Mourinho has never liked the flair players, his game is built around strangling teams rather than playing them off the park with flowing football.
Perriera for example will end up leaving as he simply isnt encouraged or allowed to show his abilities, remember that amazing goal at the u20 WC at NHS?
Mourinho knocked the flair out of Joe Cole and reduced him to a hard working box to box runner.
The amusing thing is that before Mourinho was appointed the big Utd forums all had poll ratings of 80% wanting him because trophies were more important than style, currently those big forums polls have all reversed that figure.
The worst thing for me is having to admit that Liverpool, City, Arsenal and Chelsea are more exciting to watch, actually virtually all other sides are more exciting to watch.
Bring back the swashbuckling approach, trophies will follow. Strangling teams just kills everyone.
Completely agree on all counts.
The United forums are infuriating. During his tenure, I have allowed myself to get extremely hopeful regarding Mourinho, but I'm happy to say that before we signed him I was dead set against it. I think we need a United manager more than anything else. But you mention names like Nicki Butt and a certain section of United fans laugh you out the door. Even though Butt has a very similar (but not exact) career trajectory as the likes of Pep did.