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Originally Posted by dunk
Basically, Mourinho is currently where van Gaal found himself in 2014. He's got a mess to clean up and monies spent matter not a jot, there is still a ton more to be spent, or players to be found from the youth set up. The only way it's going to work is if he's going to be given time to get shit wrong and let the players bed in and let them mould into a team, exactly as LvG was doing and having some success with until the masses ran out of the required patience.
He's going to have to set up defensively and play shit football for a bit until the defence can be relied upon and the midfield functions, this may take a couple of Windows to put right as well, there's no quick fix.
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Very true. Whether you wanted him in or lvg to stay, he was never magically just going to sort things out. The squad has problems. Mentally as much as anything else. Too many shitbags.
He's not helping himself with some indivual choices, but no manager is going to make all the decisions we want (that we don't always all agree on anyway). Moyes didn't, lvg didn't and Fergie didn't. If he got us playing well, I'm not really arsed who is doing it. Its when he's playing Fellaini basically up front and it isn't working that it baffles me.
Sunday was a bad one, but again, it didn't tell us anything we don't already know. We have our issues, but so does the rest of the league. Which is why we're about as far off the top as we were before we got 2 points out of 9.