Analysis: Waiting for Mourinho’s Fire in Manchester United

DBasia.news – Jose Mourinho’s name is identical to success. No wonder, almost all the clubs handled by him gained the success.

The Portuguese manager collected many trophies. From the Champions League, Europa League, and also the domestic competitions in English, Italy, and Spain.

Like King Midas in Greek mythology, Jose Mourinho always gives a golden touch to every team he handled. Let’s say FC Porto who won the Champions League, and Chelsea with the Premier League.

The achievement made Jose Mourinho acknowledged as Portugal’s best coach for the last 100 years. Mourinho also listed in UEFA’s 100 best coaches.

Consequently, Jose Mourinho is known as a narcissist manager. The 55-year-old coach mentioned himself “The Special One”.

Jose Mourinho’s excellence often compared to Argentina’s legendary coach, Helenio Herrera. Both are the controversial genius.

However, the quote said nothing is perfect. Jose Mourinho had dark defects everytime he enters the third season of a team.

The story started when Jose Mourinho handled Chelsea in their first period, 2004. At that time, Mourinho led The Blues dominated England in the debut season.

 

Manchester United

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In his first season, Jose Mourinho brought Chelsea winning the Premier League. It was the first title for The Blues in 50 years.

In the same season, Chelsea also won the FA Cup trophy. In his two beginning seasons, Jose Mourinho presented 6 titles to Stamford Bridge.

However, Jose Mourinho and Chelsea’s relationship was getting worse in the third season, 2006-2007. Both decided to separate at the beginning of 2007-2008.

Inter Milan became the lucky club, for not experiencing the third season of Jose Mourinho. The Portuguese manager moved to Real Madrid after giving the treble winner for Inter Milan in his second season.

With Real Madrid, Jose Mourinho revived the club who played poorly though they had Cristiano Ronaldo. The Special One presented the Copa del Rey title in his first season.

After winning the LaLiga back in 2011-2012, Jose Mourinho got slumped entering the third season of Real Madrid. Consequently, both decided to end the relationship at the end of the season.

The same thing happened when Jose Mourinho returned to Chelsea. For two initial seasons, they succeeded before falling to the 15th position in the third season and made him got fired.

Jose Mourinho’s third-season syndrome in Manchester United started to appear. Being examined, the former assistant of Sir Bobby Robson had the similar style as the former failures.

During the first season in Manchester United, Jose Mourinho recruited Paul Pogba from Juventus. The Red Devils paid 100 million euro (Rp1,6 trillion) to get Pogba back.

The result was satisfying. Manchester United won 3 titles throughout their first season. At that time, The Red Devils won the FA Cup, Community Shield, and Europa League.

After that, Jose Mourinho recruited Romelu Lukaku and Nemanja Matic in his second season. Though not achieving any trophy, Manchester United succeeded to finish as the runner-up of the 2017-2018 Premier League.

 

Paul Pogba

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Jose Mourinho’s failure pattern in Manchester United could be seen since the 2018 summer transfer market. Practically, The Red Devils just recruited Fred.

The other two recruits, Diogo Dalot and Lee Grant predicted to be the covers in Manchester United. Jose Mourinho complained about the transfer activity, many times.

With the current squad, also with the massive transfer progress of the other clubs, it would be difficult for Manchester United to win the Premier League trophy this season. Similarly, it would be difficult to defend the last season’s victory.

As a result, football experts in English predicted Jose Mourinho will be kicked from Manchester United this season. In fact, Mourinho just extended the contract until 2020.

Let’s see, would the third-season syndrome of Jose Mourinho repeated in Manchester United? Or would the Setubal coach uses all the limits and breaks his own poor record?