I think too much is made of the impact a manager can have at a club if the conditions aren't right. Everyone is convinced that Moyes, Van Gaal, Mourinho and now Ole are flops or at if not flops, just weren't the right fit to get us back to title winning form. But I think the bigger problem is the club itself spent the best part of 30 years, being run top to bottom (or at least much more so than other clubs) by it's manager. So when SAF left, that hole couldn't simply be filled by a coach, which modern managers effectively are. We can talk about the money each manager since SAF has spent, but a lot of that has got to do with the Utd tax, which is vast. I know people talk about the game "moving on" etc, but most of the time I tend to think that is pretentious crap. Football is never going to change that much. LVG and Mourinho are both proven winners, at the highest level, so if they struggle, I think it's much more likely that the failings are within the structure of the club itself, rather than the directives of the managers. To me, it's clear as day, that Mourinho is still as good as anyone and though he had some successful with us, by his standards he flopped. So, I'm inclined to think in the post SAF era, any manager would have struggled here.
) , how he is too negative in press conf. and in third season board (Ed) killed his authority with standing on Pogba and Martial's side and refused to buy him certain players despite having money for them (famous situation where Ed refused to buy Perisic and Toby because "we have better players in squad"). That was the moment when Jose knew it is over and just waited for sack. he even pushed for it.
