Former Celtic star Chris Sutton feels Jose Mourinho is failing to get the best out of a talented Manchester United squad and believes that the Portuguese needs a miracle to have his side challenging for the title this season.
While Manchester United are still just six points off league leaders Manchester City in the Premier League title race, the picture doesn’t look pretty for the Red Devils after suffering a 4-0 hammering at Chelsea on Sunday.
Manchester United have fallen behind the early runners in the league this season and many are questioning whether Mourinho still has it in him to inspire them to greater heights.
Sutton is in the camp that feels the Portuguese has lost his Midas touch and he believes Mourinho is underperforming with a talented squad at his disposal at Old Trafford.
He is unsure whether the Manchester United manager will ever recover his old powers and is not confident that he can turn the Red Devils into title contenders this season.
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The former Celtic man wrote in his column for Heat Street: “At Manchester United, the foundation of which is built on a certain style of quality football, he seems bereft of ideas.
“He has a talented squad at his disposal, yet increasingly other Premier League teams are fitter, sharper, easier on the eye and better to watch.
“Adverse results seem to have affected Mourinho and its fair to question if the manager will ever recover what he had. United fans are demanding answers to the many questions surrounding their side but it doesn’t seem like things will improve in the short-term.
“Never mind something special, Mourinho will have to perform a miracle on the pitch to transform Manchester United into Premier League title contenders.”
Mourinho and Manchester United do have an opportunity to answer their critics soon when they taken on Manchester City for a place in the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup on Wednesday at Old Trafford.
