Manchester United: Jose Mourinho saying it like it is ahead of FA Cup tie

Who will take the pitch on Saturday when Manchester United face Tottenham Hotspurs in the FA Cup semi final, after Jose openly admitted his disappointment with West Brom slip up?

If Jose Mourinho was a villain from your favourite comic book or movie, who would he be to you? To me, Jose takes shape as the Two-Face character from Batman. He just has the ability to be devilishly straight forward and evil – but at the same time drop the hammer of justice like Harvey Dent.

Many question marks have loomed over the Old Trafford side and their individual performances on the pitch. After Sunday’s West Brom embarrassment – it comes as no shocker that Jose is looking to change things around, with a trophy at stake.

Out the two semifinals taking place – the first is between Manchester United and Tottenham, and has been pegged as the toughest and most entertaining. It will be a really well-contested match knowing these two clubs only have the FA Cup to finish the season off with silverware.

This increases the importance of a result for both teams, with Jose spoilt for choice compared to Mauricio. This is due to him being able to pick from a healthy squad, whereas Spurs, have many injuries before Saturday.

In saying this, one can only see the Manchester manager making key changes after speaking out loud. If there’s one thing the Portuguese boss doesn’t do – it’s back down on his word.

Changes will be made by the United Manager

Jose has every right to talk out and let his players know a starting berth is not a 100 percent guaranteed for the regulars who looked complacent in their recent defeat. Hopefully, it gets a positive response and the players do their talking on the training pitch.

It will be the only way to convince a manage of Mourinho’s stubbornness, maybe Sunday was your off day. He will always stand by his word, but could use this headline as a smokescreen to help throw Tottenham off their preparations.

But if you are to look at what’s going on with United, you have to inspect their lack of assurance on the field. Many has to be labeled as failures, especially those who costed United the highest transfer fees in history. Costing so much in transfer fees – you’d think the silverware was streaming in, rapidly. 

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The real questions that needs to be asked?

Are the players the ones who must take the blame? Or should the manager take the blame for playing players out of position? Or, should all of the above share the blame in not being able to do what they paid for?

There’s a lot going on inside Old Trafford and Jose is at the start of all those things happening at the moment. If it continues like this, United have to ask themselves, does the weight of the team outweigh the importance and brilliance of the manager? Or, does the weight of the manager outweigh the expensiveness of the team?

It’s going to be an interesting buildup to their FA Cup match on Saturday. If nobody is announced injured before then – the team selection should raise a number of eyebrows around the world once out.