Jose Mourinho is proving Manchester United right with every passing week – Dominic Booth

If Manchester United followers are Tottenham Hotspur proper now with an odd sense of deja vu, then it’s solely justified.

Simply as so typically occurs with Jose Mourinho, issues are starting to unravel at a speedy tempo — solely it is occurring sooner than standard and at a extra dramatic velocity this time.

After a 2-1 defeat to West Ham on Sunday — their fifth loss in six league video games — left his crew in ninth place and 9 factors off the highest 4, Mourinho was left denying a disaster at Spurs.

“I do not know what you imply by disaster,” got here the Portuguese’s riposte to a reporter on the London Stadium.

“If disaster is frustration and unhappiness within the dressing room, I might say so as a result of no one is glad.”

Requested if Spurs’ poor outcomes had made Mourinho query his personal strategies, he replied: “No, in no way. In no way. Zero.

“As a result of typically the outcomes are the consequence of a number of conditions in soccer and mine and my teaching employees’s strategies are second to no one on this planet.”

It was the type of combating speak we have now come to count on from Mourinho.

The Particular One has by no means been one to take defeat mendacity down, however the successful behavior that earned him that nickname at Chelsea within the mid 2000s is rapidly eluding him. Mourinho’s profession trajectory now could be to see a really clear downward spiral, which fuels these critics who consider his managerial model is antiquated.

He hasn’t gained a league title since 2014/15 with Chelsea and solely picked up minor trophies throughout his time at United. And each his second stint at Stamford Bridge and his time at Previous Trafford led to full calamity.

One thing comparable is definitely across the nook at Tottenham, until one thing miraculous occurs.

Mourinho’s staunch military of supporters — of which there are numerous — are operating out of excuses. His cult of character is eroding away.

The Mourinho backers had been out in power in December 2018, nevertheless, when United relieved him of his duties with membership morale at an all-time low. Paul Pogba, Luke Shaw and others had been disenfranchised by the Portuguese, and the earlier summer season had seen an acrimonious row get away between administration and board over the signing of a centre-back.

Mourinho, who had lavished greater than £30million apiece on Eric Bailly and Victor Lindelof, was not given the funds to signal a 3rd central defender in three years. He was given ‘solely’ £70million by Ed Woodward to usher in Fred and Diogo Dalot, although his whole spend amounted to £362 million on 11 gamers in 5 home windows.

So there is not any marvel Mourinho’s present gripes at Tottenham — suggesting his taking part in squad will not be match for objective — sound so acquainted to United followers.

“I believe for a protracted, very long time, we have now issues within the crew that I can not resolve on my own as a coach,” he mentioned on Sunday, throwing shade at his gamers.

But he had beforehand claimed the Spurs squad he inherited from Mauricio Pochettino in November 2019 was among the many greatest he had ever taken over at a membership: “The standard within the squad excites me.”

Throw in quarrels with Dele Alli, Tanguy Ndombele and Gareth Bale at varied phases and you’ve got the archetypal Mourinho meltdown.

Manchester United made heavy climate of their 3-1 win over Newcastle, finally getting the job finished at Previous Trafford.

Marcus Rashford, Daniel James and Bruno Fernandes had been on the scoresheet as United got back to winning ways within the league. They’ve a Europa League second leg vs Actual Sociedad on Thursday.

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All the weather are current and proper: performances devoid of attacking fluency, tensions with the board and followers, disputes with gamers… they’re the elements that noticed Mourinho’s champion Chelsea groups collapse and proved his undoing at United, too.

The distinction in recent times is that Mourinho is now not successful the largest trophies to justify the fall-out. He’s solely a nasty end result away from turning into unemployable for elite golf equipment. The cycle is inevitable. Mourinho can not cease the rot anymore. 

So United will sit again and watch all of it unfold, protected within the information their choice to extinguish more and more poisonous and tumultuous regime has been justified.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer could not deliver the very best trophies to Manchester United, however he has introduced again the sunshine, constructing an encouraging mission along with his model of feel-good, enticing soccer.

Mourinho is summoning solely darkish clouds above Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and lots at Previous Trafford might have foreseen that.