There are totally legitimate concerns around Mou’s ability to challenge at the top end of the modern game. I just don’t think you can judge him that harshly on the current situation. He came in mid-season to a team in relegation form still suffering a hangover after losing the CL final. There have been significant injuries to Lloris, Davies, Ndombele, Sissoko, Kane, Son and Lamela. Eriksen was sold in January and we didn’t sign a striker even though Kane was already out for the season.
Despite this we have made up a lot of ground on 4th place and are still in the CL and FA Cup by playing some scrappy football, but now the injuries and workload placed on the team are having a big effect. No manager could do much better than what we are doing, I think some fans are not being realistic about the standard of our team. We’ve had about 4 or 5 decent 90 minutes since the start of last season, I am 100% serious about that. There are problems with the team that have been festering for the better part of 2 years, and until we get to the summer window and have a proper pre-season, there is no chance of them being fixed.
I see people ranting about Mourinho-ball but I don’t see any difference in quality really between this scrappy stuff and the chaotic hoofball/utterly sterile possession football we played from January 2019 onwards under Poch. This team is lacking many of the ingredients needed to play high quality football, partly due to injuries and partly due to lack of transfer activity. We need to give Mourinho and our new players time. It’s tough to fix all our problems in the middle of the season and impossible to do it without our best players.
Despite this we have made up a lot of ground on 4th place and are still in the CL and FA Cup by playing some scrappy football, but now the injuries and workload placed on the team are having a big effect. No manager could do much better than what we are doing, I think some fans are not being realistic about the standard of our team. We’ve had about 4 or 5 decent 90 minutes since the start of last season, I am 100% serious about that. There are problems with the team that have been festering for the better part of 2 years, and until we get to the summer window and have a proper pre-season, there is no chance of them being fixed.
I see people ranting about Mourinho-ball but I don’t see any difference in quality really between this scrappy stuff and the chaotic hoofball/utterly sterile possession football we played from January 2019 onwards under Poch. This team is lacking many of the ingredients needed to play high quality football, partly due to injuries and partly due to lack of transfer activity. We need to give Mourinho and our new players time. It’s tough to fix all our problems in the middle of the season and impossible to do it without our best players.
who's to say he wouldn't have another PL title to his name if it wasn't for those swindlers?
