Jose Mourinho | 2017/18 Assessments | Poll Added

Your stance

  • Top manager in charge of a major rebuild. Needs more time and/or money.

    Votes: 684 43.8%

  • Made improvements but we've stagnated. Sack him if we drop out of top 4

    Votes: 377 24.1%

  • He's not the right fit. Sack him and get someone else who can get more out of our squad

    Votes: 502 32.1%
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Can't fault Mou. Today was the best attacking play we've seen under Mourinho, it's the finishing that killed us.

That game could've easily been 5-1. He can't come on the pitch and stick the ball in the net for our fecking useless attackers.
 
Weird post-game interview - said he feels great. Sounds like a man who's accepted the fact that the league is definitely done.
 
He’s a clever man. He will know who to get rid off (there are plenty)

Guardiola focused on who to bring in and let go last season where as Mourinho focused on winning the Europa with what he had without looking at the dead wood as the league was a write off from September last season.
 
For feck sake, Feck off blaming Mourinho for fecking everything, It's not his fault that some of our players couldn't take their chances, Get off his back.
 
Actually this one has nothing to do with Mourinho, just a bunch of players who happened to have removed their brains before the game (Martial, Rashford, whole defence bar Young maybe) and, equally important, diabolical peno decision after you just knew we'd concede. Sometimes I look at the refs and think are they that stupid or simply want to level the chances for both teams.

Rashford has been acting all Billy big bollocks recently (noticed his antics against CSKA), somebody should tell him he's not there yet. His performance is what meant we couldn't effectively kill the game.
 
I said in the other thread that I don’t know if I should be angry or not with him

But smalling was not able to play. Just take him out and go makeshift. He was a hindrance, not just at the goal but for the last 7 or 8mins of the game

He shouldn’t have been on the pitch, him being there gave them the advantage.

So yes maybe it is jose’s Fault
 
leontas said:
Weird post-game interview - said he feels great. Sounds like a man who's accepted the fact that the league is definitely done.
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Well, so has Conte. Birds of a feather, they both appear furious as well as frustrated. Can't blame them, they are both winners and are being let down by the team/transfer activity.
 
I’m surprised Mou did not give explicit orders out about how to do deal with the Smalling injury, but the players let him down both going forward and at the back today. There will be a lot to analyse when the squad get together tomorrow. So many poor individual decisions and a lack of on-field leadership near the end.

Not sure the manager - or the players for that matter - can do much about the poor misses. You practice and hope your skill doesn’t fail you on the day, but today it did. There was plenty of else that was in the players control however.
 
I am one of Jose’s toughest critics but that was absolutely not him. He’s called the players childish and I completely agree. Absolutely zero common sense and game management in the last 10 minutes, absolutely sickening.
 
I think I overrated him tactically before he came here, I guess it happens when you don't watch all of their games. I guess recruitment/transfers has always been his real big party trick.
 
I'm Mourinho's biggest fan. But someone answer me this. Who is telling the players to allow 10-men Leicester city to have the ball and attack???
 
BluesJr said:
I am one of Jose’s toughest critics but that was absolutely not him. He’s called the players childish and I completely agree. Absolutely zero common sense and game management in the last 10 minutes, absolutely sickening.
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Yep same here, if you look at my history I have been harsh on him but today players are at fault 100%.
 
Why did Mourinho sub off Mata? Mkhitaryan can't hold up the ball and his instinct is to run instead of pass or hold the ball.
 
Alex Styles said:
I'm Mourinho's biggest fan. But someone answer me this. Who is telling the players to allow 10-men Leicester city to have the ball and attack???
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When a team has the momentum and is at home it's only predictable that they'd throw everything at the kitchen sink, it's happened many a time before. Not to add, the 10 man argument doesn't hold much substance as Smalling could barely move.
 
Not Jose’s fault. We played the right game but were fecked over but atrocious finishing, greediness and the fact we can’t take the ball to the corner flag.

The only thing I could say is that Smalling should have either gone off or just stayed in the centre circle.
 
feck all Mou could do. Lads missed sitters. Should have been at least a 2 goal lead. Then we overplayed the ball last 5, lost it and gifted them counter opportunities which is Leicester’s strength.

Jesse and Martial should have finished the game ages ago.
 
I don't blame him for tonight, because contrary to what some people think I don't have an agenda against him, and I recognize when we play attacking football, which we did tonight. Our tempo and movement was much, much better, and the players should have finished that game long before injury time.

League gone.
 
Man-United said:
JM need at least one more season to clear the mess LvG created.
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And you have trust that he can do that? When did he improve a team in year 3? When did he build a team over that period. The worrying thing is that this might be the peak under Mourinho. From all we know we could be worse next year, that's more likely than City not dominating next year too, because Pep usually keeps it up for 2,3 years. We got Jose for short-term glory, I never expected him to build sth great in 4,5 years and the PSG rumours are already there, all a bit underwhelming so far.

And I don't blame him for today, that was poor from the players. But our mentality is weak, our composure is closer to Pool and Arsenal and that shouldn't be the case under Jose.
 
