Boss hits new low in Hammer horror show
make things right again.
Instead, Marko Arnautovic, playing through the pain barrier, wrapped up the points with a third goal.
Playing United off the park after West Ham had stolen Chelsea’s 100 per cent record and then beaten Macclesfield 8-0
– it has been a very different week for Pellegrini.
Rewind just a fortnight and it was the Chilean in the midst of a crisis. Four defeats out of four, an unsettled dressing room full of new signings and too many lukewarm performances.
So what changed? Absolutely nothing, and that is the point, according to the former Manchester City boss.
“Maybe it’s very easy to say, ‘No, we must change’,” he said. “I was not afraid because we could not win the first four games. It’s easy to lose faith. Very easy.
“But always they heard me say exactly the same from the first day of pre-season – I was not going to change.” Bottom line, there is no such thing as a turnaround – it is about managing your players into believing in your vision.
Pellegrini has done that. Mourinho cannot. Yes, as Gary Neville has suggested, the ultimate problem may lie higher up the organisation.
But even if he is not the root cause of Old Trafford’s current ills, for £12m a year Mourinho is simply not doing his basic job of managing the team.
Which is why it should be time for him to now seek another one.
Whoever will have him.