" he is a world class player"
"he is the best in the world, no doubt"
"he says he wants to stay, we know this, his agent is happy with this"
"the board also want this"
sign the damn paper david
some other interesting quotes:
Jose is sanchez injured?
"why do you ask this, no he isnt. tonight Rashford plays 9, like you want, like you always ask. when sanchez or lukaku play you ask where is marcus? when marcus plays you want to know where sanchez is? You could be nice and say so jose you played rashford, and i can talk about it but you always want to talk about who isnt playing"
can you explain your reaction to his miss?
"i would welcome any critic to sit on the bench, the pressure, and not react like that. i think it is much more comfortable to go on many holidays to barbados, sit on a couch and touch screens and critic. I know no other manager would ever criticize another manager for showing emotion, it would be deja vu for them"
can you go deep in the cl or just happy to get into the 16?
"let me send a message to my lovers. i played this comp fourteen times and i qualified every time for 16. the two years i didnt play CL i won the EL. for my lovers of the stats, its an interesting point. to come second in this group is an achievement, not a big one, but one. there are better teams than us left, but i always say when a team gets to the quarter final anything can happen. in the last 16 there is still work to do. we are second so we will face Barca, Real, Bayern, the best teams in europe."
Jose Post Match
posted on 28/11/18
The Jose fan girls were are out in force tonight I see
posted on 28/11/18
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posted on 28/11/18
comment by Kung Fu Cantona 🙏🏼 🇵🇸 (U18082)
posted 7 hours, 34 minutes ago
"Without David's save, there would be no winning goal," added Mourinho. "He's the best goalkeeper in the world and if our ambitions are to be a big club, a winning club you need the best goalkeeper in the world.
"You also need some other best players [in their position] in the world, in this case we only have the best goalkeeper in the world."
Little dig at Pogba there me thinks...
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Why not have a dig? Another abysmal showing from a player who thinks he’s world class without backing it up. Don’t like jose’s veilled style of criticising players, if he’s not happy with pogba then take him aside and have a word, not call him out cryptically.
posted on 28/11/18
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 7 hours, 35 minutes ago
comment by Benji Veniamin (U19953)
posted 8 minutes ago
Rio
"he's deflecting away from the performances, why does he have to do that?"
hang on, dont we praise managers who protect their team when they havent been great? dont rio and scholes blast him when he blames the players?
these two are becoming so confused its funny.
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It's odd that they don't seem to see the double standards in their own rhetoric.
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Its odd that you two can't see the difference between honestly discussing a poor performance without deflecting... And publicly destroying players like Jose has been doing repeatedly
He could stand up and take responsibility for a poor performance rather than needing a scapegoat all the time
He complains about lack of intensity... Yet picks Matic and Fellaini, neither of whom are capable of playing high intensity games... The lack of movement and energy in lukaku has been done to death... How about taking off fred, the one midfielder last night who was trying to make things happen and showing a bit of drive?
Our main problems stem from the manager and his selections, his tactics... He should be able to address a poor performance and the reasons behind it without trying to dig out a young player... Thats what scholes etc are getting at
There's no double standards or hypocrisy... Just some people still blinded by the aura of jose and his bullshiiit and excuses
Benjis a fan girl without a doubt ... Dave, come on mate, you can surely see the difference
posted on 28/11/18
Jose is not wrong on the issue of the way the press (just like many ovine muppets on forums like this) deal with the inclusion/exclusion of rashford, lukaku, Sanchez (and martial).
Admittedly the press will generally print, broadcast, stream etc., any old guff to generate a response (profit). And they do like to 'big up' the young and denigrate the experienced for reasons completely unrelated to ability.
But on this issue they are actually negatively impacting on the club (maybe deliberately - a United decline is as media useful as success). It matters not who the coach is, objective observation from a knowledgeable position will lead a rational observer to conclude that rashford and martial are just not up to it. On the basis of ability alone.
On that basis they should not be selected and lukaku should, and that should remain the situation until (or if) better is available.
That forward line up yesterday was a cosmic joke. Maybe he did it to prove a point - and that point was conclusively made.
Play to the squads strengths, not what the press manipulate you into.
posted on 28/11/18
comment by IAmMe (U18491)
posted 2 minutes ago
Jose is not wrong on the issue of the way the press (just like many ovine muppets on forums like this) deal with the inclusion/exclusion of rashford, lukaku, Sanchez (and martial).
Admittedly the press will generally print, broadcast, stream etc., any old guff to generate a response (profit). And they do like to 'big up' the young and denigrate the experienced for reasons completely unrelated to ability.
But on this issue they are actually negatively impacting on the club (maybe deliberately - a United decline is as media useful as success). It matters not who the coach is, objective observation from a knowledgeable position will lead a rational observer to conclude that rashford and martial are just not up to it. On the basis of ability alone.
On that basis they should not be selected and lukaku should, and that should remain the situation until (or if) better is available.
