history of the club until he gets sacked. I think he is at the stage he wants to get sacked.

He does better at a small club or one that has no style/history like chelsea or are really desperate for a trophy they "sell out" to clown antics for a trophy. It used to at least have the payout of a title, but I think now he has been left behind, the english clubs have so many game changers even at the smaller clubs, it is hard to win 1-0, 2-0 and he does not know how to change. I think your club should get shot of him and get somebody in that is more aligned with the clubs stature/history. somebody forward thinking with an attacking style.

I think he burns out attacking players, telling them they don't track back enough, then tell them they don't create enough.

I don't think any of the managerial choices after Fergie have been a correct match, but then how many great attacking coaches are there to get at the moment.
 
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Yeah like what happened at Chelsea and Madrid....... oh wait they were fine when they picked the players over Jose. Weird

This isn't about Jose Mourinho, it's about the manager of Manchester United.

I don't particularly want us to become clubs like them. I agree with Alex Ferguson's viewpoint on it.

I just posted what I think. I'm not asking for a debate or a response. Nor did I want one tbh.

Carry on...
 
Man Utd is a global brand. The majority of the "fans" know feck all about the club because the reach in support is so deep. What matters to me are the fans that get to the stadiums and they don't sound divided at all.

This statement is just plain ridiculous. The fact that Man. United is a global brand is what generates revenue through TV ratings and merchandise. Where do you think our precious club would be right now without all the support it has around the globe?
Just the fact I can't book a flight to England every week it doesn't make me less of a fan than you or anyone, or that I'm less aware about the club issues or that I should be less entitled to an opinion.
A dumb person in a stadium is still dumb, like the point you tried to make.
 
Can't the same be applied to Pogba and his words then? Woodward and any employee of the club? Ironically can't the same be applied to pundits then? Why is Mourinho taking their criticism to have any weight to it?

Why take verbal communication seriously then? Why not stop using words altogether if they don't carry any real weight to them?

So just to be clear you're only holding his talking back to the pundits against him?

Of course it isn't the same. The moment a player speaks out against the manager you've got problems. He's a subordinate of the manager and is meant to buy into his way of playing. The moment he speaks out against it you have a serious problem - just look at what all of the ex players have said about it in their take (in dressing room matters their opinion would be valuable given the experience).

Mourinho has protected Pogba more than he's slated him. Too much protection in fact. I find it bizzare you find a manager deflecting questions in the press to protect his players (ie after Sevilla) comparable to a player speaking out against his boss in public interviews. I think our discussion has ran it's course, and I'd rather not visit this thread anymore.
 
This statement is just plain ridiculous. The fact that Man. United is a global brand is what generates revenue through TV ratings and merchandise. Where do you think our precious club would be right now without all the support it has around the globe?
Just the fact I can't book a flight to England every week it doesn't make me less of a fan than you or anyone, or that I'm less aware about the club issues or that I should be less entitled to an opinion.
A dumb person in a stadium is still dumb, like the point you tried to make.

I said the majority of fans will know feck all. There are lots of great supporters of the club who can't travel too.
 
Match going fans are very divided. If there was a viable and available alternative the “out” faction would be more vocal. They are the ones suffering the dirge we’ve been serving up for the past five years the most.
 
Match going fans are very divided. If there was a viable and available alternative the “out” faction would be more vocal. They are the ones suffering the dirge we’ve been serving up for the past five years the most.

If that's the case we wouldn't hear Jose's name being sung so loudly around the stadium. Anyway il leave this as my last post in the thread.
 
If that's the case we wouldn't hear Jose's name being sung so loudly around the stadium. Anyway il leave this as my last post in the thread.
LVG thought the same. I think we just have supportive matchday fans. They'd chant Osama bin laden if he was the manager
 
Do you genuinely believe that Pogba's current situation is based purely out of desire to stick up for those players that have been criticised by their manager?!

No I believe there is a growing frustration from the players towards Jose for a variety of reasons and slot of them probably share the same feelings. The reason why pogba has spoken up is because he likely is the biggest personality in the dressing room and is someone who is more brave to speak his mind and defend himself because he gets the most criticism.
 
LVG thought the same. I think we just have supportive matchday fans. They'd chant Osama bin laden if he was the manager

I don't think his name resonated quite as much in the embers of the final season? In FA cup games sure.
 
And so Pogba decided to become the national super hero for the other players and replay on Mourinho in their place after telling Ed in summer that he wants out from the club and had agreed terms with Barca ?!

He has never said that and all the Barca stuff was debunked already don't even know why your bringing it up. Pogba has openly many times talked about his commitment to the team and what is clear is that the other players look to pogba. He is the best friend of everyone.
 
I don't think his name resonated quite as much in the embers of the final season? In FA cup games sure.
Even when things were really really bad they were still singing his name every week and cheering the team hard. It's at OT where the crowd atmosphere was notably deflated
 
He has never said that and all the Barca stuff was debunked already don't even know why your bringing it up. Pogba has openly many times talked about his commitment to the team and what is clear is that the other players look to pogba. He is the best friend of everyone.

He told Ed he wanted to leave before the Leicester game. Not just the Mail reporting it now even the Telegraph and Ducker. If you don't want to believe it because it's not good news for you then it's up to you, even though it makes perfect sense considering Barca made an official offer for him.
 
He told Ed he wanted to leave before the Leicester game. Not just the Mail reporting it now even the Telegraph and Ducker. If you don't want to believe it because it's not good news for you then it's up to you, even though it makes perfect sense considering Barca made an official offer for him.

Mate it hasn't been confirmed anywhere but even if he has it doesn't even make a different it just adds to the story of him being frustrated under mourinho for several reasons which honestly are understandable and it's no coincidence that it happens with big players at every club Jose is at.
 
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