Since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, Manchester United have torched stability, success, grace, class and dignity... and for what? Mediocrity
The inventory of everything they have gained includes a boat-load of mediocrity, an official global lubricant partner, a reputation for wages largesse that measures 9.5 on the Peter Ridsdale Scale and an exorbitantly rewarded non-playing Chilean who only seems interested in his dogs, which is apt because that's exactly where his career went the moment he arrived at Old Trafford. In that context, the self-immolating reign of Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford was a symptom of United's ills, not the cause.
Mourinho was on the down-slope of his career before Woodward appointed him, a man consumed by bitterness and resentments, a man who showed every sign of having fallen out of love with the game and the men who played it, a man whose playing style was outmoded and dour - but when Woodward, United's executive vice-chairman, chose Mourinho, he just saw a name.
He likes names. Big names sell things. They make money. They move merchandise. They sell tickets. Glory? Please. Don't be so naive. It's the profits, stupid. At United, they have taken the Glory Game and turned it into the Glazer Game. Only one currency matters and it's not trophies.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...lity-what.html
The inventory of everything they have gained includes a boat-load of mediocrity, an official global lubricant partner, a reputation for wages largesse that measures 9.5 on the Peter Ridsdale Scale and an exorbitantly rewarded non-playing Chilean who only seems interested in his dogs, which is apt because that's exactly where his career went the moment he arrived at Old Trafford. In that context, the self-immolating reign of Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford was a symptom of United's ills, not the cause.
Mourinho was on the down-slope of his career before Woodward appointed him, a man consumed by bitterness and resentments, a man who showed every sign of having fallen out of love with the game and the men who played it, a man whose playing style was outmoded and dour - but when Woodward, United's executive vice-chairman, chose Mourinho, he just saw a name.
He likes names. Big names sell things. They make money. They move merchandise. They sell tickets. Glory? Please. Don't be so naive. It's the profits, stupid. At United, they have taken the Glory Game and turned it into the Glazer Game. Only one currency matters and it's not trophies.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...lity-what.html
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