Yeah none of those are reasons that are cause for concern for him. They may be reasons why you want him to leave and that's not the same thing. Also he certainly didn't spend the entire summer slating his players - he literally made one comment about Pogba which wasn't even that bad and his comment about MArtial not returning to pre-season was completely warranted. And how exactly has he made the club look poor? I mean sure you can choose to believe that if you buy in to the exaggerations and falsehoods spun by the media. The only people who have made the club look poor have been Raiola and Woodward who failed miserably with transfers.
So what's the "most glaring problem in the side"? Our right wing? Again that's not on Mourinho, That's on Woodward. Experienced CB? Again Woodward. So what exactly would the glaring problem be if Mourinho had got his signings??
Really?? He's had two full seasons and he's won the EFL, got us back in the CL and got us to second and in the FA Cup Final. If you can't be optimistic on the back of that then I feel like it's you choosing to be negative based on your clear agenda against him. And as for the defeat - it's only two games... really not basis to make rash judgments. In our treble year we drew the first two games and had less points than we have now.
If you don't think he's been a good manager then that's clearly your opinion as you've said and that's clearly based on a personal agenda you have against him. The facts show otherwise.
Well actually you said "he persists" which implies that he's currently continuing that behavior which he obviously isn't and as for him being arrogant, again that;s your opinion but to me the fact that he is making a concerted effort to change is anything but arrogant.
And it's lubricious to claim that he tried to force Pogba and Martial out. You don't give the captain's armband to someone who you're trying to force out. And again, it's Martial who has been trying to force a move. What you're saying is a blatant lie. tt's one thing to have an opinion about him which you're entitled to but it's another thing to go out of your way to misrepresent facts to justify your personal agenda against him.
He's thrown his toys out the pram in an attempt to get what he wanted from Woodward and it didn't work. Now he's left with a team that he's already undermined by saying it's not good enough. If he doesn't think he can perform with the players he's got (and near £400m he's spent since he joined) then he absolutely should be worried about his job.
His comments on Pogba were out of order, his comments on the young players in pre-season were out of order, his opinion that he wouldn't pay to watch the players he put on the pitch in pre-season were out of order, and his comments on Martial were out of order (I suppose we'll agree to disagree on this one - I think Martial staying with his partner while she recovered from birth complications is more than understandable). He had absolutely no business making any of those statements
to the press. That sort of negativity and airing of dirty laundry is beneath United and its manager.
The most glaring problem is our attack, obviously. In his first season, when we finished 6th, United scored fewer goals than fecking Bournemouth. The lowest goal haul from a top 4 side that season was 24 more than we scored. Last season, we finished second but scored 38 fewer goals than City and had the fewest goals of all the top 4 sides. I don't believe for a minute that we're one right sided player away from fixing our attack. He just hasn't got any idea how to break opposing teams down and thinks his age old tactic of waiting on a player to produce a moment of magic will continue to work. To his credit, we've allowed the second fewest number of goals each of the last two seasons - 29 & 28 respectively - which makes it all the more bizarre to me that he spent so long chasing yet another centerback. If you can get through a season conceding fewer than 30 goals, you should be in contention for the title. A new centerback is not going to sort out our attack.
Winning the Europa League was tidy enough, but our league performance was so shockingly poor that we'd thrown all our effort into getting into the CL through the back door. He also failed to build on that win and crashed out of the Champions League early on. Second place was nice enough, but we were essentially out of the title race by the start of December and finished 19 points off the top, so it's all relative. We're no closer to being back on top than we were under Van Gaal.
Persistant, persists, whatever. It doesn't matter which tense - I'm talking about his tenure at United as a whole. He's claimed just in the past week or two that he'll stop slating players (which he's yet to prove), but he continues with his unprofessional behavior. The Spurs presser for example - shows up a half hour before it's due to start, takes questions for 4 minutes, then leaves. Petulant.
Re: Pogba / Martial, it's easy enough to read between the lines. My language may have been a bit strong, but take a look at Martial's performance from the beginning of last season until late January. He was second to Lukaku in offensive productivity and was summarily dropped the moment Sanchez was signed and couldn't get back into the team no matter how poor Sanchez was. That's as clear a message as you can send to a young player (who, despite the countless claims of ineptitude by Top Reds™, had a hand in 62 goals in his first 3 seasons
). He was one of the few things working offensively to begin the season last year and Mourinho dropped him for a player who produced next to nothing. Throw in multiple pursuits of Perisic, his preference for fecking Fellaini when we need a goal, etc. His demeanor on the pitch against Brighton was unforgivable, but it's easy for me to see where it's coming from. Every player wants to feel wanted and he obviously doesn't. Pogba is obviously a prima donna who cares very seriously about his image. I know this, you know this, Mourinho knew this when he signed him. With that in mind, to come out in the press and shit on him after he'd just won the fecking World Cup is about as lacking in class as any direct comment made by a United manager I can remember. Whether he tried to make amends by giving him the armband or not; the relationship was already likely strained at best, ruined at worst. After that comment is absolutely when the Barca rumors hotted up, so I'm happy to draw my own conclusions.
United is more of a circus than it's been at any point since Sir Alex left and Mourinho is central to all of it. In the past, he got the benefit of the doubt because he was the best. He's just not good enough anymore. He's over two seasons in and I don't think anyone here has a clue what his long term vision for United is. That should be worrying to everyone.
