The Portuguese's insistence that he does not hold
back young players will be put to the test when he takes charge of a Red Devils
squad featuring several highly rated prospects
When Jose Mourinho speaks at his first press
conference as the new manager of Manchester United, he will almost certainly
talk at some length about his appreciation for the principles and traditions of
his new club and promise to uphold them.
Mourinho returned to Chelsea a seemingly changed man
in 2013, declaring himself “the happy one” following a spell at Real Madrid
during which the atmosphere at the club had been tense at best and quite often
poisonous. He spoke of staying at Stamford Bridge for 12 years - leaving just
enough time to coach at a World Cup before he retired - and claimed he would
have failed if the likes of Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Dominic Solanke did not go
on to become fully fledged England internationals.
The question that came to mind in response to these
vows was not so much whether or not Mourinho could deliver on them but how long
it would take for them to unravel. The public hostility was back before long,
Loftus-Cheek and Solanke’s prospects hardly changed and the Portuguese departed
some months before the three-year mark that usually signals his exit.
Mourinho will surely learn lessons from the way
things disintegrated at Chelsea, but by and large it would be unwise to expect
him to be anything other than the manager he has always been at United. On the
back of three miserable seasons since the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson, the
flaws will be tolerable for most at Old Trafford if he wins. For others -
including Eric Cantona and, seemingly, some members of the United board - Mourinho
is just not a fit.
One of the biggest concerns is his track record - or
lack thereof - of developing young players. Mourinho has always been very
defensive on this topic and some newspaper reports have claimed it bothered him
that he might be overlooked for the United job because of it. “Any time I have
had young players with the ability to become top players and play for the first
team, any time I had that, I picked them,” he once said. “I did it everywhere I
worked.”
The latest stick that is being used to beat him on
the youth development front is Kevin De Bruyne, who Mourinho sold to Wolfsburg
for approximately a third of what Manchester City paid to sign him two years
later. De Bruyne will be the star of Pep Guardiola’s team at the Etihad Stadium
and if the first Manchester derby of the season does not go Mourinho’s way the
headlines will write themselves.
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