5 things Mourinho has failed at since becoming Manchester United manager

#1 Mourinho’s transfer record at United has been abysmal

Lindelof has been one of Mourinho's failures

There should be no sugar coating it; his transfer record at United has been below average (perhaps terrible would be a better adjective to describe it). Since he joined in 2016, he has spent £388.89m on new talent but a look at his buys would show just how badly he has done.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Pogba, Romelu Lukaku, Nemanja Matic, Victor Lindelof, Eric Bailly are some of the big name purchases he has made and with the exception of Lukaku, it is difficult to make a case that any of them has been a success.

Lindelof has looked like a lost boy making gaffe after gaffe since he joined for £31.5m from Benfica last season. Mkhitaryan was so bad and unrecognizable from his Borussia Dortmund days that it seemed he had been taken over by an alien parasite that sucked away his talent leaving a hollow shell in its place.

The biggest accusation that has been leveled against Mourinho will be that there doesn’t seem to be a plan/coherence behind his transfer policy. Alexis Sanchez was bought from Arsenal without an idea of what he was going to add to the team and with every passing game, the decision to steal him from Guardiola’s clutches begins to look more stupid.

Pogba has done nothing close to what he was doing at Juventus while Chelsea’s eagerness to get rid of Matic looks even more inspired. It is even more galling to note that the better performers; David de Gea, Valencia and the likes were players he inherited.

A decision will probably have to made about Mourinho’s future soon, but there can be no sugarcoating it: it has not been a success.