Why Manchester United sacked Mourinho. 

   Manchester United have sacked manager Jose Mourinho after their

worst start to a season in almost 30 years, the club announced on
Tuesday.
The 55-year-old Portuguese’s last match in charge was the 3-1
defeat by Premier League league leaders Liverpool on Sunday
which left them 19 points behind their opponents.
Mourinho’s sacking comes just two-and-a-half years into his tenure
and three years and a day since Chelsea sacked him just months
after he had guided them to the title.

Former player Michael Carrick, now a member of the coaching
staff, is expected to take charge in an interim role but United said
a caretaker manager will be appointed until the end of the season.
The club’s worst start in the league since 1990 means even
Mourinho’s ambition of reaching the top four and a Champions
League qualification spot is in danger.
Despite United reaching the Champions League knockout stages —
they face an intimidating last-16 tie with Paris Saint-Germain — a
mix of the results, dressing-room discord and criticism of the
board’s transfer policy proved potent factors in the decision to
dismiss him.

A United source told AFP that Mourinho had been supported in his
efforts to sign players and described reports of player power at
the club as being key to the sacking as being wide of the mark.
According to British media reports, United will have to pay £22.5
million ($28 million) — as the club are still in the Champions League
— to sever the ties.

“Manchester United announces that manager Jose Mourinho has left
the club with immediate effect,” a club statement said.
“The club would like to thank Jose for his work during his time at
Manchester United and to wish him success in the future.
“A new caretaker manager will be appointed until the end of the
current season, while the club conducts a thorough recruitment
process for a new, full-time manager.”
Carrick is favoured for the caretaker role having become part of
the coaching staff this season.

In the longer term former Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has
been linked to the club and Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio
Pochettino could also be a name in the frame.
Mourinho’s reign had started well enough with the League Cup and
the Europa League trophies but neighbours Manchester City’s
dominance over them in the league has hurt.
The wound went even deeper for Mourinho as City are managed
by Pep Guardiola, who got the better of him when he managed
Barcelona and Mourinho was at Real Madrid.
However, despite his protestations to the contrary the United
board gave Mourinho plenty of money to compete.

Top-quality players such as Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku — who he
persuaded to come to United and not Chelsea for £75 million in
2017 — and Paul Pogba for a then world record fee of £89 million
in 2016 have floundered under his authoritarian stewardship.
Indeed it was his deteriorating relationship with World Cup-
winning midfielder Pogba — one of many to feel the lash of his
tongue in public — that symbolised the decline at the club under
him.
Mourinho questioned his attitude while the player hit back with
open criticism of the tactics, culminating in him kicking his heels on
the bench during the Liverpool debacle on Sunday.