5 things going wrong for Mourinho and Manchester United

Times have changed… Has Mourinho?

This is an extremely curious point. Since Mourinho broke onto the scene with his infamous touchline sprint at Old Trafford whilst managing Porto, he’s won it all and with ease at times.

Trophy, after trophy, after trophy spanning multiple countries. Teams built around an impossible to break down defence, a never say die attitude and a dressing room made to feel like the world was against them.

These were the foundations to Mournho’s success, but the times are changing.

The emergence of not only Pep Guardiola’s scintillating ‘Tiki-taka’ football, but the high pressured high paced game is more prominent now than it ever was.

Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino all employ this game to, at times, resounding success, while Jose is still employing the tactics that has worked so well for him over the last 12 to 13 years.

Nothing’s to say there’s anything wrong with this, and there’s many cases to say that this will still be a success.

But he’s struggled over the last year and a half. First with Chelsea and now with Manchester United, and while this new style of game is proving fruitful to plenty of other managers, Mourinho currently seems very stuck in his ways and that tactical nous we’re so used to seeing from him, appears to have temporarily gone missing.