"At the end of the day, when you're in a difficult situation, you have to step up and show your character. But some of the players in the dressing room were too friendly, or too weak." That was Mourinho's post-match assessment when he was reversed 4-3 after Roma's 3-1 lead over Juventus a week ago. But it can also be used to sum up the plot that happened when Manchester United led Villa 2-0 six days later, when the Red Devils conceded two goals in five minutes and were forced to draw 2-2.
After the match, Lonnick revealed that Martial refused to participate in the away game for the sake of transfer. The Manchester United demon king quickly retorted, insisting his loyalty to the club and the fans. Polo King has his own group of loyal fans, they are called "Martial Club", but in the eyes of more fans, the mask of the Frenchman has been peeled off.
Martial is the only Manchester United player to have been fined since his retirement, and it was Mourinho who did the trick to him. But the club ultimately chose to side with the players, with Martial and Pogba protected by the club, but doing so gave the Millennials the power to fight against the manager.
Many believed that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had improved the atmosphere within United, but it turned out to be a false boom. Under the calm water, countless undercurrents still exist, and only those who fall into the water, such as Soshuai and Lonnick, can feel the danger.
"Fuck him!" On the 2018 preseason trip to the United States, Martial insisted on returning to Paris to accompany his girlfriend Melanie da Cruz on the grounds that he was a "family man". Mourinho wants polo kings to return as soon as possible, but the Frenchman is overdue, Manchester United lost 4-1 to Liverpool, Mourinho fired on Manchester United's official television, and club staff tried to prevent the interview from airing.
United executives also told Mourinho that Martial is the "Pele" in the eyes of boss Joel Glazer and can never be sold, but the Agent of the French striker Felipe Lambole directly announced that the player wanted to leave. Mourinho can only punish Martial and remind Woodward that selling him at this time can also sell for a high price.
Now, 4 years later, United already know that what the madman is saying is true, and now the club wants to rent out Martial for £6 million, but can't find a buyer because his £250,000 weekly salary is too high. Incidentally, the contract between Anthony Martial and Manchester United was signed after Mourinho's dismissal.
Martial and his agent, Lambole, are very good at using the power of public opinion to put pressure on Manchester United, and when Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sanchez and Cavani joined, Martial expressed dissatisfaction. Among them, Mourinho handed Manchester United No. 9 to Ibrahimovic and let Martial wear a more legendary No. 11 shirt, but the French genius complained on social networking sites and felt that he was wronged. Four months after Sanchez's move to Manchester United, Lambole announced that Martial wanted a move.
After Edmund Edinson Edinson Cavani joined the club, Martial, who had scored 23 goals in the previous season and had been united for the first time. He was too weak, as Mourinho had concluded.
Mourinho chose to shoot and break up with Manchester United because he didn't want to be a good old man. "If you're alone, you don't have the support of the club, some players are fighting against the coach, then who's the good guy?" In an interview with the French newspaper Team in 2019, Mourinho said, "I don't plan to be a good person, because the so-called good people will become puppets after 3 months and will not be able to die well."
His successor, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, lasted longer than Mourinho had anticipated, not 3 months, but 3 years. After a 4-1 defeat to Watford, the Norwegian was out of class, and while packing his things in the office, someone asked the manager why he didn't openly mess with the players in the team, and the latter laughed bitterly.
In the 2017/18 season, Manchester United finished second in the Premier League, but trailed champions Manchester City by 19 points, while another sworn enemy, Liverpool, invested heavily in the introduction of iron guard Van Dijk and goalkeeper Alisson Baker. Manchester United's executive vice-president Ed Woodward's response is fraught with contradictions.
He gave Mourinho a new 3-year contract but did not bring in the players he wanted in the summer transfer window. That summer, United brought in Fred, but refused the manager's winger and centre-back reinforcements, and Sando avoided face-to-face communication with Mourinho in the pre-season in the United States on the pretext of staying in England to operate and transfer. This year, United spent only £73.2 million on transfer fees, a direct halving from the £150 million budget for the previous four years.
