The ever outspoken Manchester United’s newly appointed manager Jose Mourinho is back with his well-known style of media bytes when said they are going to win this premier league season.
There is nothing wrong in being optimistic but if it is someone like Mourinho, we need to take his confidence with little ease since he is the one who had issued similar words when mentoring the Chelsea in the last season and he kept on his words despite losing in the field one after another which proved he is more of words than results. Although, everyone would accept he is one of the finest soccer minds we have in today soccer and since he is also the only hope for the Red Devils to bring back their glorious days they used to enjoy during Sir Alex Ferguson regime, fans are not sidelining his confidence altogether. Anyways, precisely it has been a long time passed by once ruling English club ManU won the English topflight as their best after Alex retirement has been a fourth place in the ranking that happened during the 2014-15 season, otherwise they seem to have ever been struggling in dealing with the performance pressure.
Talking about his plans for the upcoming English season and what is in his mind for the highly demotivated side, Mourinho said in his recent interview, “I want to be champion. To say before the season starts that the top four is the target? The top four is not the target. We want to play to be champions. If during the season we realise the points difference doesn’t allow us to fight for the title, we are going to establish a new title, and when you can’t be champion the next target is to finish top four. But day one, I don’t want to hide behind a bad season or no Champions League football to say we want to finish top four.”
Refusing to have been under any kind of pressure to deliver in the season ahead, he added, “There was no ultimatum. The message from the owners and Mr Woodward was: get your three years, do your work, improve the team and bring us back where we belong during a three-year period. My message was that I wanted to win the title in the first season. You need to rotate players. (It) is very, very difficult for the Premier League. We play on the Thursday, you travel a lot. Then the Premier League doesn’t make any favours.
“You play Thursday and then I don’t think they are going to play us Monday, they are going to play us Sunday, probably at 12 o’clock. For the Premier League it is the worst. It is much easier to be a Champions League team than that.”
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