Shearer on Mourinho’s sending off and Man Utd current performances

Despite an upturn in form, Shearer still sees major room for improvement: “Certainly in the last month they have played better, though probably still not to the standard he [Mourinho] wants.

“They haven’t been finishing teams off, they’ve had chances, I know [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic has scored goals, he scored two in the League Cup, [Anthony] Martial scored two also, so that might kickstart them into eventually finishing teams off, but their form cannot continue in the league.”

Shearer, the Premier League’s all-time leading scorer says there is still a lot of work to be done to the Red Devils: “He [Mourinho] will look at it and say to his guys, if you don’t score goals in the league, then I’ll have to do something about it in January, because there’s only so many times you can give people chances.”

After the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson and the turbulence that followed, United appear to finally have their man in Mourinho, but Shearer has warned it will take time: “Patience will be needed, Jose might not say it publicly, but I think he still feels there’s a lot of work that needs to be done, regarding surgery to that team”

“There’s still work to be done, to get them where they want to be, yes they are playing better, they had a good win in the EFL Cup, but they’re still a long way short of the standards United need”

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