Jose is improving this Manchester United squad but it hasn't come easy
#3 Burning up the Manchester United faithful
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Jose rubbed the United faithful the wrong way after their Champions League exit
Manchester United took to Jose Mourinho like the Christians did to the Messiah and all was well in paradise until it wasn't. United fans were singing 'Jose's playing the way United should' until they weren't.
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On the back of their Champions League elimination, Jose Mourinho took perhaps the wrong route in trying to play down the occasion.
He said, “I’ve sat in this chair twice before in the Champions League, and I knock Man Utd out at home twice, with Porto – Man Utd out, and with Real Madrid – Man Utd out. So this is nothing new for this football club.”
Mourinho also went on to say that Sevilla are a better club in Europe for at least the past 7 years. Now, that's not something the Old Trafford faithful would have liked to hear.
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Romantics will say that the emotion was lost in translation and that what Jose probably meant is that the club has faced disappointments before and will come back stronger like it always has.
But most Manchester United fans did not fancy the gaffer talk about their team in such a graceless tone and that, my lads, is how the first Mourinho out brigade shored up at Manchester.
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Shambhu Ajith
Shambhu is a European and international football journalist at Sportskeeda who focuses on previews, listicles and news articles. An ardent Manchester United supporter since before his teenage years, he started following the Red Devils by age 10 watching MUTV on television. Shambhu is also a highly-revered rapper and a playback singer on Spotify, having a whopping 1 million monthly listeners.
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