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in March.

I personally hope he goes out on a high. He was a brilliant manager.

http://global.espn.com/football/club/manchester-united/360/blog/post/3459151/former-manchester-united-full-back-rafael-da-silva-talks-to-espn-fc Should have never been sold.

3 league titles over the course of 22 seasons is pretty shit though.

Harry Kane claimed Herrera's goal..

I would sack Mourinho after the last game of the season, but that won’t happen. He will be in charge next season, and Woodward is to going to trust him with another €150-200 million to be spent on recruiting players. His track record in the transfer market isn’t very good. Has Pogba been worth his fee? Nope. Was Lindelöf a pointless signing? Yes. Bailly? A good player with potential, but remains raw and very injury prone. Woodward is a brave man. Either next season will be a great successs or a complete failure. I don’t think there’ll be a middle ground if we don’t win the title or Championd League, meaning Mourinho leaves surrounded by controversy. For the club’s sake, we need it to be a successful one. Especially if we don’t win The FA Cup this season. But I don’t have any faith in the club at the moment. Not the manager, nor Woodward’s vision in terms of granting some of these recent signings. Looking forward to Fosu-Mensah, Tuanzebe, Gomes and Chong joining the squad on the pre-season tour. We should have quite a depleted squad this pre-season due to The World Cup. Maybe some of these lads will stake a claim for next season and get me excited by August.

Atmosphere was great in the United end, from the first minute evevryone around us were on their feet shouting and singing their heads off. The many pre-match piss up joints around Wembley helped I think everyone was well up for this. Players and fans turned up 100%. More of the same for the final please.

Lovely goal. Great by Pogba and that header from Alexis reminded me of Messi's goal against us in the CL Final in Rome.

I have the ingredients to make great food, I can't cook for shit though, and the dishes are usually awful. Ravel Morrison had the qualities to be a great player too.

Hasn't this stat been busted in the past? Half of Pogba's assist have been screamers (Ex - Martial vs Stoke) and goals from set pieces. Maybe not half, but the point is still valid. He has scored 4 goals in the league, of which 2 were against City in game week 33 after the title was already lost. He didn't actually show up when it was required, except at Emirates away. KDB has been City's engine this season, even in their 4-3 defeat at Anfield in the league, he was the only one constantly winning balls and creating chances. Ask this guy to come back when Pogba does that. Until then the stats mean nothing. I'm not taking away anything from Pogba's talent though, I think half the reason he's shit is because of Mourinho but the other is definitely on him. He may be as good as De Bruyne in terms of talent, but I don't think he can be as effective with his mentality.

Very good once again. Needs to ride tackles better, as he has a habit of winning the ball but not being strong enough to see the the tackle through. Basically created the opening goal.

Would be an Irony if Mourinho got sacked in the exact same fashion we sacked Van Gaal.

If you left the forum, you wouldn't be missed 😢

Would be on for the quadruple had this cunt shown up for the first 30 odd games. Still love him.

He changed English football for the better. He introduced innovations in fitness, training, tactics, and recruitment that turned Arsenal almost immediately into a well run club. It's unfortunate, but inevitable, that other teams would catch up to his innovations, but for the few years when they were genuinely revolutionary he leveraged those into three league titles, one undefeated, playing outstanding football along the way. Once the Abramovich money came in, he turned his attention to ensuring Arsenal's future as a competitive, if not regularly challenging, team. Whoever comes in afterward will have a solid financial base, a fantastic modern stadium, first class training facilities, a good youth system, and an excellent scouting network. They'll be very, very grateful for Wenger's work. The Europa League is something of a consolation prize, but it would be nice for him to finish on a high.

At the moment I’d go as far as saying Ryan Sessegnon should be our number one target. Kid is unbelievable.

Wenger was a genius. Only an idiot would look purely on Wenger's trophy haul alone. Went an entire season unbeaten in the league. He built the stadium, integrated an phenomenal youth system, change the way scouting networks in the country and how they worked, introduced levels of professional never seen before. He has basically left the club in one of the strongest positions worldwide with his frugal nature and caring for the club. The man should be applauded and recognised as a genius....which in this incidences isn't too strong a word. One of the games great managers and it's been a pleasure to watch him.

Indeed. Keano would have played Yorkie.

It means he’s represented by Jay-Z’s sports agency who look after a load of American sports stars. This probably means that he binned Raiola.

One of the most likeable United players. Fuck van Gaal.

When he does something good, it's exaggerated out of all proportion..he's mostly crap, not worth half the money he cost..and his silly hairdos are getting on my tits now. Oh yeah, that daft handball on sunday..stop fucking about you nobhead!

From what I saw it was a pathetic performance. Our issue at full back really hurts us in games like this IMO. Having an inverted full back (Young) nullifies any attack down the left as he will cut inside; as will Martial/Rashford/Sanchez. Then Valencia on the right always cuts back, rarely makes overlapping runs to stretch the play and his final ball is usually terrible. So we end up playing within the width of the penalty area, taking too many touches, it's slow, laborious, pedantic play. We play our best when we play on the front foot, zip the ball around, getting runners beyond the ball. The attitude seemed to be 'well we'll get a goal soon no need to worry', then all of a sudden they're trying when we're a goal down. Too little, too late I'm afraid. There was one point in the 2nd half when Martial was expecting a ball, was caught out by Rodriguez, then half-heartedly jogs back to 'try' and get the ball back. Where's the professional pride?

