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Someone who makes plates, cups and potters about while doing so. Not sure they'd be an upgrade if I'm honest.
Jose Mourinho
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Rusta81
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To be fair the two guys he’s signed are Gedson 19 and Steve B 23? Or something.
thekneaf
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He also signed Fred, Bailly, Lindelof, Pogba, Lukaku, Dalot all reasonably young or very young for United.
Yes Sanchez was not good, and Matic was old but also effective.
Don't let the media narrative obscure the facts. There are enough real issues to gripe about with Jose, pick one of them.
Yes Sanchez was not good, and Matic was old but also effective.
Don't let the media narrative obscure the facts. There are enough real issues to gripe about with Jose, pick one of them.
enfieldyid
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A) His Ego
B) His Inconsistent man management skills
C) Boring style of play
D) Highest spending Manager of all time.
E) Reliance on individual attacking talent
thekneaf
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And all those shiny trophies
thekneaf
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Sorry, forgot to be negative there for a second, as you were
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spursfan77
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Reminds me of when there was a section of this board asking for fucking Tony Pulis when AVB was sacked. I’d love to call those people out now but it doesn’t seem the search function goes back that far.
edit: seems I was wrong!
Tony Pulis?
Funnily enough there are many similarities between Jose and Pulis' approach - Both drill their teams to within an inch of their lives defensively. Both are pragmatic when it comes to cutting their cloth to the players they have. Maybe if Jose wore a stupid baseball cap, he'd get less respect as...
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Albertbarich
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I remember hearing that on other boards
Although to be fair many people myself included thought Harry redknapp fell into that category and look bow that turned out.
fishhhandaricecake
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He said in a recent presser he wasn't looking to bring in older more experienced players just players who have the right character and mentality.
emiley heskey
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Matic also got new two year deals for United because of his impressive performance .. Matic is far better than any other defensive midfielder we have in our squad
fishhhandaricecake
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I've noticed that Jose really does seem to try and adapt slightly for every single opponent. The formation and tactics might not differ hugely everytime as usually we play the 4-2-3-1 with 3 atb in build-up and push the RB further on and tuck the AM's inside but we often fall into a mid or low block 4-4-2 when without the ball. Today the difference was we played the 4-4-2/4-4-1-1- and held that shape when we attacked as well.
Its interesting that Jose does this, some will say its great and it comes back to the arguement that Poch never had a good plan B or reacted in games enough and some will say we should have a single effective system that we master like wolves, sheff.utd, liverpool/man.city etc.
I don't think there is a right or wrong particularly its just how you see the game, do you rather focus on your opponents strengths and try to play to minimise those whilst also capitalising on their weaknesses or do you focus more on your own strengths and let the opponent worry more about you. Different schools of thought.
JUSTINSIGNAL
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Different league mate. I don’t think you can be successful as a top team playing that way in the prem.
Shadydan
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Not sure what the league has to do with it, football is football no matter where it's played. Formations are of course important but they come secondary to application and desire, I don't see a reason why it would fail if everyone buys into it.
It's not as if Atletico haven't been successful using it against English teams.
emiley heskey
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Athletico madrid has played with this style in champions league and have become runner up two times, multiple quarter and semi final appearances lol ...
emiley heskey
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Atletico schooled liverpool the best english team at this moment by playing this style of football ... They have beaten barcelona couple of times, pep guardiola's munich, psg, even chelsea by playing this way ...
Stamford
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Over Jose lol
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Some of our fans are actually mental.
Shadydan
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Yeah the thing is people just put way too much emphasis on formations as if they are playing chess, yeah formations are key in the way you implement your gameplan but they aren't the be all and end all of how to win a match, it comes down to good old fashioned desire and the ability to be able to implement a successful gameplan over your opponents.
People are acting as if this is going to be the blueprint for Jose in every match, it isn't. We setup 4-4-2 because it helped us take advantage of Arsenal's weaknesses and played to our strength's, but we still had to fight for the win on the pitch - that is how you win football matches not solely relying on the formation.
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