Someone's having a real laugh - shitcoat to Utd.

[G Richards]

He's sending out a disjointed team and then throwing the players under the bus. It's not going to end well for Mourinho. I thought the honeymoon would last longer. I thought they would do well and perhaps even win the league, this season or next, before the usual third season meltdown you get with Mourinho kicked in.

 

However...

 

Third season? Not likely. They have a lot of good players, but he is not getting a tune out of them. And he is so forthright in blaming the players. Sooner or later they will start fighting among themselves, if it isn't already happening, and then some will turn on the manager.

 

Oh, and if they don't want Luke Shaw we'll take him off their hands.

[CWD82]

I hope this talk is proven to be accurate but I feel like he'll limp through to January, blow a load more money, then get 2nd, then blow more money in the summer and get it right next season.

 

The players he has signed are good players, it's the ones who have been there for a while that are causing them problems

 

Hopefully I'm wrong and he implodes spectacularly and he fucks off for good

[AngryOfTuebrook]

At his very first press conference at Old Trafford, back in July, Mourinho made a point of saying he had no truck with wishy-washy compromises: he wanted specialists in every position. And yet at Watford, for a game laden with added significance on the back of defeats to Manchester City and Feyenoord, he had no specialists between defence and attack. His whole midfield was a muddle.

 

That was largely – though not exclusively – because Wayne Rooney assumed exactly the role that Mourinho insisted he would not be given, the deep-lying playmaker with licence to dictate the tempo of play. A slow, ponderous tempo. “You can tell me his pass is amazing but my pass is also amazing without pressure,” Mourinho scoffed in July and yet here the diminutive Portuguese was in September, seemingly, like Roy Hodgson and Sam Allardyce, allowing his team to be disrupted by a diminished Rooney.

Fixed it.

(Only a slight change, but you have to get these things right.)

[Iceman]

It's great to see the twat under pressure so early.

[deiseach]

At his very first press conference at Old Trafford, back in July, Mourinho made a point of saying he had no truck with wishy-washy compromises: he wanted specialists in every position. And yet at Watford, for a game laden with added significance on the back of defeats to Manchester City and Feyenoord, he had no specialists between defence and attack. His whole midfield was a muddle.

 

That was largely – though not exclusively – because Wayne Rooney assumed exactly the role that Mourinho insisted he would not be given, the deep-lying playmaker with licence to dictate the tempo of play. A slow, ponderous tempo. “You can tell me his pass is amazing but my pass is also amazing without pressure,” Mourinho scoffed in July and yet here the diminutive Portuguese was in September, seemingly, like Roy Hodgson and Sam Allardyce, allowing his team to be disrupted by a diminished Rooney.

 

Fixed it.

(Only a slight change, but you have to get these things right.)

 

 

(h/t)

[setreal]

He looks like the engineer from Prometheus with AIDS.

 

Is that the sequel?

[JustTosh]

Football’s changing. What was good 10 years ago isn’t that good anymore.

 

When shitcoat entered the scene it was with new ideas that changed the game and took others by surprise. Maybe it’s just me but I also feel he wasn’t as defensive minded 10 years ago.

 

Now, his style and approach to the game has been found out. A lot of it has been adopted by other managers and developed further. Mourinho seems to be stuck with his old ideas, not able to renew his ideas.

 

Maybe the fact he’s able to buy players from the very top shelf can save him, cover up his inability?  I hope not.

 

Still, it’s early days. In the league he’s had one slip up (like ourselves at Burnley) and lost the derby to what is arguably the best team in the league right now. They might bounce back.

[thegreatelephant]

Murphy on motd cooing over Rooney. 'great passing, that's what he gives you all day long'

 

This must be what it's like living in North Korea.

yellow journalism

[Xherdan]

Its only September and he is already in with the excuses. Its fucking magnificent.

[deiseach]

Murphy on motd cooing over Rooney. 'great passing, that's what he gives you all day long'

 

This must be what it's like living in North Korea.

 

What the free world needs is more on how Joe Hart is faring in Turin.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

 

Great stuff.

 

It feels wrong, as he's probably not all there, but the moment he slapped his forehead and it made him burp had me laughing.

 

Also, "He's about as reliable as a chocolate teapot... and they're hardly reliable".

[njackets]

I'm not having all this football has changed/his tactics have been found out shit. I don't think he's ever been this ground breaking tactical genius anyway.