Well, at least we won the stopped-City-from-winning-the-Premiership-a-week-ago league.... Fluctuating performances like last weekend's contrasted with today is a natural result of having no coherence, identity, or philosophy in attacking play. The phrase 'a collection of individuals' has never been more apt for a side than this United team. The team are clearly coached on how to get organised off the ball (although even that skill has been seemingly lost in the past couple of weeks), but I am always left with the impression that they're just told to get on the pitch and figure something out between themselves when going forwards. For all the rubbish we dished out under LvG, at the very least I knew to expect it to be rubbish - right now, I genuinely don't know what's about to turn up on the next match day. Two steps forward, one step back. I'm not sure spunking another £200m on attacking players will really rectify this. Only the truly, truly elite forwards can make things happen on their own when all else around them is shit. One thing that was so painfully obvious today was the crippling lack of width our players offer. Never more pronounced than when both Sanchez and Mata are on the field. Other big teams usually have just the one player who cuts inside, while another stays wide to stretch the opposition - and if not, it is compensated for with fullbacks who can provide the same effect. While both Young and Valencia do get forward, it is largely ineffectual. Valencia is the one who is always free with acres of space on his side, but only does something other than pass the ball backwards into the centre of the field about once in every 200 forays forward. Both wingbacks need to be our top priority this summer.

Ahahahaha That's when I said yesterday that he's super dirty. Lovely to see though. You have to do all those and more if you can.

Herrera channelling is inner Keane today. Awesome.

Alexis Sanchez arrived this evening. He was everywhere, scored the leveller and set Ander up for the winner, plus he was kicked from pillar to post. Want Chelsea in the Final, settle the score from 2007.

Southampton in the final please for some 1976 revenge.

Valencia needs to join Old Yeller. Son is getting in behind way too much. Fairly even half overall. Let’s bury Poch the Espanyol cunt.

“Gav is a silly cunt but means well” - O on gav81

My greatest memory off Arsene, the Invincibles. .and getting sent too the stands at Old Trafford, seems like the other day..with arms spread out ala cruciferous.

A sad day for English football. Here is a man who changed football in England forever. A revolutionary, a man full of principal and one of the best managers ever. Regardless of the twilight of his tenure, he was bloody brilliant.

First of all, it's Pereira. Second of all, no way similar types of players.

Better than Darmian

Mourinho wasn't the right man for the club before we were even thinking of hiring him. Even if he won the league, he wouldn't be 'right' in the sense of how a United manager should play. Had City not done what they did this season we'd have probably won the league, which is usually followed by the inevitable implosion. I'm sure we'll spend money this summer and it'll just contribute to more pressure on Mou if things don't go our way next season. At this stage he's more likely to get sacked than for us to win the league.

Yeah I don't want him put off joining us by seeing first hand what a mess we're in.

We've progressed in terms of league position and we've put in some decent performances. But then we've stagnated when it comes dealing with weaker teams, we should be putting the likes of West Brom and Huddersfield to the sword. Also our approach to some of the games have been so negative, Liverpool away, Sevilla in Europe, West Brom at the weekend, it must be a combination of the manager and the players not fully believing in what they're doing. It's frustrating because on paper we could be great to watch but we've hardly done ourselves justice IMO

I just watched his press conference from yesterday...'I know how to win'...'I've won this i've won that blah blah blah'...fucker talking as though the performance was absolutely nothing to do with him. He does tend to throw players under the bus..fortunately for the players, it's often parked.

oh the irony of this thread's title

I trust the infallible ability of Mourinho to shift blame and drive a wedge through the club. Even after West Brom he was blowing his own trumpet about how he's won league titles so it must all be the attitude of the players' at fault. He completely absolves responsibility for the fact it's his job to get the best from the players. Jose, if your players aren't performing then you aren't performing.

Eight consecutive FA Cup semi-final defeats for Spurs. LOL.

When you say before Semi-final in FA cup that you don't need to win cup to take the next step you don't deserve to progress. Looking at you now Pottenchino.

Best and worst of these two all over this game.

This'll be a routine 2-0 win for us. Lads, its Tottenham.

I really will always have a lot of appreciation for the man. The game evolved a bit too much, and he was not in the situation to compete with some of the teams in England anymore.

Great play all around. Well worked. Toss up between Pogba and Herrera for MotM. Jones has been quietly excellent also. Hopefully we get a 3rd goal.

Unless he balls out, but if he can't do it as part of a middle 3 against a comfortably midtable Bournemouth then he deserves to be benched for the weekend anyway

LOL

I think the biggest issue is that he doesn't seem bothered to work most of the time, and we cannot afford luxury players who aren't performing. As I've said elsewhere, it's another thing entirely if we were seeing his best, but he's been a shadow of the phenom we saw at Juve and for France. Personally he needs to either shape up, or ship out.