"The problem remains," Mourinho told the French newspaper Team at the time, "you can imagine, including players, club organisations and ambitions."
It is an indisputable fact that Mourinho made mistakes when he coached Manchester United, and his tough management has aroused the antipathy of most players. It was supposed to be an opportunity to detonate a hidden bomb in the dressing room, but The Club chose to continue to whitewash the peace.
At Old Trafford, fans never really boycotted Mourinho, they didn't boo the Portuguese maniacs, while both Louis van Gaal and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer were booed. The Theater of Dreams audience once sang a song: José (Mourinho) is right, the board is a piece of.
In September 2018, when United beat Burnley away, Mourinho waved his fist to applaud the away fans, then stepped over the billboard and handed the jacket to a jubilant 12-year-old fan. The other spectators reached out to touch Uncle Bird's hair and face. Even when Mourinho returned to Old Trafford as a Guest at Sky Sports after class, the fans chanted his name and the madman responded with a flying kiss.
The crowd targeting the Mourinho came from United executives, players and "fans" on social networking sites who tried to tell the world that hiring a madman was the worst choice in history. United were indeed wrong, because it was Mourinho and not Moyes who should be the successor of Verde, who was better at using an aging team to achieve the desired results.
It was a great time to win the Premier League title, if Manchester United hired Mourinho, Chelsea could not get him again, Wenger's Arsenal could only compete for four, Rodgers's Liverpool were not yet mature, Tottenham's manager was still Sherwood, and the only rival was Pellegrini's Manchester City.
By the time United actually brought in Mourinho three years later, the situation was different, With City having Guardiola, Liverpool having Klopp, Chelsea having Conte and Tottenham With Pochettino. In this case, Manchester United won 2 cup trophies, Premier League runners-up and 3 finals, which was not a success for Mourinho, but no other manager could replicate it in the post-Ferguson era.
Looking at Mourinho's reinforcements, Ibrahimov joined for free, scoring 28 goals in a single season, and no Manchester United player has been able to surpass this figure; Lindelof was initially criticized and now seems to be more stable than Maguire, who was introduced by the boss for 80 million pounds; and Diogu Dallow, who also took away the starting position of Wan Bisaka, who was introduced for 50 million pounds. There is also Scottish midfielder Scottish McTomine, who has also become the most reliable youth player in Manchester United.
A growing number of United fans felt that the club should have purged Martial and Pogba in accordance with Mourinho's request. But with the madman's lessons in the classroom, the replacement Ole Gunnar Solskjaer chose to give the players high salaries and power, and used weak management methods to achieve his so-called "cultural reset". At that time, Manchester United seemed to be a harmonious group, but they could only share the same hardships and hardships. When the team encounters difficulties, the weakness of the players is exposed.
Ironically, the most efficient moment of Anthony Martial's Manchester United career was achieved under Mourinho. Before Uncle Bird finished class, he scored 6 goals in 5 games. When Cavani joined Manchester United, Mourinho privately told close friends that Martial and Marcus Rashford would be killed. The two Manchester United talents have received numerous praises over the past two years, but the two have not yet surpassed the scoring record of Lukaku, who has been ridiculed by many, in Manchester United's single-season high of 27 goals.
After leaving Manchester United, Lukaku scored 93 goals in Inter, Chelsea and Belgium, while Anthony Martial scored 32 goals in the same period. Of these two, who deserves to be laughed at more?
In the 2018 Manchester United Champions League group stage against the youngsters of Bern, Marcus Rashford missed a single knife, and the mourinho on the sideline made an unbearable look, which was reprimanded by the two agent brothers of the Red Devil King. But seeing Last week's FA Cup, when Marcus Rashford's shot was saved, more Red Devils fans revealed the look of Mourinho.
Manchester United's sacking of Mourinho is not a problem, the problem is that the club has hired a friendly Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to try to create the illusion of old Trafford singing and dancing at a time when players generally need to be sharpened. They forget that United's true historical tradition is not an offensive style of play or a family club atmosphere, but a predatory spirit that cannot be killed in an air crash.