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Originally Posted by utd99
He wanted new defenders because the ones he bought weren’t good enough. He buys Bailly and Lindelof and plays Smalling and Jones. Buys Dalot and plays Valencia. Buys Pogba and benches him because -surprise surprise- he’s an immature, preening #@&%!. Buys Fred and doesn’t play him. Buys Mkhitaryan and the because he’s shit swaps him for Sanchez, who’s shit.
We bang on about Guardiola because he was able to ditch a bunch of past-it players and replace them in short time, including his own duff buy of Bravo, but the players he brought in performed. Big difference.
How many players would Mourinho have wanted before he was satisfied with the ‘support’, 20? 30? Would anything have been his fault?
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Good post. The answer to your question is no, Mou by that stage was incapable of accepting blame. He resented everything while he was here from the media coverage he received, the players he inherited or bought, the players he didn't buy, the coverage other managers got etc etd ad infinitum. He was a busted flush but while I can understand why someone as clueless as Ed would hire him in the first place I can't understand how after two years he saw fit to renew his contract, not back him in the following window but then wait until our season was effectively over to sack him.