In December 2018 Mourinho was fired as Manchester United manager. The Portuguese, after two and a half years, left the club after winning a Europa League, a Community Shield and a League Cup, but without being able to lift the coveted Premier. Mourinho left behind a trail of situations that the one who was his assistant then has gone on to analyze Ricardo Formosinho at the English club. The atmosphere at United became rare and, without clearly saying the name, Formosinho slides the figure of Pogba as the trigger for the “atmosphere of tension” that was breathed in the squad.
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“I am not going to mention names, but we had many problems, one of them was the players who went on vacation normally and arrived as world champions … It was very difficult to live in this climate of tension,” Formosinho explains, pointing without saying it. to Paul Pogba, who had lifted the World Cup in July 2018 with France. The beginning of that season was the trigger for the dismissal of Mourinho. It should be said that with him, Pogba did not regain the best level shown in Italy in the ranks of Juventus.
In addition, Formosinho points out other causes. One was the loss of a reference like Ibra after two seasons with him. “In the last year we lost a great man and a leader of the dressing room: Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He was an irreplaceable reference. We really miss him a lot,” Formosinho said in Record. On the improvement of the team after the departure of Mourinho and his people, he draws his own conclusions. “At first, yes, it is normal as an immediate consequence of the change. The players understood that it was a breath of fresh air, they wanted to please the new coach, but it didn’t take much to observe that the problem was more complicated than changing the coach The truth is that the team was no better than the one we left there. And they still don’t win, “he says. Formosinho accompanied Mourinho last season at Tottenham before parting ways this summer.
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