I have a feeling a lot of fans would want us to lose tonight if it meant Mourinho would get the sack sooner. Because they hate him more than they love United. This is where some are now.
They want him gone for the good of the club, not because they hate him. That’s where we are.
I think we should forget about the nr of points needed to reach top 4. Let’s focus on progress and plan instead. That should be the emphasis on the assessment from the board anyway.
Mourinho has been here for 2,5 years. What has our progress been during that time? How many of our players are better now than they were then and how much better are they? The players who are playing good now are from SAF:s era, mainly Young and De Gea.
How much more exciting is it to watch United play now compared to then? It’s worse IMO.
To be hanging around mid table after 3 transfer windows is no way near acceptable and there is absolutely no plan for how to turn it around. It surely cannot be done with new players. NO PLAYER bought after van Persie has been a success. He’s had three main transfer windows and two January’s. Regardless of what happened this summer, there’s been so much money invested in the team during his reign he cannot complain about more players.
The guy has failed. He has made a career in ways I could only dream about but he has failed at United. The odds that he’s going to turn this around into a winning machine that also plays exciting football is incredibly high.