Speaking at his press conference leading up to Liverpool’s match with Watford, Jurgen Klopp was asked if playing European football this season impacts Liverpool’s title chances.
“Is being out of Europe good? Ask United in January,” Klopp said.
Shots fired, but is he wrong? At this point in time what’s certain is that Manchester United have been down, and they haven’t given us much reason to think that their misery will end any time soon.
“If you want to be successful, you need European football,” Klopp said.
Did we finally break Mourinho? Even he recognizes that his team isn’t up to par:
Jose Mourinho bemoans #MUFC's slow start: "[It was like] they were playing a Champions League final and we were playing a summer friendly."
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) November 3, 2016
The situation is so bad that former player and manager Paul Scholes says the situation in Manchester has made him “depressed for years”. He went on to say that “Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, and City are all better teams than Man United.”
If this isn’t a wake up call, than I don’t know what is. So far this season, Mourinho has led his side to a worse start than both David Moyes and Louis van Gaal, and it doesn’t appear that it is turning around anytime soon. Despite spending more than most team’s entire transfer budget on midfielder Paul Pogba, who hasn’t played terrible, but also has not yet shown play any where close to his worth.
It’s safe to say that problems at Manchester United run deeper than the surface level, and they need to shake things up if they hope to return to the top in any reasonable time frame.
