Why sorry Jose Mourinho

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What`s the matter with Jose Mourinho? This is a matter that is impossible to ignore and which is extremely difficult to answer. Riddle here, Riddle there -;whether the Portuguese is really miserable, or is it just part of an acting game?
If you hear him talking or watching him ride down the road from California to Arizona and back to California, demonstrating an indifferent indifference to everything that has happened before Manchester United`s summer tour in the United States, you would have been forgiven if you had thoughtthat it`s not all right behind the scenes.
He did not seem to be particularly pleased to have to leave the training base in UCLA`s glamorous campus to play matches in Phoenix and Santa Clara;was jealous of the delay in the US visa waiver of Alexis Sanchez;is suppressed by the absence of a bunch of key players at this stage of the camp because of their commitment to their national teams at the World Cup in Russia.

He was not particularly impressed by the statement by Antoni Marciail`s agent that, despite United`s wish to extend the attacker`s contract by one year to June 2020, the young Frenchman still wants to leave because he does not want to play more for the Portuguese. This, coupled with the deliberate abandonment of the camp due to the birth of Marceal`s child, provoked a sharp response from Mourinho, who said he would not struggle to keep his miserable player and that if he wanted to leave, he only had to say it directly.
The Red Devil Manager is discouraged by the lack of progress in reinforcement of the new recruiting team. He is still waiting for a new Central Defender since the end of last season and is still amazed by the lack of urgency of the recruiting headquarters when the summer transfer window in England closes very soon;on 9 August.

Even when asked about something positive -to comment on Paul Pogba`s inspiring performance for France in the World Cup, Mourinho instead wished to emphasize that the club`s record buy has not yet shown a consistently high level for United because it lacks the same thirst and desire to play and prove.
Not for the first time, while heading for his third season at Old Trafford, Mourinho does not look and sound like a man who enjoys his job, and this inevitably causes one to wonder if the Portuguese is actually the right person for the job. It is yet to be seen whether the victory, even after penalties, against Los Angeles in Wednesday night will raise his spirit.

Yet this is the image Mourinho chooses to show. It is, according to those inside and around United`s camp, quite different from the public eye;excited, positive and motivating. His public image, we were told, is just a strategy to keep expectations lower than a team that ended last season by 19 points behind the Manchester City champion and holding the reins of the typical pre-season optimism instead of launching to the heavens. This game predicted by football betting rules also plays to put pressure on those around him at the club to bring him the desired new additions (Harry Maguay

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