Typical Jose away performance. Too timid, too defensive. Shouldve got at United and I have no doubt they would've won. Reminded me of Sevilla actually. Looks like he hasn't changed at all
Jose Mourinho | Spurs manager
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Spurs fans been buzzing on here with Jose taking over Poch.....can’t fecking wait until it all goes to shit.
Used to be a world class manager but he’s not the same guy anymore, they’ll be missing Poch before long.
Used to be a world class manager but he’s not the same guy anymore, they’ll be missing Poch before long.
I thought he might change his style a bit for Spurs but that was pretty awful hoofball at times.We dominated them.
I think Spurs fullback woes are worse than ours
Too late to realise. Even some of Spurs fans didn’t realise that as well. They lost Trippier and haven’t replace him, left back is still in a mess & centre backs are ageing and they might lose two of the centre backs for free in the summer. I have said this before that they are currently in a worse situation for rebuilding than us.
Does anyone else find it strange that Mourinho opted out of the standard 10 game win streak that any manager can achieve at a new club?
He took that well, to his credit.
The players are too depressed after losing the bestest manager ever.
Their lack of pressing from the front, was a noticeable change. They let us play out from the back nearly everytime.
Felt like they played a lot of long balls too, even in the periods where they had a lot of the ball, they didn't seem threatening.
Felt like they played a lot of long balls too, even in the periods where they had a lot of the ball, they didn't seem threatening.
Vertonghen at left back with his age is a weird thing. I know Rose isn’t in great form, but why not play him?
No surprise really, he isnt under pressure, things are still fresh, didnt take a part in transfer window either, still on his original contract.
Aye, it's in a year or so where if we beat him he'll say something snidey.
I hold no ill will to him though to be honest. He had to be sacked here, I'm sure he'll do good things with Spurs for a bit and then he'll implode and it'll all go horribly wrong.
They weren't defensive though, that was the issue for them. How can a team fielding Dele, Son, Moura and Kane be defensive? I agree though - can you imagine Mourinho in his prime in this game, he'd have come and started the same back four, something like Wanyama and Sissoko in front of them with Winks alone in CM and then sat deep and killed the game and probably nicked a goal. I get he's only just into the job and it's not his team but it was a weird team selection especially since he's talked about how poor we are vs the low block as a pundit on Sky.
Reminded me of our football with him in charge today. Going to be a lots of ups and downs for the Spurs fans over the next year or two.
In fairness he tweaked his position and made him play closer to Kane
When Dele was on top form was that not his position?
I don’t think we learnt anything at all from tonight’s game and I don’t think we would have learnt anything if Spurs had won. He’s been in charge for 2 weeks and their squad needs a decent overhaul along with some time spent to work on their defence. People are so desperate to stick the knife in after 1 result.
Then play with freedom. Instead he shat the bed, played defensively and hoped individual brilliance would pull him out of the shit. Exactly the same crap he was serving up for us for 3 seasons.
Sorry but it was a typical Jose performance.
I think the credit that you have to give is that how he was able to motivate Alli again not how he was able to improve Alli. Alli has his best season under Pochettino, Mourinho basically tried to regain that performance back to him by motivating him.
Rashford is what I called improvement. He never done something like what he’s been doing so far under Mourinho, his ability at that time wasn’t equally as good as now.
That's the difference having a competent midfield makes though, Villa had the pleasure of Pereira and Fred but Fred's a different beast with McTominay, it gave us a much better control of the match.
Kane needs to learn how to play in a Mourinho system, he wouldn't be the first player to suffer under Jose. Alli on the other hand looks a new player compared to the one we've seen over the last two seasons.
Glad to see he's still shite, despite the grovelling from his acolytes.
Eriksen, if he remains. If not, either Dele Ali or Son.
Schooled.
Sad to think some so called United supporters on here are probably disappointed.
Sad to think some so called United supporters on here are probably disappointed.
That’s textbook Mourinho right there. His teams never press.
I didn’t get to watch the match but reading the threads around the Caf, it seems like a typical Mourinho away from home big game set up. So much for learning from his mistakes
Not at all...I hope the cnut is there for a few years so he can totally feck them up. They almost won a CL (well......for 20 seconds). I don't ever want them that close again.
Oh dear, so you're saying things will get far worse for Spurs.
Haha, don't I look like a twat with my previous shout - "He'll shush the Stretford Eng after beating us".
Get fecked, Jose shitball. Can't wait till this tenure (inevitably) ends in tears and ends up ruining Spurs.
Get fecked, Jose shitball. Can't wait till this tenure (inevitably) ends in tears and ends up ruining Spurs.
I hope it's Son and we go for him
He ruined us. Half a million wasted and we ended up worse than when he joined. He won two shit trophies that we shouldn't even be interested in and some weirdos act like he was the second coming.
I expect him to ruin Spurs too. Hopefully we can help start the process by selling Matic to them.
It's a mystery best left unsolved
The thing with Jose is, we all know how this is going to end. Sure, he may end up having some success along the way, possibly next season, and I wouldn’t put it past him to do better than we do next season, but no matter what, it’s inevitable that it’s going to end up in flames the year after. There’s nothing more predictable in world football than the Mourinho end of regime meltdown.
He showed up at Old Trafford with his usual tactical approach. He looked at United and thought 'how do I stop them from playing the game they want to play' and probably thought to himself, ah yes, I'll have a deep block to stop Rashford from having room to run through and then hit them on the counter.
He then went on to fail for the exact reason he failed with United. He didn't bother to play to his own team's strength - rather focused on stopping the oppositions. Had he set up Spurs to press high and dominate possession in our half we would have been fecked. Ali, Son, Harry, and Erikson are lethal players around the box. They don't need to play on the counter.
He then went on to fail for the exact reason he failed with United. He didn't bother to play to his own team's strength - rather focused on stopping the oppositions. Had he set up Spurs to press high and dominate possession in our half we would have been fecked. Ali, Son, Harry, and Erikson are lethal players around the box. They don't need to play on the counter.
I was skeptical about the third season syndrome at first but now I believe He always has a big chance of a meltdown after a few years at the same club. His mentality is built around Me vs The World, good for short-term when you're the underdogs.
He's a coward. Came to United with a midfield of Harry Winks and Sissoko and played it into our hands. People need to stop pretending that he's a tactical wizard these days. His days were over five years ago. Kane was rendered useless due to his tactics.
Aurier, Sissoko, probably
I forgot Harry Kane even played.
That was Kane's standard game v us.
Same, I don't think he even had a shot at goal.
Usually one of them is young player.