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Originally Posted by Sparky***
Bingo. The crash back down to earth over the last 3 years has been dramatic and humbling.
It's the same self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitude that people have re:Mourinho, that saw us employ Moyes. "All we have to do is employ someone who's scottish to keep things ticking over. Easy"
A catastrophic error in judgement if there ever was one. We should have gone for the best available, which at that time was Mourinho.
Sometimes I think United fans can be the biggest £#%&!ing hypocrites going tbh. Talking about Mourinho having to change to fit in with the angelic image of Manchester United.  I've never heard such self rightous %@#$&!s. For over 25 years we had a man in charge who scowled, blagged and %@#$&!ed his way through press conferences, kicked boots in player's faces, told a sky journalist to '£#%&! off', specialised in winding up other managers and took our club down a dark road in an argument over ownership of a £#%&!ing horse. And yet we forgave him all of it because he won. A £#%&!ing lot. That's without us throwing our full support behind players who've karate kicked supporters, swore at TV cameras during the game and smashed players up the air out of revenge, then admitted it in a book.  They were all hailed as heroes because they were our heroes. Manchester United are not the moral bastions of genial behaviour, i'd say considering all that, Mourinho would fit in rather well. We make a very good home for maverick egos.
Then there's the "he plays defensive football" thing. Which is, if I may say, about as myopic as it gets. Leicester are earning all the praise in the world at the moment, top of the league. Beat Liverpool the other night. Had 30% possession, at home. Nobody is calling them boring or defensive. People will use the example of that notorious night at the Nou Camp in 2010 where Mourinho decided not to try and out-football barcelona with 10 men. As if it were such a crazy idea. You should rather look at Inter's first leg performance at the San Siro where they blew Barca away 3-1. He is defensive when he has to be, like every good coach. Fergie was, he loved a good old 1-0 win in an important game.
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They're getting praised because they're Leicester. If they were Chelsea they'd be seen as a functional counter-attacking side.
Mourinho is the arch pragmatist. That means attacking football at times; it means defensive football at times. It also means every trick in the book to gain the slightest advantage. We can talk all day about getting the winning mentality back and how he's got the character to wind up the scousers or something, but the fact is that if an ultra cynical, Mourinho-led United are trying to squeeze the life out of most big games, home and away, domestically and in Europe, then there is massive pressure to win. Even then, there will be debate.
Not sure why people think a club having a tradition and principle is arrogance. It's not. Mourinho's antics are an embarrassment to any club not reliant on him elevating their status like Chelsea. If he comes to United, he will not survive without changing his ways.
By the sounds of it, he knows that.
06-02-2016, 03:45 PM
I love you, you glorious Portugese bastard
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