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Including yesterday that's 3 through the GK and 1 low to his right.
Never needed to win some of us over to start with
I think this is a parody account ?I'm laughing so hard!
This shit is genuinely fascinating.... Hated the guy for 17 years....
Now: love the guy.
But you only gave him to the end of last season to judge him and claimed he had failed by not winning anything and we was better off under Poch.Assuming we are talking about this forum and its members I've not seen a single post lately that backs that up ( I have a small number on ignore so maybe I've missed quotes from this quarter).
I'm not a fan of his, I've made my take very clear so no need to go over old ground but I've not come out with those kinds of takes, in fact, quite the opposite I gave him a complete pass on how we played whilst we were qualifying for EL proper (I thought the results during this phase was impressive).
I don't think he has anything to prove his record speaks for itself. Even at Utd he won trophies with Fellaini, Lingard, Lukaku et al. We've got better players than he had there.Let's hope coming here will see Mourinho get his mojo back after the Utd debacle and prove the doubters wrong.
Where are all the people that didn't want him here?
I will be amazed if we don't win something this season
I think this is a parody account ?
It's okay to hate opposition managers and perfectly natural. It's even okay to not like Jose as our manager, but you have to respect him and his record- the guy has won more trophies in his career than we have as a Club. Let's hope we're not the one he doesn't win something with!I'm laughing so hard!
This shit is genuinely fascinating.... Hated the guy for 17 years....
Now: love the guy.
Us being where we are seems to have pissed off a lot of people. Hopefully they'll be even more pissed off after we win the PL!
There’s a massive difference between the 2-0 last season and The 2-0 this season though.Sadly there are still some that are not behind him, they don’t want to see us sit back against sides like city even if it gets us the win.
It's so obvious that the players have bought what he is selling. Or as Sherwood said in the post match analysis: Allowed themselves to be brainwashed by him. The squad leaders in particular.Mourinho is a big match manager and knows how to prepare his team tactically for these situations. This was probably his best "Mourinho" performance since he arrived and getting a goal less than 5 minutes in was golden.
I think the reasons for the recent resurgence are quite straightforward:
1) Harry Kane is fit and healthy for the first time since he got injured in the 6th round of the FA Cup against Millwall in March 2018.
2) Mourinho done an excellent job of not only identifying squad needs but being flexible in the market to meet those needs.
3) His defensive tactics are becoming second nature to the entire squad and the team is getting better at counter-attacking.
If he can overcome his conservative nature and trust his system with more well-rounded personnel against some of the less talented squads, then we'll be cooking with gas.
If a striker was made in a lab for Jose Mourinho they could not improve upon Kane. He's the perfect 9 for Mourinho.It's so obvious that the players have bought what he is selling. Or as Sherwood said in the post match analysis: Allowed themselves to be brainwashed by him. The squad leaders in particular.
It's going to be hard for a player to go against Jose's game plan when Harry Kane is picking up the third most tackles in a game.
Compare it to United where Pogba did not buy in to it and the rest of the squad followed suit until he managed to get Zlatan in to nullify Paul.
I don't think he has anything to prove his record speaks for itself. Even at Utd he won trophies with Fellaini, Lingard, Lukaku et al. We've got better players than he had there.
What i would say is that if you look at his career it's full of extreme highs and then extreme lows. The key is to enjoy the highs and try not to lose your shit during the lows.
“It amazes me how many Utd fans still despise him and it almost stops them evaluating their current nonentity of a manager properly.”
Hopefully we won't make that mistake.
This Twitter post pretty much summarizes my feelings:The difference that I have observed between their fans and our fans is that the majority of us don’t take anything for granted. The sense of entitlement of the United fanbase is what drove them to view Jose that way. No one team is entitled to win the premier league or challenge the premier league whilst playing beautiful football! This is the toughest league in the world! Building a team is the toughest thing and Jose has shown it over and over again that if given the support and trust, he will build a competitive team. He was basically allowed to do his job with one arm tied round his back and when it got towards the end of his tenure there, he pretty much had two arms tied behind his back. So, he fought the problems openly!
What’s worse, they wanted Jose to challenge and compete for the league whilst playing the “United Way” which many of them define as fast, attacking, beautiful flowing football, while bringing through their academy players! Like some for the pundits such as Gary Neville have said, before they know it, it’ll be 20 years before they challenge for the title again.
When Jose was battling player power and the lack of support from his bosses, the fanbase sided with their shiny social media elite players and their most hated Ed Woodward!
I hope I’m right about our fanbase here