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– Sanchez struggles –
A major investment was also made to bring Sanchez to the club in January on reportedly the most lucrative contract in Premier League history but he has been a huge disappointment so far.
“Sanchez for one, he just looks a shadow of the player he was,” said Ferdinand. “When he was at Arsenal he was the one everyone looked to for inspiration. Here, he just looks like a stranger in this team.”
The mounting evidence suggests it is Mourinho’s failure to harness the best from his attacking players that is to blame, rather than a clutch of stars going off the boil.
63′ – @Alexis_Sanchez looks to break through two Sevilla challenges. #MUFC #UCL pic.twitter.com/kEhg4leQcd
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) March 13, 2018
Despite the uncomfortable marriage between United’s much-vaunted attacking history and Mourinho’s cagey tactics, the club have backed their manager, rewarding him with a new contract until 2020 and he hinted that even more cash may be thrown at fixing United’s problems.
“Everything together (needs to improve), everybody spends money, not just us,” said Mourinho.
The added problem for Mourinho is that runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City are setting pulses racing and the likes of Liverpool and Tottenham also play an exciting brand of football.
In contrast, Mourinho has little to fall back on when his results-driven approach fails to deliver.
“They approach every game conservatively, some games they get away with,” said Scholes.
“The performance was very bad and they lost, as they rightly should do, but there are a lot of performances exactly the same and they win and it gets swept under the carpet.”
