You’ve taken a really good, well-thought out and articulate post and replied with a load of lazy rubbish
This “**** of the manager” and “**** of Sir Alex” has to stop. SAF made loads of mistakes and spent loads of money on crap players. In his 4th season in charge, he finished 13th. He was lucky that he inherited the Class of 92 lads and he was lucky that Utd could outspend all of our competitors for a big chunk of his tenure.
That all being said, he was still the greatest club manager in football history. What’s my point? You have to look beyond the bare results. I guarantee you would have been part of the “Ferguson Out” brigade in ‘88 and had our Board at the time listened to those fans we would probably never have dominated English football for 20yrs
I was around back then and didnt want Fergie out, so not sure what you're getting at. And I can't really agree with much of what you say. United didnt have loads of cash back then, as is well documented of the era. Indeed he was running a profit on transfers up til the 98-99 season. He didnt inherit the class of 92 and get lucky, we'd won the title twice by the time they arrived in the first team, and they only arrived at all because he completely revamped the youth academy in the late 80s. As for his (senior) purchases, in his first 3 seasons he bought
Brian McClair
Steve Bruce
Jim Leighton
Mal Donoghy
Lee Sharpe
Ralph Miline
Mark Huges
Gary Pallister
Neil Webb
Paul Ince
Danny Wallace
Mike Phelan
By my reckoning that's 1 famous failure, 2 journeymen, 3 good players and 6 fantastic buys that would eventually take us to the title. I'd kill for that hit rate now. Fergie made plenty of mistakes but the foundational work he was doing back then was apparent even at the time, and that was what kept him in the job til he won the Cup in 90.
You say we should look beyond the results, I totally agree. I see no such rebuilding work happening at United under Jose, and that's precisely why I think he's done. On the pitch there's no signs of long term development. We have no discernable style of play, no signs of us taking on any of the modern styles of football that are proving so effective. The squad is a bit of a mishmash at the mo and he's continually struggled to motivate them. And his only solution seems to be offering more of the same. Off the pitch is nothing to do with Mourinho and he shows no interest in doing it anyway, so nothing there can be said to support his continued stay.
I mean, if you can point to
anything that suggests that Mourinho has a long term plan in place and he's inching towards it for the overall betterment of the club, however slowly, then let me know. Because right now I dont see anything of the sort.