Some Manchester United fans have called for the club to mark the three-year anniversary of Jose Mourinho's Chelsea sacking by relieving him of his duties at Old Trafford and showing him the door.
Mourinho is a manager on the edge following a humilating 3-1 defeat to bitter rivals Liverpool - a result which put them 19 points behind the league leaders at the halfway point in the season.
Disgruntled United fans have had enough of the current situation, and took to social media to vent their fury and ask the club to follow Chelsea's actions before them and get rid of the Portuguese boss.
As the statistic of Mourinho's anniversary sacking started doing the rounds on Twitter, one fan responded: 'Can we make that happen again today? I'm hoping for a Christmas miracle that I don't think will happen.'
Another added: 'Time for history to repeat itself. Manchester United board wake up and do what needs to be done for our club.'
Prior to United's Anfield demise, they were defeated in midweek by Spanish opposition Valencia in the Champions League group stage - surrendering the opportunity to win the group as a result.
Following Monday's draw the Red Devils have been pitted against Paris Saint Germain in the last 16 round, though fans greeted this news with similar measures of pessimism.
United return to domestic action against newly promoted Cardiff City on Saturday evening, who have recently built up a streak of form following a poor start to the season.
Mourinho's side will see the fixture as a must-win if they are to retain hope of finishing the season in a Champions League position, as they currently sit eight points adrift of fifth-placed Arsenal.
Home ties against Huddersfield and Bournemouth then follow for United, taking them into the new year period.
Maina-jr
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mltfabian
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when luis van gaal got sacked Manchester hired Jose I knew there is nothing better goin' to come out of man u. Jose chose to go to man u to prove Chelsea hierarchy that he still no 1 in English football, he is adamant, stubborn and big headed, selfish and think he is best manager ever, but look at what Pep guardiola what the Spaniard always does to Jose, just compare their teams respectively pep always has upper hand, look at what klopp has done with average Liverpool team, he was runner's up UCL last season. we must not mention Carlos anceloti has achieved better than the Portuguese. Man u can delay waiting for a change improvement it will never happen, football has so changed morinho strAtegy will never work. he was given very big money when he arrived and nothing was achieved (EPL), he accuses both players for poor performance while hesuppose to look at pep and klopp what they do to change avarage players into super stars. Man u please sack him and let him go to his farm, and I don't think ther will be a team that wil be interested in him again, unless, lower sides. I am sooty Man u fans I have to be honest with you. it's poor man u has players what they need is someone to blend them in a consistent manner, man does not have first eleven till now. third season come on this is a joke
Toebdsu
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Nosense ,when jones is scoring goals to is own goal is José Mourinho who coach him to do so? When pogba is loosing the ball,wrong passes and then is laughing and walking on the pitch is josé? When José said before the league to start that " IF WE DON'T STRAIGHT OUR SQUARE IS GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT SEASON FOR US" did u head the message or not? When I'm managing your business and I tell the boss that we need to fix this and that for our business to be succeeded, and the boss ignored it ,when that business collapse is a manager's fault or the owner? Bcoz only the person who is always with those players training with them every day is José ,if he said the team is not good enough he need support why they can't give him what he want? The problem is not josé even you bring all the coaches in this world including sir Alex fugie noone can win cup with this mu current square. Only to fix this is to buy good players and rid player that they ere not good enough to player for a big team like mu .
lord_series
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I think this isn't just Mourinho's fault, the board has a hand in all this shitty disappointing results,ok let's assume the coach is not doing his job, why not sack him?,but they can coz they care all about the money they are gonna lose,and not about the fans that are hurting,it's understandable that you care about your money,but why would you extend contract of a coach that has bad reputation for 3rd seasons,then they didn't sign him alone,but they added a clause that includes giving mourinho a huge amount of money.....now I see why he coaches the team badly,because it's a win win for him,weather her wins or not, he's gonna get paid and if you try sacking him then he gets paid more.... now let's talk about the transfer market, where is the club scouts, a club of United stature,and the scouts can't bring in players that have good current and potential abilities,this is bad of United, and xhadan shakiri is who scored 2goals against us was bought for just 13million,toreirra of arsenal is cheeper than Fred. the club is supposed to sit and discuss with mourinho to sort their differences, you think a club where the manager and the board have a rift between them will succeed? I doubt. and other side Mr mourinho, the only coach that buys player just to bench them,the only Coach that buys a player not because he needs him but so that the opposition club wouldn't get the player, one of the worst coach I have ever known, he only opt in for old players he only buys already developed players, a coach who lives in his past and now seems a shadow of himself, a coach who refuses to evolve, a so stagnant on his old defensive tactics and Soo adamant he doesn't want to learn the new world of football, asking mourinho to coach a team is like using a Java phone in 2018 Soo retarded, don't quote me wrong he's good and can transform teams but he's just lazy,too lazy to work on young players to develop them and instead looking for older players to buy. I think a coach who has fights with almost all the players in his squad and then call them to play for him in next match is confuse, sometimes players needs to be pampered and supported to avoid loosing composure and confidence....