- Aug 24, 2011
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I completely understand what you're saying as I agree that the deficiences of the squad are our biggest problem, by far. We're lacking in (at least) central midfield, central defense, and fullbacks. We haven't got squad players good enough to push the players in our first XI to be at their best. That's a recipe for mediocrity, and we're seeing it play out in front of our eyes.Why’s everyone blaming Mourinho????
He’s inherited the same disillusioned wastes of space that Poch had mid season and hasn’t had a full summer window to bring in his own players, get rid of the trash and drill a winning mentality into them.
This is on the players, they let down our best manager of 5 years in Poch and they’ve carried on the same way under Jose. They should be ashamed of themselves. They can’t pass, run, move, shoot... even our stalwarts like Kane look a shadow of their former self.
Come next season, if we’re still seeing Aurier, Davies, Sissoko and Winks week in week out then yes Jose needs to shoulder some of the blame but for now it’s on the players.
But Mourinho has to take some measure of blame as well. Newcastle just put four past this lot. They're absolutely shit. We've got players like Kane, Son, Bergwijn, Lo Celso, and Ndombele. We should very fucking well create a shot on target. The fact that we haven't done does fall upon the manager in some degree, even if what he's got to work with isn't good enough in a general sense.
Regardless, he's not a project manager and we've got a project on our hands. It's a total shambles.