• United manager points to what he inherited at Old Trafford • Mourinho reads statistics from recent years to make his caseJosé Mourinho defended his Manchester United record in an extraordinary 12-minute monologue after being widely criticised in the wake of the Champions League defeat by Sevilla. “And what [I inherited] is the last time Manchester United won the Champions League, which didn’t happen a lot of times, was in 2008. “ We went out to a side that’s more successful than Manchester United in the last seven years in Europe. I used to call them idealists or idiots – they can be both.”Mourinho pointed to United’s Premier League record and that of Manchester City. “One day when I leave, the next Manchester United manager will find here Lukaku, Matic, of course De Gea from many years ago.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2018 15:02 UTC