Lewis94CFC

Spot On. The squad Mourinho put together isn't good enough any more. But he's happy now 'cos he can spend £89m on the likes of Pogba. 

I think that depends how you grew up. Way back when, I had loads of Arsenal mates. I even went away with Arsenal once, to Goodison, and never got touched. I would never have dreamed of going away with West Ham or Tottenham especially, my life would literally have been at risk. I'd probably have been safe enough going away with Cockney Reds but again, I wouldn't have dreamed of doing so, Cockney Reds as a breed being largely looked down on as the lowest of the low.
As for Mourinho, I thought it was a mistake to bring him back, not least because of the massive amount of baggage he brings with him. It might be nice, comforting even, to think of Jose Mourinho as one of our own. Truth is he never was. Jose Mourino is Jose Mourinho's. Harking back to the past again. I've got no more affection for Mourinho as manager of Man U than I did for Dave Sexton as manager of QPR. or of Man U come to that.
Just my opinion perhaps.. but despite his previous successes at the club, Mourinho bears a massive amount of responsibility for the posiition we currently find ourselves in. Earlier in this thread, someone wrote that a manager can't make players play badly. No but he can spread disruption, he can undermine player's confidence, and last season he spread disruption and undermined the confidence of any number of players. With a vengeance.
When the stories first broke of Mourinho's ambition to become manager of Man U, my opinion was that it was no more than Man U propaganda, bolstered no end by the Man U lovers in the media. Looking at last season I'm not so sure. It's so easy to blame the players - the same players who won the league at a canter the previous season - giving Mourinho a free pass. Not so. Almost from the word go, Mourinho was bang at it. and when he finally went it was a blessed relief. I can't no for  sure, but I suspect that had Mourinho stayed n charge for the entire season, we'd have been fighting a relegation battle, might even be playing in the Championship this season. And Mourinho would have gone on to manage Man U, blaming the players who's confidence he had undermined, blaming the board - who I have no doubt would have taken advice from Mourinho.
Go back to last pre-season. It was at Mourinho's behest that the players came back late. Pre-season was a disaster, we looked nowhere near ready at Wembley n the Charity Shield or for the first match of the season. Remember the fiasco caused by Mourinho by calling out the medical staff?
With regard to Chelsea FC, that Special One tag died a death long ago. Now he's history. The silverware won under Mourinho's management remains, but who can really know that another, less controversial, less contentious manager might have done even better. By for instance, not falling out with the owner.
Like I said, Jose Mourinho is not and never truly was one of ours. Jose Mourinho is Jose Mourinho's/ And now he's gone.
f**k him.
 

No, I credit him with that. Always have, always will. But that's going back to when he was good and he was ours. Before he lost it and became just another enemy.