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is Mourinho bad news for Manchester United's young stars?



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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