Whilst it's usually more than the exception than the rule, it's hardly unknown for a new manager to come in and quickly transform a struggling team - see eg Hiddinck at Chelsea or Pearson at Leicester/Watford.

And it's one of the things which has made Mourinho's name. Of course he's been given a very poor hand to play, made worse by injuries etc. But the problem with Mourinho is not that he's not been getting results, or even improved performances.

It's that even after a clearout of disaffected/unwanted players like Rose, Eriksen, Wanyama etc, half the players he's kept and is picking are clearly not motivated. On Wednesday for example, at home to a poor Norwich team which surely has greater priorities than an FA Cup run, all of their players visibly wanted to win the game, whereas half the Spurs players were kinda hoping to do so (at best).

After 4 months in charge, that's clearly not acceptable. Worse, he keeps tinkering with his selections and formations from game to game, so that even some of the motivated players are confused. So that for all his bleating about injuries, when Spurs still had attacking talent like Dele, Bergwijn and Moura available, they still needed a LB to score from a free kick against a Norwich team which was missing Pukki, their only attacking player worth a damn. (This was a Norwich team which had come to WHL just a month ago in the PL and lost unluckily to a late winner, btw, but refused to be downhearted by that.)

Looking like it - also gave him the opportunity to play a demotivated Ndembele for a half, then launch a typically spiteful and counter-productive pop at him after the game.

Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: It’s a free shot v Leipzig - we probably need to score at least 2 goals as we can’t keep clean sheets. But with Jose you never know. He could go with the same line up!

A lot of people were claiming that Mourinho's "lost it" as a manager. But while I'm prepared to discount his spell at Man U (I mean, even van Gaal couldn't sort it), and am loathe to write him off after so short a spell at WHL, nonetheless I'm getting increasingly worried by the way he keeps chopping and changing his selections, formations and tactics from match-to-match, with seemingly little logic behind it.

I mean, he's not getting performances or results from it.