The thing with Mourinho is that he builds a perfect engine with the components he needs, an engine capable of winning the PL. He knows exactly what is needed to complete the puzzle, so he might turn down better pieces than the ones he has at that moment because they don't fit his system. He added Fabregas and Costa to that chelsea side and these were just the players he needed to win the title. He did the same thing while building his Inter team, got rid of players who couldn't fit his vision and brought in ones that he knew he could extract the best out of.
Compare that to Arsenal which, due to the dictates of budget or otherwise, are very opportunistic with their purchases, they already had Cazorla when they got Ozil just because he became available. Wenger later retrofitted Cazorla to a CM and made another functional team. Mourinho never did this force fitting in his earlier terms, he was always attempting to build the perfect picture.
This is the first time it seems that he's had some signings which he made before he had a proper plan about what to do with them. Pogba was brought first and then other players were brought in to try and make him perform better. Even the Sanchez transfer was a little opportunistic, Martial and Rashford were already covering the LW/Striker positions, ideally Utd could've done better with an elite RW. It'll test Mourinho to be able to make a coherent whole from the parts he's been given. If he's able to win big with this team, it'll be his biggest achievement yet, imo.
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