COLOGNE, Germany -- An hour or so after Manchester United had been dumped out of the Champions League by Sevilla in March 2018, Jose Mourinho sat down for his postmatch news conference at Old Trafford and was asked what at the club needed to change. "Everything," was Mourinho's curt response and, two-and-a-half years later, it has.
As United prepare to face Sevilla again, this time in the semifinals of the Europa League in Cologne on Sunday, Mourinho is long gone. His replacement, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has centred his work on changing a culture that turned toxic in the final months of Mourinho's reign.