This season's Champions League quarter-finals have been released, and unfortunately Manchester United have become spectators. The Red Devils are once again in the Champions League, and they may not get a ticket to the Champions League next season. After the match, britain's Manchester Evening News remembered the cry of Mourinho's Champions League exit 4 years ago.
The video of Mourinho's speech at that time is now once again circulating on social networking sites, but at that time, fans sneered at the Portuguese "madman" to find excuses, and now it is clear that he is telling the truth, but unfortunately Manchester United club did not accept the bitter medicine. Do you remember what Mourinho said at the time? He said: "Since the group stage was out in 2011/12, by the way, that year's grouping was almost the same as our opponents this season, after that, in 2013, Manchester United was out of the round of 16 at Old Trafford, when I was the manager of the opponent (Real Madrid); in 2014, the quarter-final was out; in 2015, I missed the European competition; in 2016, I returned to the Champions League but the group stage was out, relegated to the Europa League, and the second round of knockouts was out," he said.
Mourinho added: "In 2017, Manchester United participated in the Europa League and I led the team to win the championship and return to the Champions League. In 2018, he won the first place in the group with 15 points, losing at home in this knockout match. So in 7 years, there are 4 different managers, once missed the Champions League, twice out of the group stage, the best one is to reach the top 8. That's the football heritage I got. If you talk about the Premier League, the last time we won was in 2013."
Before Mourinho, his predecessor Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal also said that the Red Devils must get used to the Europa League, and it is not normal for a team to dominate the country's league for more than 20 years. A club needs to bury its head in hard work and not lie on the honor books of the past to be arrogant.
At that time, Manchester United fans, who were accustomed to seeing The Manchester United team leading the team to compete for the championship every year, decided that the two managers were purely making excuses for their poor performance. However, the subsequent movement of the club tells us that Mourinho and Van Gaal certainly have the factor of finding reasons for their poor performance, but what they say is also the truth.
Mourinho and Van Gaal are telling Manchester United that they should not think about continuing to operate according to the past model and compete for the title, success requires a long period of persistence and accumulation, in addition to finding the right manager, but also to persevere to the end, fully support the coach to create the right team.
Unfortunately, the Management of Manchester United, led by the owner Glazer family, is not the ultimate goal of the championship and is satisfied with the ideal income. Taking Mourinho as an example, after winning the Europa League and League Cup in the first season, Manchester United continued to support the manager in the summer of the following year, winning the Premier League and FA Cup runners-up, but because of the Champions League out and controversial remarks, Ed Woodward refused to bring reinforcements according to the madman's request, and the relationship between the two sides broke down, Uncle Bird handled the player relationship with an iron fist, the locker room broke down, and finally left the class.
Subsequently, Manchester United obeyed the words of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who was once a legendary player of the team, and paid a lot of money to attract reinforcements, but ignored the upper limit of the manager's ability, and finally the manager also ended up being fired. United have never stuck to a plan to the end, leaving a rich "legacy" for the manager, the team is always rebuilding, and every time it is halfway abandoned. To this day, Mourinho is still the last Manchester United manager to successfully win the title.
Manchester United are already empty of all four, rivals Liverpool have an unprecedented four Grand Slams, Manchester City can still compete for the treble, and even Chelsea have two cup games to work on. After this week, as long as Tottenham and West Ham do not draw against each other in this round, Manchester United will slide to 6th place in the Premier League in the table, away from the top four. If club managers don't recognize reality and continue to think they're "on the right path", the classic lines of three years, three years later, three years later, and three years later will continue to be repeated at Old Trafford.