[i][/i] Manchester united manager jose Mourinho has come under fire of late from within and outside the old trafford rank . What with result on the pitch not really cheering for the fans , though their business of it couldn't be any better , with the club's shares reaching an unprecedented high on the NYSE just this last month . But in the most often shortlived tenures of most top coaches in the top echeleons of football clubs , winning is all that can guarantee your stay on the job and 50 % win ratio with just four league matches into the new season rings alarm bells for the top hierachy of a megarich club like man. Utd , and the manager tends to feel the heat , especially if that manager's name is jose mourinho and he has to answer to a certain vice chairman that goes by the name ed . Woodward . Recall that there seeminly looks to be an unpubicised war between these two all summer with the former accusing the latter of not backing him enough in the transfer market as he ( mourinho ) looks to wrestle the premier league title from his rival manchester city , who just last may won the league with a nineteen ( 19 ) point gap to his closest opponent , the red devils after spending close to £450 million pounds over three transfer windows to do so . But just this past week , the red devils coach job appears to be on the line after a spineless defeat at home to tottenham hotspurs f.c with many predicting that the portuguese will be gone before december with zinedine zidane , the french legend and former real madrid coach being tipped heavily to take over in what is seen as a move by the old trafford hierachy to change the team's pattern of play and bring out the best in midfielder paul pogba , also a zidane's compatriots and a player said to be at loggerheads with his current coach . But in his characteristically calculated and on point response to questions about his travails at united and wether he fears his job may be on the line , the former chelsea, real madrid and Internazionale of milan coach speaking with italian newspaper La Republicca before the crunch game against Burnley , dismissed fears of him getting booted out of old trafford because of the financial strain breaking his united contract that still has some years to run will cost . "do you know how much it will cost for them to sack me " he asked the reporter in what some observers believe is a veiled dig at the man who could not get some of mourinho's first choice target for the club due to what he ( woodward ) sees as exorbitant price tag ! Ironically some hard core united fans have chosen to side with the special one , believing the club's top shots are just deliberately being tight with the purse strings instead of splashing out in the transfer market if they are going to compete with pep guardiola's man. City . Money they believe the club generated from tickets paid for by fans is not being reinvested into the squad and they have taken a stand on who they side with, with an airplane bearing a " specialist in failure , Ed Woodward out " flying over the turf moor ground ( bunley's home stadium ) before their team's match on sunday . Jose will later dedicate the 2-0 victory to the vice chairman , ostensibly in a show of support . Make of that what you will but it seems the week that was eventually turned out to be advantage mourinho .

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