Jose Mourinho

[buckley]

I believe these anti Jose people would sooner we lose rather than win just to justify their opinion that he is not up to it and its quite sad really or rather those that think like that are sad.

 

[DogsOfWar]

Mate it's just the fans who were completely opposed to him being our manager in the first place take every match that isn't a win as an opportunity to stick the knife in, regardless of any mitigating factors (ie, all our best players being injured at the same time)
Notice that many of them haven't posted in here today?

funny that...

But to not even give him a chance to see what he can do with our club...it's just fucking odd.

Strange thing is I'm not a huge fan of him as a person or even his pragmatic style of play.

But employing someone with his CV at spurs is one hell of a statement of intent, a proven winner, who's worst achievements at United would be seen as a massive success here.

Why wouldn't you give him a chance?

 

[mr ashley]

Strange thing is I'm not a huge fan of him as a person or even his pragmatic style of play.

But employing someone with his CV at spurs is one hell of a statement of intent, a proven winner, who's worst achievements at United would be seen as a massive success here.

Why wouldn't you give him a chance?

You’ve got to hope that he will deliver. His record is second to none. Bit worried that since we’ve restarted, he’s looked thoroughly pissed off throughout both games.
As much as I’m a fan of his appointment, I’m still waiting for the moment the wheels come off

 

[Tottenhamboys]

Have it on very good authority that the club approached Brendon Rodgers and briefly spoke with Naglesman (RB Leipzig manager) before Jose. Neither were interested at the time. Jose and Ancelloti were then considered. Ancelloti interviewed terribly and ‘came across as though he was doing us a favour’ and Jose quickly became first choice. Not saying out of the 4 that Jose was last choice, but him and Ancelloti were only approached after Rodgers and Naglesman said no. Poch was in exit talks (compensation etc) for over three weeks before his sacking was announced by the club. We played a game in that period.

 

[spursfan77]

Have it on very good authority that the club approached Brendon Rodgers and briefly spoke with Naglesman (RB Leipzig manager) before Jose. Neither were interested at the time. Jose and Ancelloti were then considered. Ancelloti interviewed terribly and ‘came across as though he was doing us a favour’ and Jose quickly became first choice. Not saying out of the 4 that Jose was last choice, but him and Ancelloti were only approached after Rodgers and Naglesman said no. Poch was in exit talks (compensation etc) for over three weeks before his sacking was announced by the club. We played a game in that period.

Im convinced he’ll be our next manager. Have been since Poch was sacked. I think the only reason we didn’t get him was because it was mid season and he’d only just joined.

Rangnick has now left Leipzig, who’s to say that won’t hasten his departure?

Plus they really seem to have a problem with us looking at their social media. A very strange Leicester stalker like inferiority complex with us.

 

[DiVaio]

West Ham are among the very worst teams in the division.

I'm not ordering the bus parade yet.

For real, it looks like now that:
good performance/result against good team is bad because we had less possesion or shots or etc
good performance/result against bad team is bad because the opposition is bad
and bad performances/results are very bad too

 

[Bobby TwoShots]

Have it on very good authority that the club approached Brendon Rodgers and briefly spoke with Naglesman (RB Leipzig manager) before Jose. Neither were interested at the time. Jose and Ancelloti were then considered. Ancelloti interviewed terribly and ‘came across as though he was doing us a favour’ and Jose quickly became first choice. Not saying out of the 4 that Jose was last choice, but him and Ancelloti were only approached after Rodgers and Naglesman said no. Poch was in exit talks (compensation etc) for over three weeks before his sacking was announced by the club. We played a game in that period.

Interesting, always assumed we'd gone straight for Jose. Sounds legit info, though -- only Levy could manage to drag "exit talks" out for 3 weeks

 

[Cochise]

So just as a little conversation starter, anyone seen how UTD have walked through Sheffield UTD at times so far?

High defensive line almost punished multiple times. Smart 1-2's around the Sheffield defenders releasing Manchester UTD forwards. A couple of counter attacks that should have definitely resulted in a goal and we are still only 30 minutes or so into the game.

We should've really retained possession better when we played them, but we can see that Jose's plan was a good one.

 

[Snarfalicious]

My dream when Mourinho was signed was he’d bring some solidity back, get the squad in a better place overall, and then turn it over to a young manager for a longer vision, like Nagelsman. Not sure how long Nagelsman will stay at Leipzig (or who else will come calling), and if our timelines will match up, but that’d be the ideal scenario.

 

[Metalhead]

You’ve got to hope that he will deliver. His record is second to none. Bit worried that since we’ve restarted, he’s looked thoroughly pissed off throughout both games.
As much as I’m a fan of his appointment, I’m still waiting for the moment the wheels come off

He’s looked very positive in the training photos and generally pretty measured in his post match comments. I thought that his comments over Ndombele not playing were spot on. If he looks pissed off in games then I’d imagine that it’s because the players aren’t performing to the level that he wants, which is fine as far as i am concerned.