[Guest Alex_K]

It feels wrong, as he's probably not all there, but the moment he slapped his forehead and it made him burp had me laughing.

 

Also, "He's about as reliable as a chocolate teapot... and they're hardly reliable".

 

The pitfalls of being a Mancunian. 

[Unrighteous]

I'm not having all this football has changed/his tactics have been found out shit. I don't think he's ever been this ground breaking tactical genius anyway.

 

He's like a Cult Leader, and sometimes he can get a team to drink the kool-aid.  That's really his thing.

[Section_31]

I'm not having all this football has changed/his tactics have been found out shit. I don't think he's ever been this ground breaking tactical genius anyway.

 

 

What he did well in his first stint at chelsea is what Wenger also did well when he first turned up at Arsenal. He kept a core of English players but then built powerful midfields because they realised that's where most games are won and lost over here. 

 

His first side at chelsea was so purpose built for English football Allardyce probably loses half a stone of cum just thinking about it. 'Big lad' up front, plenty of midfield bite, central defender who's good in the air. All that was missing was the Bovril.

 

Whenever he's deviated from that it's all gone tits up, why he continues to do so I've no idea, I do firmly believe someone else is calling the transfer shots at the mancs though, as this is the third manager in succession that's adopted the exact same transfer blueprint, expensive 'names' (often has beens) brought in yet absolutely nothing done to tackle the kind of footballing flaws that bird out of the Lionel Richie 'Hell' video could see. 

 

Long may it continue however. 

[El Rojo]

Breaking news: Manchester United fan expresses doubt about reliability and practicality of chocolate teapots

[Horus]

 

Great stuff.

You should never mock those that have sausage and beans for dinner.

[G Richards]

The perils of modern technology. Everyone has a phone to record and upload video footage these days, if so desired. With that said, I could only watch a few seconds of that 10min review from that disgruntled Man Utd fan as he's not all there.

[Redder Lurtz]

[Guest]

 

That's great, team United bashing combination from Citeh and Watford. Who would have thought that ten years ago?

[Babb'sBurstNad]

He's like a Cult Leader, and sometimes he can get a team to drink the kool-aid.  That's really his thing.

 

The Joseteam Massacre

[Xherdan]

According to Matt Hughes at the Times, United players are 'shocked at Mourinho's treatment of Shaw'. And its only September. 

[G Richards]

Just thinking about their model, and wondering how sustainable it is. For want of a better word, they seem to be going down the galactico route. Splash the cash, buy some names, and hey presto. Only in this league it's not that easy. There are few, if any, mugs in the Premier League. You have to earn the right to play, week in week out. You have to fight for each other.

 

In short, it needs a team. This rather obvious point might be in danger of being overlooked in the age of obscene money and PR. I'm glad we have Klopp. If there's one thing that defines him, it's his team first ethic. Everyone fighting for the shirt, doing their job.

 

Compare/contrast. Liverpool fans giving Moreno dogs abuse (with some justification, to be fair) but then Klopp standing his ground and choosing to work with the player, while obviously being pragmatic enough to put Milner in there and take an underperforming player out of the firing line.

 

What about Luke Shaw? Worked hard to come back from a horrible injury, only to have that divvy Mourinho having a pop at him, when he's not been bad at all.

[Guest]

Just thinking about their model, and wondering how sustainable it is. For want of a better word, they seem to be going down the galactico route. Splash the cash, buy some names, and hey presto. Only in this league it's not that easy. There are few, if any, mugs in the Premier League. You have to earn the right to play, week in week out. You have to fight for each other.

 

In short, it needs a team. This rather obvious point might be in danger of being overlooked in the age of obscene money and PR. I'm glad we have Klopp. If there's one thing that defines him, it's his team first ethic. Everyone fighting for the shirt, doing their job.

 

Compare/contrast. Liverpool fans giving Moreno dogs abuse (with some justification, to be fair) but then Klopp standing his ground and choosing to work with the player, while obviously being pragmatic enough to put Milner in there and take an underperforming player out of the firing line.

 

What about Luke Shaw? Worked hard to come back from a horrible injury, only to have that divvy Mourinho having a pop at him, when he's not been bad at all.

 

I hate the idea of Liverpool ever signing one of their players, but Luke Shaw would fit with Klopp perfectly.

 

If he wants out in the future, Klopp should be in there like a rat up a drainpipe. In a non-sexual way.

[El Rojo]

We should tap Luke Shaw up by texting him pictures of burgers and pizza.