Suedesi said:
Why did Mourinho sub off Mata? Mkhitaryan can't hold up the ball and his instinct is to run instead of pass or hold the ball.
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So annoyed by mourinhos obsession to do this. He's literally the best player in our team at keeping a calm head and keeping the ball when needed or picking the right pass. He never trusts him though when we start defending. Because he's small. So dumb.
 
Think he made the right subs today. The subs I would have made, even with Leicester down to 10.

As I said in the 'Post Match vs Leicester City' thread, we should have been able to keep possession a lot better than we did and kill the game. We didn't and got punished.
 
It's really not his fault the players missed so many chances and De Gea didn't claim the ball in his own 6 yard box at the end
 
Alex Styles said:
I'm Mourinho's biggest fan. But someone answer me this. Who is telling the players to allow 10-men Leicester city to have the ball and attack???
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We were actually keeping the ball well apart from a couple of minutes in this period of time. Do you expect that Leicester, the home team, will decide not to throw everything because they're playing with 10 men? It's not that simple.
 
TMDaines said:
I’m surprised Mou did not give explicit orders out about how to do deal with the Smalling injury, but the players let him down both going forward and at the back today. There will be a lot to analyse when the squad get together tomorrow. So many poor individual decisions and a lack of on-field leadership near the end.

Not sure the manager - or the players for that matter - can do much about the poor misses. You practice and hope your skill doesn’t fail you on the day, but today it did. There was plenty of else that was in the players control however.
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This! If you are seeing that your players are not using their apparently small brains on their own, get off the bench and give orders. Also, what the feck was Faria doing?
 
Did any of you catch Giggs 'analysis' post match on Premier League show? Fecking shred Mourinho, blamed him for taking defensive route any time we are in lead and it's ultimately costing us because we become a one dimensional counter-attack team.
 
Tomuś said:
Sometimes I look at the refs and think are they that stupid or simply want to level the chances for both teams.
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Could also be that it's just an extremely difficult job to make those decisions in an instant without the luxury of replays in slowmotion from seven different angles.

I think it would be beneficial to everyone if people just started accepting that referee errors are a part of the game. The same way sometimes you hit the post and it goes in, sometimes you hit the post and it goes out. That stuff evens out eventually.
 
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Kush said:
Did any of you catch Giggs 'analysis' post match on Premier League show? Fecking shred Mourinho, blamed him for taking defensive route any time we are in lead and it's ultimately costing us because we become a one dimensional counter-attack team.
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Lol yeah that's what cost us, not Lingard and Rashford missing gilt edged chances on the counter or our players failing to hold possession when they had multiple chances in extra time. It's amazing the lengths people will go to blame Mourinho for every single negative thing that occurs.
 
Come on people, 3 of the easiest chances in an half you'll ever see. No manager can legislate for those misses....
 
The players are to blame for that. Rashford should have played Lukaku in. Martial and Lingard have to score. Also why the feck was Smalling in that position at the end. What the feck was Jones doing for the first goal. Shambolic from the players.
 
Kush said:
Did any of you catch Giggs 'analysis' post match on Premier League show? Fecking shred Mourinho, blamed him for taking defensive route any time we are in lead and it's ultimately costing us because we become a one dimensional counter-attack team.
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Ofcouse he will milk it. Today is players to blame. In other words rashford happened.
 
It doesn't look like he has any real interest in being our manager. I'm getting close to breaking point with his crappy football and attitude.
 
This one really isn't on mourinho. Absolutely sinful finishing
 
shamans said:
Today is not on him but generally, it is. Like I said he chose to play these players.
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Who else would he have played instead? Why do people like blaming the wrong person? If Martial, Lingard and Rashford can’t finish those chances at this level then we should all give up.

Jose went with the right tactics. There was no time today we played defensive. Rojo/Darmian were on the bench, if Jose really wanted to be negative, he could have sent either of them on to shore the game up.

The players need to take responsibility particularly Rashford. This was on him. He knew Smalling was injured and one man advantage was gone. He could have kept the ball in the corner flag, waste time, faff around, etc but he kept giving the ball away.
 
The team created many chances and should have won.

At the same time, the inability of the team to keep possession against 10 men is partly on Jose.
 
Turkleton said:
It doesn't look like he has any real interest in being our manager. I'm getting close to breaking point with his crappy football and attitude.
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Dare I ask you to elaborate on what amateur pscychologist/body language expert/bullshit has prompted you to spout this drivel. Or is it just what you want to think
 
Suedesi said:
Why did Mourinho sub off Mata? Mkhitaryan can't hold up the ball and his instinct is to run instead of pass or hold the ball.
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Mkhi has pace to break into the space with Leicester pushing forward.
 
Jev said:
Could also be that's it's just an extremely difficult job to make those decisions in an instant without the luxury of replays in slowmotion from seven different angles.

I think it would be beneficial to everyone if people just started accepting that referee errors are a part of the game. The same way sometimes you hit the post and it goes in, sometimes you hit the post and it goes out. That stuff evens out eventually.
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Normally, yes - that's why I never post in the
post-match reactions' sort of threads but this one was shocking and he couldn't have been better placed if you see the replay. Right in front of his face and it wasn't even a delicate touch from the goalie.

Sort of everyone inside the stadium saw it but the referee, should never be like that as it's inexcusable however you wish to portray it.
 
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