Done.
Congratulations to United and to Jose. This was too long in the making.
I've never seen Mourinho look so humble. He is proud, it is the appointment he has dreamed of and longed for and lobbied for.
Mourinho will succeed, there is no doubt of that, he has succeeded everywhere. Sir Alex Ferguson said repeatedly in 2013, "Jose can manage anywhere," but what repelled United was the boorish behavior that seemed to be in Mourinho's DNA. That is not the United way and will not be tolerated. There were signs in his last championship year at Chelsea, in that match with Arsene Wenger who he had always beaten and always abused. Wenger had had enough and pushed Mourinho. Jose immediately backed off. Stood like an unoffending statue. It was supreme self control that we didn't think Mourinho had in him. But then, the abuse of Dr. Eva Carneiro and the old, embarrassing anti-United Jose was back. He lost his players, the season, his job.
Mourinho knows, one mother-fucking bullying of a female doctor, one whisper over the shoulder of Rafa Benitez or Pep Guardiola, one more insult of Arsene Wenger, a "voyeur," "a specialist in failure," and he will get the "hair dryer" treatment from Ferguson and will be summarily axed. United will not put up with being embarrassed even if they win. This was a tough enough call as it was.
So, dare I say it, I expect a different Jose Mourinho at United, one who will win big and do it the United way. I expect him to stay with this, his dream club, for longer than he has ever stayed at a club before, his record is something like three years and eight months. He will stay longer than that at United.
