Woodward doesn't manage the team, he doesn't select the starting 11, he doesn't coach them, tell them how to go out and play, motivate them, whatever. Woodward only provides new signings and money to spend, is the decision maker on whether the manager stays or goes I presume. People can criticize him all they like, but at the end of the day, if you have the right manager in charge who knows how to coach the team properly, it doesn't matter too much who the other guy is. Lack of funding or quality players is not what is stopping Mourinho from playing any decent brand of football. It's not stopping us from having the players to outplay trash opposition. That's 100% on Mourinho and his failure to coach us properly.
Wish a journalist would put this to him. He’s becoming wenger. Maybe this would make him realise how bad it’s got.
Yep probably something in that. The success he’s had has always been middle sized clubs with decent investment.
We are 6th and playing horrible footballer after investing 400million.
This is one of the stupidest posts I have seen in a while.
Chin up mate, you seem terribly sad.
I can't seem to ever find it after I saw it a while ago, but there was a snippet from a newspaper of a job posting as requirements for the manager of Arsenal (wayyyyyy back). I remember the main thing they were looking for at the time was "a coach who can actually coach a side, not just buy 11 new players". It's amazing how so many people buy into Mourinho's bullshit. The way it's always been at any normal club is a manager takes over, and has to prove his worth first with what he has. Once he proves that he's capable of improving what he has, bringing a good level out of his players, than he gets more funding because you believe with better players, you can achieve yet better results that bring you up a level. That's what Klopp did at Liverpool. That's what's happening with Emery at Arsenal. Pochettino at Spurs (though they still don't give him too much). Every single club that doesn't do financial doping has operated like this. Yet seemingly it seems so foreign to us. All the blame goes to not signing a 29 year old center back for 70m. feck that. Prove you can improve and get the best out of the 500m worth of talent you have at the club first, then go and complain if that isn't enough. As it stands, everyone plays below their level, we buy new big names, who then go on to flop, and then replace them with more expensive flops, and so on.
Moratti did not buy him his targets and went for cheaper options instead. Real definitely did not back him all the way because they never do that with their manager. Oh, and no manager in the history of the game has been backed all the way if your definitions of all the way is getting every player you want. Guardiola for a start missed out on Van Dijk, Sanchez, Jorginho and Fred with his board failing to get him the backup defensive midfielder he wanted for Fernandinho. Klopp up until last season with Van Dijk and Alisson has been shopping at markets that we sniffed at with players coming from the likes of Hoffenheim, Hull, Newcastle and a Man City reject. If we targeted those markets, our board would have been lynched. If Mourinho's condition for success are something that has never been enjoyed by anyone, I am not sure what is he supposed to be paid for.
I am with you there. He did nothing surprising. The team he built last year was not that dissimilar to his last Chelsea winning team. Only difference was we had City to compete with and that Chelsea team did not. Both of us were exposed for how limited we were when playing against Europe with how we couldn't hold on to the ball against any decent opposition. If it weren't for City, we would have won the league but it still would not have made us a top team the same way it did not for most PL winners since 2009.
Backing is relative. No one gets backed all the way, never happened, does not happen and never will. The only barometer is how backed compared to the competition. The highest wage bill in the league and second most expensive squad mean there are at least 19 others who have a more justifiable claim for the lack of backing.
If you expect to keep up with City's spending it won't happen anytime soon. There are other teams higher up on the table that have proved you don't need to continually spend to be competitive. This notion that United are languishing in 8th and playing disjointed football because a CB wasn't signed is a false narrative. Please, let's stop bringing up this "fully backed" tripe.
What is a "great chequebook manager" and who else qualifies as one? Stretching for compliments
Bale never played for Mourinho.
Sure doesn't seem like it.
I am beginning to believe in the our players don't have the right mentality stuff albeit for totally different reasons. My reason is their mentality must be questioned that they did not have a full on mutiny against a man who treats them with such contempt. Mourinho treated the Real and Chelsea players with far less crassness and they still wouldn't put up with it. They as much as gave the people in charge an ultimatum whereas ours just seem to go along with whatever new belittling comment he makes every week.
I'm alright man, just hate that I rather watching other teams than us these days!