Sorry, but that’s bullshit. The team and squad was a mess being propped up by two or three standout players. Outside of that - Hart, Clichy, Demichelis, Fernando, Mangala, Navas, Sagna. It’s weird how we’re revising the quality of these players given how hilarious many of them were at the time. The current United side would easily beat the City side of Pellegrini’s final two seasons.
They should have been better in 14/15 and 15/16 in the sense that they had the means to be, but the recruitment after the first PL title was as bad if not worse than United’s post-Ferguson.
In Aguero, Silva and (in theory) Kompany you already had an incredible core. IMO it’s like Fergie managing to turn around United’s second great team, and after a few fallow Djemba Djemba years form a third one with bits of the second remaining. The team Mourinho got was shit. All the great players from our last great team had left or were done for.
I’m that annoyed that i’m not doing anymore formation posts or saying who’s shit for the rest of the season.
Thank fuck i’m going out on saturday night so i can’t watch the cup game. Might go away for the weekend when the Derbys on.
If it ends up a liverpool v city champions league final the tele is going out the window.
Watching the highlights back, they got away with it last night, really. Sevilla could have easily added a third, fourth, fifth after their second. Not sure Mourinho would have recovered from that.
“Mourinho is starting to look like a washed-up rock star, one of those guys that goes around holiday hotels for pensioners playing old hits on an organ with the base and the percussion playing on a tape recorder.”
Or, as I suspect, lulling us into a false sense of security by playing the worst centre forward in top-flight football for two and a half hours and then bring the lad who can put the ball in the net on for half an hour.
Should stress again for those that enjoy this sort of thing, that I’m still very annoyed about this quote as well as the performance over the two legs.