I think its because it feels exactly the same as the start of the last season, starting slow with zero intensity and the players strolling around feeling sorry for themselves rather than doing something about it.
It definitely has the feel of the end of Poch's era, which is why I'm giving Mourinho 10 games before he is gone.
He looks out of ideas, the excuses he is making about players not having a pre-season sounds desperate.
I don’t think what he said about preseason is desperate, it’s true. This was a bizarre preseason and now he’s admitted we had players who both had corona and who had to isolate due to proximity to those players. Kane missed two weeks of training because of quarantine and didn’t play one minute of our preseason.
But every team has had these issues. Liverpool were wobbly and made mistakes against Leeds, but they still played with a big intensity to win. Our players showed no appetite for the game in the second half. That‘s really concerning and is a problem we’ve had for a long time, of only playing for half the game.