Jose calling out Klopp and Poch

Originally Posted by Buck

He has the Billy Redface habit of using forty words when ten will do. Makes his comments cringe. Must improve on clarity and snide.....

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Clarkie

Still off in the summer apparently

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Welcome to managing United, Jose. How many times was Fergie taken for granted or written off? Cracks down the United badge on the front page after a dodgy week? You'll never be a media darling managing us, pal. Leave that to the small fry.

A post of yours most of us will agree with there

there's no need to 'speak' (as he puts it) about klopp and 'poch' unless they start on him. makes him look thin-skinned and overinflates their importance otherwise.

this is all straight out of the mourinho playbook anyway. as danny taylor points out in the observer, it is probably displacement activity arising from guardiola and city doing so well.

Originally Posted by taff

there's no need to 'speak' (as he puts it) about klopp and 'poch' unless they start on him. makes him look thin-skinned and overinflates their importance otherwise.

this is all straight out of the mourinho playbook anyway. as danny taylor points out in the observer, it is probably displacement activity arising from guardiola and city doing so well.

Not sure where he’s spoken about Klopp or Poch

Originally Posted by 20 times

Not sure where he’s spoken about Klopp or Poch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allusion

Originally Posted by taff

there's no need to 'speak' (as he puts it) about klopp and 'poch' unless they start on him. makes him look thin-skinned and overinflates their importance otherwise.

this is all straight out of the mourinho playbook anyway. as danny taylor points out in the observer, it is probably displacement activity arising from guardiola and city doing so well.

I’d say it was about changing the focus of the media narrative towards something he considers less problematic. Everything Mourinho does is for a reason, much like Fergie.

Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger

I’d say it was about changing the focus of the media narrative towards something he considers less problematic. Everything Mourinho does is for a reason, much like Fergie.

Been drawing heat for picking on the fans lately. A go at rival managers might help get some of the more easily led on side perhaps.

All smoke and mirrors really. Won't have answered his critics til he wins a title and/or European Cup (proper one) with us.

Originally Posted by andyroo

Been drawing heat for picking on the fans lately. A go at rival managers might help get some of the more easily led on side perhaps.

I don’t think he gives a shit about that. That in itself was a deflection tactic to get away from the narrative of boring negative football that might affect the players. He changed the narrative to Jose and the fans rather than the team. The effect on the team’s morale and mentality relating to results is all he gives a shit about and that’s what most of his media stuff will be about. That and club politics.