Mourinho is back in business
YOU have to give Jose Mourinho his due, he knows how to charm those who matter.
There is no other way to explain why Manchester United are already preparing to offer him a new deal.
David Moyes was sacked because he didn’t qualify for the Champions League, Louis van Gaal finished fifth and was jettisoned.
The last time I looked, United were sixth in the Premier League table and the last time I looked, sixth did not get you a slot in the Champions League.
Maybe Ed Woodward (with Mourinho above) and the United board have just found Jose to be a better commercial fit and maybe that is what really matters at Old Trafford.
TROY DEENEY has done extremely well, especially when you consider he had to rehabilitate himself after serving three months of a 10-month jail sentence for his part in a brawl less than five years ago.
Credit to Deeney (below), but what a shame he feels it necessary to remark on the “bottle” of respected rivals.
Aaron Ramsey is a pillar of his national team, has a couple of FA Cup winners’ medals, has been a decent servant to Arsenal and had to recover from a horrendous double leg fracture.
Ramsey might have made an instinctive error by turning his back on a Younes Kaboul free-kick and deflecting it into the net in the recent game against Watford.
But he deserves a lot more respect THERE is a lot riding on Sunderland’s home game against Southampton tomorrow. Not just three vital points but a holiday to New York City. David Moyes has got the Big Apple all booked up for a four-day bonding trip but Sam Allardyce had his beloved Dubai sorted for the Crystal Palace lads until they were hammered at home by Sunderland.
Presumably, if Moyes’s team gets stuffed by Southampton, they won’t have the front to go luxury to Manhattan.
These jaunts are just jollies, of course, but after Allardyce took Sunderland to Dubai last February, they lost only two of their remaining 12 Premier League matches.
If managers think they are useful, they should be useful regardless of one result – no matter how bad it looks to the beleaguered fan.