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Paul Scholes Comments on Jose Mourinho Before Liverpool vs. Manchester United
- Updated: October 17, 2016
Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes thinks the team is still struggling to form an identity under new manager Jose Mourinho.
Scholes provided his candid assessment of the new boss ahead of the crunch clash with Liverpool on Monday night; United are three points behind their great rivals going into the game after an inconsistent beginning to the Premier League season.
Speaking about his former side, Scholes accused the new boss of lacking ruthlessness in the way he sets the team up, per Simon Stone of BBC Sport:
He was not ruthless enough in the off-season.
There is so much confusion about who should play.
What I saw of Mourinho at Chelsea, he had 13 or 14 players who played every week. He never rested players even in the League Cup or whatever competition he was in.
With United it is still a settling-in period—it is going to take a bit of time for them to knit together and see what they are about.
Is there an identity to the team yet? I don’t think there is.
United certainly haven’t outlined a definitive style in the nascent stages of Mourinho’s tenure. While they possess so many attacking threats in Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba, Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Juan Mata, the Portuguese has yet to see the team thrive …
