Gary Neville is a very good pundit, in so much that his understanding of the game is excellent, and he’s won at the highest level – so his is an authoritative voice. This is where the praise gets parked this time around, as I don’t believe I’ve witnessed such train wreck of an interview in a long time.
Neville acknowledges he doesn’r like Mourinho, and that’s good, because his comments only makes sense when one understands the level of unrepentant bias involved. I cannot claim to be intimate with the inner workings of Manchester United Football Club, but I can share this with you. In the history of Tottenham Hotspur Football club, I will remember that it was Juande Ramos in the hot seat when we won the League Cup. We did not win it DESPITE him, and to infer anything along those lines would be petulant in the extreme.
According to Neville, Pochettino – who has won nothing anywhere – is a tough act to follow, and Mourinho is essentially a bum who needs to prove himself, as his stock devalued over the years. Mourinho has never coached anywhere and failed to win a trophy!
This degree of prejudice here is extraordinary, I’m astonished that The Sun’s Joshua Jones was willing to regurgitate these quotes without passing fair comment.
José Mourinho remains the only Man United manager to have any silverware since Sir Alex Ferguson retired*. No United coach has come close to his achievements indeed, they’ve all been fired for being abject failures. The current United gaffer is looking to be on the same trajectory as the rest of them!
Neville says that Mourinho ‘looks’ happy, but he will be judged in 6 months. These are not the words one would associate with anyone who either understands football or might claim to be an authority.
Our Portuguese Pulis is so far, has being playing an absolute blinder at Tottenham. He’s piece by piece removing the loser mentality from the club, and Lord only knows how, managed to get Daniel Levy to do his bidding in the transfer market.
Mourinho has disrupted a fundamentally unsuccessful club, and his next task is tip upside down those external to this club.
Hilarious that the gaffer has Neville clucking. Let’s finish this job we’ve started.
*Wild lie. Van Gaal won the FA Cup.