That forward line up yesterday was a cosmic joke. Maybe he did it to prove a point - and that point was conclusively made.
Play to the squads strengths, not what the press manipulate you into.
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You are right. Lets play Lukaku up top. The man with zero goals in his last 11 games. The man with a worse goals to minutes ratio than Martial and Rashford, despite playing as a striker. The man who can't control a football. The man, who when he came on last night, changed the flow of the game to such an extent that we didn't get in behind the opponents defence again.
Play to the squads strength? We don't have anyone who can cross the ball and Lukaku thrives off crosses. You do talk some absolute rubbish you really do.
posted on 28/11/18
not what the press manipulate you into.
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If Mourinho is really that weak that he's allowing the press to dictate his selection then he should get booted immediately
His team selections are baffling and senseless
3 fast young players up front, 2 with good movement... With a midfield of Fellaini and Matic who can't thread a ball through... Fred we still don't have much of a clue about
Lukaku as a target man yet he can't control or hold the ball... No wingers and a deep lying midfield so he's starved of support or someone to challenge for a second ball
Mata, Fellaini, lukaku and matic... Then complain about lack of intensity
Nothing makes any sense... It's increasingly hit and hope... He's a charlatan
posted on 28/11/18
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 5 minutes ago
not what the press manipulate you into.
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If Mourinho is really that weak that he's allowing the press to dictate his selection then he should get booted immediately
His team selections are baffling and senseless
3 fast young players up front, 2 with good movement... With a midfield of Fellaini and Matic who can't thread a ball through... Fred we still don't have much of a clue about
Lukaku as a target man yet he can't control or hold the ball... No wingers and a deep lying midfield so he's starved of support or someone to challenge for a second ball
Mata, Fellaini, lukaku and matic... Then complain about lack of intensity
Nothing makes any sense... It's increasingly hit and hope... He's a charlatan
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Almost two and a half seasons gone and no plan at all. Just nothing. No sense of direction at all.
posted on 28/11/18
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 24 minutes ago
not what the press manipulate you into.
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If Mourinho is really that weak that he's allowing the press to dictate his selection then he should get booted immediately
His team selections are baffling and senseless
3 fast young players up front, 2 with good movement... With a midfield of Fellaini and Matic who can't thread a ball through... Fred we still don't have much of a clue about
Lukaku as a target man yet he can't control or hold the ball... No wingers and a deep lying midfield so he's starved of support or someone to challenge for a second ball
Mata, Fellaini, lukaku and matic... Then complain about lack of intensity
Nothing makes any sense... It's increasingly hit and hope... He's a charlatan
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Come on Shugs. I know people are frustrated - I am too, we all are - but this is just plain hyperbole.
On last night, you can’t criticize how the midfield performed in support of the three quick youngsters. Matic and Fred fed Rashford and Lingard very well whilst they were on the pitch together. Matic and Fred both played some lovely stuff over the top, early to feet and into the right hand channel to Rashford and Lingard got the ball early on the floor between the lines, like he wanted, throughout the first half.
The three forwards had twelve chances between them. Twelve. They were fed very nicely, and they were incredibly wasteful. Two of the twelve shots were on target.
The midfield performed very well yesterday. The forwards let us down.
And we did play with more intensity in the first half yesterday. It was a different approach with a more determined and higher press when the opposition had the ball in their half. That’s tactical, and was executed well by the players.
And on “hit and hope”, well it was on occasion after Pogba came on last night, but Matic, Mata and Pogba were still trying to pass the ball up the pitch as often. And after a second tactical switch in the dying minutes of the game. It was Plan C last night, and it actually worked.
The reality is that we shouldn’t have had to go to Plan C, because we created comfortably enough chances to put the game to bed in the first half.
posted on 28/11/18
The front 3 were awful last night. Rashfords build up play was decent but the end product was shocking which has been the case for over a yr now with him.
Martial I love but when he is bad he is really bad
Lingard I honestly don't see it. I've said it time and time again on here the lad should not be starting for Manchester United. He should be a squad player at very best, I personally wouldn't even have him as that. We needed creativity last night. Yes we had a number of shots but in reality we hardly created any good chances, best one was very lucky that it went to rashford after 4 mins and Fellaini volley which again was a mistake from them.
Not having it that Matic played well at all nor Fellaini. They just trudge around the pitch, fairly solid in the tackle but so fecking easy to play around. Numerous times young boys got in between our midfield and attack and but for a shocking final ball by them they could have got a result.
I just want to see someone like Perreira in that midfield. Something different, someone who is comfortable on the ball. Interchange Perreira and Herrera in that defensive mid position and give Fred a run of games alongside pogba. Something different from that tragic duo of Matic and Fellaini
As for Jose. He just needs to feck off. His fake pathetic reaction pretending he gives a damn at the end. Funny how he has only started reacting like this when he knows his job is in Jeapordy and some fans actually fall for it