Paul Scholes: Jose Mourinho has not been good enough for Manchester United
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ByEurosport
Updated 25/07/2018 at 08:16 GMT
Paul Scholes believes both Jose Mourinho's style of play and results would not be acceptable to Pep Guardiola if the City coach was Manchester United manager.
Paul Scholes believes Jose Mourinho's style of play or results would not be acceptable to Pep Guardiola if the Spaniard was Manchester United manager.
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And he believes the obvious lack of consistency can't be acceptable to Mourinho either if he wants to remain in the Old Trafford hotseat beyond this season.
Despite winning the Europa League and League Cup last year, Mourinho's side have underperformed in the Premier League, coming no closer to ending their five-year title drought with David Moyes and Louis van Gaal axed since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.
They finished sixth in 2017 and were 19 points adrift of Guardiola's Manchester City in second last season despite spending close to £300m over the past two seasons. They reached the FA Cup final in May, but produced a wretched performance in losing 1-0 to Chelsea in the final.
"He doesn't look happy to me, but he may be happy," said Scholes.
It's a team that grind out results rather than impress you, but that's probably what he's happy with.
"That's where he's been at his best over the years."
"The most important thing to him [Mourinho], I think, is results, he'll be judged on that.
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Jose Mourinho in America.
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If Guardiola was manager of Manchester United he would hate what he was seeing and it would be different.
Former England midfielder Scholes won 11 Premier League titles, two Champions Leagues, the Club World Cup, three FA Cups and two League Cups during Ferguson's glory days.
Scholes feels Mourinho must establish United as genuine title contenders with a brand of football that excites the fans.
"Last year was a disappointing year, you don't have any divine right to win a trophy, but the way they performed in the league wasn't really the standard required," said Scholes.
Every year that Manchester United don't win something it's a disaster and that will carry on until he tries and wins the league.
Scholes' latest attack on Mourinho follows former Old Trafford favourite Paul Parker's hard-hitting Eurosport blog when he questioned the Portuguese coach's ability to manager Paul Pogba.
"Mourinho’s comments about Pogba not having “given his best” for United and having a propensity to “lose focus” and “lose concentration” over the course of a season don’t make any sense," said Parker.
"If I came out and said what he said, they would question me and I would be criticised everywhere."
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