SLOW, BORING AND DATED Sharpe is latest legend to slam Jose’s style and says: The fans will lose patience

JOSE MOURINHO has been warned Manchester United fans may lose patience with him if he does not ditch his “boring” football.

United great Lee Sharpe starred at Old Trafford during the early part of Sir Alex Ferguson’s glorious reign and says supporters cannot stomach Mourinho’s pragmatic style.

The former swashbuckling leftwinger says Reds’ fans have been brought up on entertaining, attacking football – and he branded

United’s football under Mourinho as “dated.”

“For me it was a pretty disappointing season and not entertaining enough,” said the former England winger.

“There are clubs with certain identities and United have never been ‘a 1-0 team’ that sits back and rests on its laurels.

“You’ve got Manchester City under Pep Guardiola, and Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool playing some of the best football in the league and United are playing slow, pragmatic, boring and even dated football.

“Maybe it’s time Mourinho reassesses things tactically. He’s been one of the most successful managers in the game over 10-12 years – trophies everywhere he’s gone – so I can understand him saying, ‘I’m doing it my way.’

“But times have changed and if it doesn’t start well next season, he could find himself under pressure from fans.”

Sharpe, whose comments followed recent criticism from Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes (below) even claims United fans are jealous of the football Liverpool are playing under Klopp. “Who wouldn’t be?” he said. “Liverpool play on the front foot, they’re entertaining, exciting and score a load of goals.

“They play like we used to. They chase games. They’ll give a couple of results away and concede goals, but they’re attack-minded – that’s why they got to the Champions League Final.”

Mourinho can point to winning the Europa League and League Cup in 2017 and finishing second and reaching the FA Cup Final last season, but Sharpe claims they are way short of being able to challenge Manchester City.

“I’m sure Jose will say he’s chasing down City next year and wants to win the league, but clawing back that 19 points is just too much,” he said.

“They should be thinking about Tottenham and Liverpool.”

■Lee Sharpe was speaking at the Mcdonald’s & Lancashire FA Community Football Day in Astley. For more information about events this summer visit www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ communityfootballdays.