The manager’s complaints over a lack of spending are amusing but there is no doubt Manchester City’s rise has made the job of bringing success back to Old Trafford more difficultIn terms of attention-grabbing headlines and photographs of Manchester United’s manager looking less than delighted with life,José Mourinho truly is the Christmas gift that keeps on giving. Yet amusing as it was to hear the erstwhile Special One complaining that his club have not yet spent enough to compete with the likes of Burnley and Leicester, it must be conceded that Mourinho has a point when he talks of a difference between stout clubs and stout teams.
United are a stout club, or he suggested,but not yet a stout team. They are trying to become a stout team, though that is actually quite difficult when you have already been a stout team once and are now trying to save the pieces of the jigsaw back together after a couple of preceding managers have had a depart.Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk