The worst thing that board can do is to leave this as it stands. They must say to players that Mourinho is staying no matter what or sack him.
The Mourinho Thread: Should he stay or go? | Sacked
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He's 8/13 to be gone before Christmas day. I fully expect him to go in the next 6 games.
I feel exactly the same way
Hes lost it, he is not the same manager he used to be and its painfully evident.
When players down tools this early on, not saying ours 100% have, the manager usually doesn't last very long. To be fair, after a bit of thought I don't think the board will wait as long as they have in the past. They already seemed to be in two minds after the summer and not backing Mourinho's choice, all speculation on my part though.
If I was Woody I would bring in Zidane to Carrington while Mou is training. Then the former will go on signing a contract while the latter is shown the door.
Well, you can't say we didn't know what we were letting ourselves in for. There's no better man to bring this sort of situation into the trenches and make the parting of ways infinitely more damaging than it has to be. Football is a game of opinions and all that, but I struggle to see how anyone thinks he's going to turn this around (and by turn it around, I mean to do the job he was brought in for, win big trophies). Best case scenario right now, he gets us top 4 and the whole cycle starts again next summer i.e. do we back him or sack him? Both sides will walk away dissatisfied. The club will feel that they hired a super manager who has failed to improve very many of the players he has worked with. Mourinho will feel that he hasn't been given the tools to challenge City. Both are correct, I suspect.
947 people in the 'out' column at the time of writing.
His supporters are decreasing at an alarming rate.
His supporters are decreasing at an alarming rate.
Adam knows...Mourinho Out!
I'm still Jose in because I believe the players have let him down massively over the past few years Whether that's because they never believed in his philosophy, weren't motivated enough to follow his instructions or just did not suit... I don't know. I also think that the board messed up this summer as we'd had a relatively successful season and needed the players Jose had identified for the next push.
HOWEVER a change in management right now seems the best possible solution to save our season. His signing was polarising for fans from the beginning and for some fans, the only way that he and his style of football would have even been accepted is through continual success which he did not achieve last season.
HOWEVER a change in management right now seems the best possible solution to save our season. His signing was polarising for fans from the beginning and for some fans, the only way that he and his style of football would have even been accepted is through continual success which he did not achieve last season.
Completely agree with everything, keeping Jose is not an option though and I’d rather enter into unknown that Carrick and McKenna currently personify.
Players aren't playing for him, and he's stuck in past tactics wise.i like him gone asap so a new manager could judge squad before next summer and sell the players that he doesn't want or need.
Thank goodness you aren't in charge then. What a terrible post.
We need to get Rooney back and turn him in to a CB.
Just when I thought Moyes and LvG had broken almost all dubious records, Jose makes it one more with worst start in 29 years.
You sound like a broken record.
Fair enough.
You can still support him but think its time to go.
If we don't get top 4 then the board needs to go as well.
Frankly this season was so predictable i don't know why we all convinced ourselves that it wouldn't happen. Not at United, cause we're too special for it. Mourinho is Mourinho, he wasn't going to change for us. The signs were there when he willingly threw the club under the bus to deflect blame from himself. But we convinced ourselves that he was "telling things how they were", "fighting for the fans" or even more unbelievably, "protecting his players".
Christmas Day/New Year’s was my prediction before the season started, but just about every week that passes it dwindles. I was saying sacked by Halloween to some friends after the league cup game.
He'll be gone if we lose to Valencia.
We've got some very difficult games in the next 6 too. Valencia, Chelsea and Juventus could all be dropped points, in fact all of October could end up being tricky, we play Everton and Newcastle too.
I support him but the players seem to have turned against him so realistically speaking, his time is up.
Yeah that's why I expect him to go. I can't see where the next win is coming from.
I'd like to think we could easily do Newcastle at home but I'm not confident of anything at the moment
Going to Juve in a token role until he finds his next management jobZidane is going to Juve. Conte?
If we lose to Valencia, Chelsea and Juventus, our season is effectively over.
He'll probably put Juan Mata in goal and Martial at CB to make sure.I'd like to think we could easily do Newcastle at home but I'm not confident of anything at the moment
Yikes, this place is going to be fun...
I'd like to think we could easily do Newcastle at home but I'm not confident of anything at the moment
Exactly. You'd think that but again the way were playing I'd not be surprised if we dropped points against Newcastle. Plus Rafa would fecking love it.
McTominay in a back 3, is he actively trying to sabotage this season? Knows he is going down, wants the club to go down with him?
Poisonous man.
Poisonous man.
Yeah. Assistant something or other.
Just changed my vote to yes. Hopefully Ed has too.
You and some may have convinced yourselves of that, there was a sizable portion of us who felt Mourinho was a disaster waiting to happen. Not only will he be gone soon, but the damage he has done will not be easy to repair for the next manager either. Whether it's his tactics, man-management, or attitude, Mourinho has been a massive, massive failure.
I'd like to think we could easily do Newcastle at home but I'm not confident of anything at the moment
Newcastle may be poor, but they have Benitez. A half decent manager can show Jose up nowadays.
Really wanted him to do well, always thought he was meant to manage the club but it isn’t working out. The camp is apparently divided, the football is awful and the results are poor.
Get the fraud out. I'm 100% done with him and half the team if I'm honest.
There's two things though, that I hope ALL of us on this board are prepared for:
1) Carrick and McKenna will have us finishing around 10th, so be prepared for a really demoralising remainder of the season.
2) Any new manager, regardless of who he is, is not going to make mid-table dross like Valencia, Jones, Lindelöf, McTominay, Lingard et al look world class. And that set of absolute frauds are still going to be around, stinking up the place. So be prepared for more of the same next season, albeit with probably better attacking football fingers crossed.
There's two things though, that I hope ALL of us on this board are prepared for:
1) Carrick and McKenna will have us finishing around 10th, so be prepared for a really demoralising remainder of the season.
2) Any new manager, regardless of who he is, is not going to make mid-table dross like Valencia, Jones, Lindelöf, McTominay, Lingard et al look world class. And that set of absolute frauds are still going to be around, stinking up the place. So be prepared for more of the same next season, albeit with probably better attacking football fingers crossed.
12m to pay him off? If that's it, do it, took bigger hits before. Lost more on Veron 15 years ago..
Am sure Woodward can make it back from some obscure noodle sponsor
Am sure Woodward can make it back from some obscure noodle sponsor
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