 

[DogsOfWar]

You’ve got to hope that he will deliver. His record is second to none. Bit worried that since we’ve restarted, he’s looked thoroughly pissed off throughout both games.
As much as I’m a fan of his appointment, I’m still waiting for the moment the wheels come off

I think the wheels only come off when a manager loses the plot, usually when he's under pressure.
Mourinho is under very little pressure with us as coming 4th and winning a cup would be seen as success, which is the bare minimum where he's concerned.

As a result, I'm not too worried for a couple of seasons at least.

 

[Sid Tottenham]

Interesting, always assumed we'd gone straight for Jose. Sounds legit info, though -- only Levy could manage to drag "exit talks" out for 3 weeks

Wait Rodgers wasn’t interested really? Hard to believe
But can’t stand the bloke anyway anyone who’s got a six foot oil painting of themselves is an absolute prick.
I judge managers by if I could happily have a beer with in the pub couldn’t drink with Rodgers
# Disclaimer If anyone here has a six Foot oil painting of themselves or thinking about getting one it’s just my opinion mate shouldn’t matter, go for it






Prick

 

[danielneeds]

My dream when Mourinho was signed was he’d bring some solidity back, get the squad in a better place overall, and then turn it over to a young manager for a longer vision, like Nagelsman. Not sure how long Nagelsman will stay at Leipzig (or who else will come calling), and if our timelines will match up, but that’d be the ideal scenario.

The problem is if you let Jose build the sort if team he wants, older, experienced, physical, defensive, then it all goes balls up as it inevitably will, then you’ll have to start from scratch rebuilding the team if you go for a young front-foot manager like Nagelsman again.

 

[Snarfalicious]

The problem is if you let Jose build the sort if team he wants, older, experienced, physical, defensive, then it all goes balls up as it inevitably will, then you’ll have to start from scratch rebuilding the team if you go for a young front-foot manager like Nagelsman again.

Well it doesn’t sound like he’s pulling all the transfer strings as we heard re: Bergwijn. Perhaps we just hope that continues and we suck at it a little less over the next couple years because Mourinho will flip his lid (and publicly) if we don’t address some obvious areas of need?

 

[Gb160]

The problem is if you let Jose build the sort if team he wants, older, experienced, physical, defensive, then it all goes balls up as it inevitably will, then you’ll have to start from scratch rebuilding the team if you go for a young front-foot manager like Nagelsman again.

We’ll cross that make believe bridge when we come to it.

 

[rossdapep]

You’ve got to hope that he will deliver. His record is second to none. Bit worried that since we’ve restarted, he’s looked thoroughly pissed off throughout both games.
As much as I’m a fan of his appointment, I’m still waiting for the moment the wheels come off

He's not pissed off? It's his concentration face

 

[dtxspurs]

Looking back at it I think people use the "jump from 14th" a lot when talking about how he's done well.

When you actually look at the table we were 3 points behind 5th place and now we're 4 points behind 5th place.

Injuries obviously took their toll but we should have played better than we did.

 

[rossdapep]

Bergwijn has obviously done really well but contrast Jose's attitude towards that compared to when United signed a player he didn't want.

When they signed a player there he clearly yearned for another player and would seem very unsatisfied, quite clearly, from the beginning.

I think not been promised a shit ton of cash is helping as he seems to understand the limitations. If Levy had promised him 100m, then the club spent it only for it to be a waste, I'm sure we'd be in trouble.

 

[mr ashley]

I think the wheels only come off when a manager loses the plot, usually when he's under pressure.
Mourinho is under very little pressure with us as coming 4th and winning a cup would be seen as success, which is the bare minimum where he's concerned.

As a result, I'm not too worried for a couple of seasons at least.

Don’t get me wrong, I thought the appointment of Jose was a big statement of intent, and really want all the media naysayers to be proved wrong. I’m happy, but I feel like the media will keep probing and probing away to unsettle Jose.

 

[danielneeds]

Bergwijn has obviously done really well but contrast Jose's attitude towards that compared to when United signed a player he didn't want.

When they signed a player there he clearly yearned for another player and would seem very unsatisfied, quite clearly, from the beginning.

I think not been promised a shit ton of cash is helping as he seems to understand the limitations. If Levy had promised him 100m, then the club spent it only for it to be a waste, I'm sure we'd be in trouble.

To be fair, Jose had waited all his life to get the United job. He idolised Fergie. When you get to the pinnacle in British football, the richest club in the land, and the promises aren’t being kept obviously he got pissed.

He’s obviously a lot more realistic about our resources here.