Having undermined his coach in the Summer with his comments on Man Utd's transfer activity, you'd have thought the Utd board would be well down the road to making an alternative appointment, but although there have been the odd report of links to other managers, it's largely quiet.
It makes you think that their CEO is not that media savvy. Really that should be an essential part of the job. At the time, I assumed that Woodward knew exactly what he was doing (because he quickly followed his transfer briefing with the Director of Football comment. Two comments which could be interpreted as a lack of confidence in the coach strongly suggested a board with a lack of confidence in their coach), but now it looks more like an error of judgement.
There's now a direct path to Champions League elimination>>>>>
There's now a double header in that group: Utd play Juve home and away and Valencia play Young Boys home and away. I'd still back Utd to go through because Valencia's forwards looked very weak and Valencia lost at home to Juve. The group will be decided by the games between Juve, Valencia and Utd with Young Boys conceivably losing every game.
If Utd go out in the group stages of the Champions League that will surely trigger Mourinho's dismissal. I don't know what the bookie's odds on them failing to qualify are but they've put themselves under some pressure now (as we did - the difference City are better and most would have confidence in City turning the group around).
