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Who can claim to be the better Manchester United manager, Erik ten Hag or Jose Mourinho?

Ten Hag has taken charge of 126 United games, whereas Mourinho was at the helm for 144.

Mourinho oversaw 84 victories, giving him a win percentage of 58%. Ten Hag, with 72 wins, currently sits on 57%.

Ten Hag's United have already lost more games (35) than Mourinho's did (29).

The 'special one' won the Europa League and League Cup during his first season at Old Trafford, but the following year he could only take United to second place in the Premier League and runners-up in the FA Cup.

United won the League Cup in Ten Hag's first season and reached the FA Cup final, before winning it in his second campaign.

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Jose Mourinho has faced Manchester United 24 times during his managerial career, winning 10, drawing nine and losing five of those meetings.

Mourinho's first visit to Old Trafford ended with his infamous touchline celebration after his Porto side scored a late equaliser to knock United out of the Champions League last-16.

He returned to Old Trafford with Tottenham a year after he was sacked by United, but a Marcus Rashford double condemned him to a 2-1 defeat.

The 'special one' certainly got his revenge in October 2020 when Tottenham thrashed United 6-1, his record win against the Red Devils.

Mourinho's last meeting with United came in April 2021 when Tottenham suffered a 3-1 home defeat. He was sacked eight days later.

The Portuguese coach also took on United while in charge of Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, but not Roma.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter in Istanbul

Twenty minutes with Jose Mourinho in a packed room at Fenerbahce's training ground in Istanbul on Wednesday reminded everyone present of his magnetism.

From two spells at Chelsea to one at Tottenham, for good and bad, he was impossible to ignore. His ability to attract attention remains almost unmatched.

A Europa League meeting with Manchester United on Thursday at the cauldron that is the Sukru Saracoglu stadium pits him against his second Premier League club, where the desperation for success was at its greatest.

Mourinho left United almost six years ago. But while he is gone, he is certainly not forgotten.

Read the full piece.

Manchester United will be reunited with former manager Jose Mourinho later when they face Fenerbahce in the Europa League.

Mourinho took charge at Old Trafford in 2016 and ended his first season by winning the Europa League. He guided United to a second place finish in the Premier League the following season, before he was sacked in December 2018 after starting the 2018-19 campaign with just seven wins in 17 league games.

After spells with Tottenham Hotspur and Roma, Mourinho was appointed Fenerbahce manager in June.

With United still looking for their first win in the competition and Erik ten Hag under increasing pressure, everything is set up perfectly for Mourinho to play the pantomine villain.

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Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter in Istanbul

Former Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has cheekily claimed he is not giving up hope of earning a title-winning bonus from 2018 because of Manchester City's ongoing legal case with the Premier League.

United finished second to City in the 2017-18 season, which was Mourinho's final full campaign in charge at Old Trafford.

City, who have since won four consecutive league titles, have been accused of breaking the Premier League's financial rules between 2009 and 2018.

City deny the 115 charges and expect an outcome from the case by early 2025.

Should the club be found guilty, they could be stripped of silverware won during the period concerned.

Mourinho was asked about his old club before his current team Fenerbahce’s Europa League encounter with United in Istanbul on Thursday.

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Jose Mourinho has been speaking about his time at Manchester United, specifically the 2017/18 season and we will come on to those comments momentarily.

But with Erik ten Hag's current run at the club, would fans want Mourinho back in charge? Let us know using the information above.

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Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler says Lewis Dunk "really identifies himself by the values of the club" so he is "very happy" to have the defender as his captain.

Dunk, who was part of the club's youth system, is expected to make his 250th Premier League appearance against Wolves on Saturday, having been part of the Seagulls rise from League One.

"He is so experienced and he sees this place as a family," said Hurzeler. "He wants to chill with the kit man and chef and spend time here. He really identifies himself by the values of the club.

"He is my captain and one of my most important players.

"He knows the club and their history and values, so he has all the knowledge which is good when I am new here. I can learn a lot from him.

"Being my captain is about having trust to exchange opinions. It doesn’t come overnight. It is like a relationship with a girl - it doesn’t come on a first or second date but with time it does. It comes by making memories and earning respect.

"But I am very happy that he is my captain."

Brighton & Hove Albion

Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler confirmed Danny Welbeck hit a nerve in his back against Newcastle last weekend and it "was very painful and still is" for the striker.

He said "it is still too early" to confirm whether Welbeck is available for Saturday's game and he will train today before a decision is made.

"Our medical team and physios are working every hour with him to make him fit for the game. Hopefully everything will be good." Hurzeler added.

Meanwhile, Solly March has returned to training, Joao Pedro is close and winger Yankuba Minteh, who has "a small muscle injury," is being assessed "day by day". Adam Webster is expected to be out for another two to three weeks but Hurzeler said his "injury is not as bad as we expected it to be".

Despite the long injury list, Hurzeler said he "will not take any risks" at this point of the season with bringing injured players back quickly.

