That’s nonsense to me, you call Jose a short term manager, at Chelsea and Madrid that’s what what they want. At United he has used youth. He wanted Willian because he knows he can do what he wants him to and who else is there. I read the only CB web is for was Varane, at 25 a young CB with huge experience. We bid 100m but Madrid not interested. Just more Jose bashing from people who don’t like him and want him to fail
It wasn't a dig at Mourinho it was criticism of everyone. Mourinho manages things short term because he has been at clubs who demand instant success he came into Chelsea, Madrid, Inter to try to deliver instant success and he did. He took over clubs who were 2nd but wanted to be 1st not just domestically but also in Europe and again he helped them do that.
At Utd he took over a club that was 5th but want to be 1st you don't go from 5th to 1st in 1 season and sustain that. The 5 seasons before he joined 2nd, 1st, 7th, 4th, 5th the squad from the first 2 years was basically all gone and a new squad had been assembled by 2 managers with almost no scouting network and a Chief Exec who had no experience of doing that role we'd took huge gambles over 3 summers that had pretty much all backfired. I mean who signed in the first 3 summers post Fergie can we say has been a successful signing? Herrera is the only one off the top of my head who I think has come close to delivering what you'd expect of a Utd player on a consistent basis but even then I think I'm being generous. Maybe Mata but again he was a £40m signing for a position that was occupied by the club captain so again totally pointless.
My issue is at the core with the board why are they picking a guy like Mourinho and expecting him to manage the club like say Pochetinno would. If you want Mourinho you have to accept that you back him financially in decisions which might lead to a poor return but his method on paper always delivers success but it comes at a price. If you don't want to do that don't hire him because it won't work. You've basically sent Mourinho a guy who's a champion formula driver into a rally car and expected him to win the rally title. It doesn't work like that and it's why he should have only ever been appointed if the club were prepared to back him massively in the market giving him that new contract as well suggests they were.
I know why he wanted some senior players he'd lost Zlatan, Rooney & Carrick in the last 12 months but the club aren't prepared to pay £75m plus £25m in wages plus agent fees for a guy who in 3 years time is worth nothing the numbers have to stand up. Matic I think is his only wise head in the first team a guy who's won titles he's got Young & Valencia who are good pro's but realistically shouldn't be starting.
Why aren't Mourinho & Woodward sitting down and agreeing a plan or strategy together then leaving the right people to go and execute it. It's obvious that they never agreed the list of targets prior to the summer.
As I said we need Mourinho to just let this lie now and deal with the politics behind the scenes I'm sure Fergie/Gill had bust ups along the way but it was very rarely aired in a public forum but that's not really in Mourinho's nature you know that at the first sign of trouble this topic will come up again.
He 100% needs to back his players now put the summer behind everyone and build a team atmosphere because the only chance we've got of winning anything this season is if everyone is pulling together from day to the final day because it's going to take 90 points minmum to take that title off City. To do that you can't afford a slow start you need a get out ahead and force the opponent to submit.