This has seriously divided you all today... One of the best ever? A scuff?!

Peter: A question for Stephen. Everyone was begging for tech to help so we got VAR. Now everyone wants to get rid of it! What's the answer?

Stephen: The introduction of VAR has split opinion right down the middle. There was a poll made last season and people wanted it to be kept in but still felt there needed to be big improvements in it. I'm exactly the same.

The issue we still get is if it's a subjective decision. If you put 100 people in a room, you might get 70 people go one way and 30 the other on a certain decision. Then you might get 50-50, then you might get 90-10. It's just opinions about how things are seen, so you're still going to get controversy around decisions because we all see the game in a different way.

What the Premier League have tried to do this season is make sure that the referee's decision on the field is the final one, unless they've blatantly missed something, which they have done. There are still times where they've messed up a little but those times have been fewer this season. I think better decisions have been made across the board.

I still feel that ex-players should be brought into the room, into the VAR booth, because they see the game in a different way, they know about dynamic, football movements and what players are trying to achieve - to make a cynical foul, a tactical foul, or whether they're trying to buy something and go down in a certain position. I just think that if we can bring that together a bit more, that'll be better for the game as well.

It is such a difficult one because people will say that players have affiliations with certain clubs but I don't think that comes into it because you're then questioning the integrity of that person. Once they've got the job and their job's on the line, if they start making poor decisions, they wouldn't last.

England take on Germany on Friday but there are two stars that will not be a part of the game because of injury.

Brighton's Fran Kirby and Arsenal's Lotte Wubben-Moy have been ruled out through minor injury and concussion respectively.

Lauren James has already withdrawn from the camp with injury.

We have covered a lot of ground already today, including showing you all of the goals from the Champions League, so let's have a recap of the stories so far.

• Manchester City beat Slavia Prague 5-0, including aerobatic goal from Erling Haaland
• Liverpool maintain good start under Arne Slot
• Phil Neville under pressure in MLS
• Stephen Warnock Q&A

Warnock's Q&A will continue with more of his answers coming up. We will also see what Brighton's Fabian Hurzeler and Everton's Sean Dyche have been saying before this weekend's Premier League action.

We will also be building up to tonight's European action, including some interesting quotes from Jose Mourinho.

But first, there are some Lionesses injuries to report.

Kasim: Who do you think will win this seasons Champions League and who do you think the underdogs are?

Stephen: I mentioned Inter Milan earlier but I think one of the other underdogs has to be Bayer Leverkusen, if you can call them an underdog because they're the Bundesliga champions. They also got to last season's Europa League final so their pedigree's high, but can they now do it in the Champions League and replicate what they did last season in the Bundesliga?

There's more pressure on them, they're more watched, but like Inter, they've also had a good start, with seven points from three games. I think what everyone's seeing with Xabi Alonso's team is that they're very well organised, they score goals, they've got an incredible mentality when they go behind, but they've got a habit of winning and that habit is very difficult to instil in teams. They've got that and they'll believe they can take on anyone, so I think they're the team that could have a great run in this competition, but I don't think that's a major surprise.

To win it, I think you're looking at Manchester City or Real Madrid. City have Pep Guardiola and I know they're missing Rodri plus Kevin de Bruyne at the moment, but look at the quality of their squad as a whole.

Real have been getting over-run in midfield and they're a bit vulnerable at the back, but I think once they suss out their system to fit in Kylian Mbappe and how they need to play, their mentality in this competition is that this is theirs and this is what they turn up for. La Liga is almost a by-product. If they win it, great; if they don't, that's not the be-all and end-all. This is the competition they want to win and with the forward line they've got, they can beat anyone on their day.

Nedum Onuoha
Former Manchester City defender on Football Daily

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[It was great] to see Foden getting in and around that number 10 position and looking confident. We can all see he's not played as many minutes as he would have hoped for this season, for reasons we might never know.

But to start a game like that, especially at home, really set the tone. For [the goal] to come from him, I think that meant a lot to the crowd and him as well. I thought overall he was really good today, the way he was trying to link the play.

John Bennett
Speaking on Football Daily

For Barcelona it was all about getting through the high line of Bayern Munich. Vincent Kompany will have questions to answer, Bayern are way down in 23rd in the table [one win and two defeats]. It's the first time in their history that they've lost three Champions League away games in a row. He will get a lot of criticism in the German press over the next few days.

They had a good win at the weekend, but before that it was three games without a win and the Aston Villa defeat was a huge dissapointment. The spotlight will be on him. He made some strange decisions. Joao Palhinha started, a lot of people said he wasn't up to speed. It was a really poor performance.

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Hi Stephen, do u think the current (very confusing) Champions League format is better for players to be more involved with such big squads or a hindrance in a season with so many games already?

I think you're going to have issues whichever way you do things. You're adding more games in so players are going to find it more difficult to manage their games, and so are their managers.

The best thing you can do as a manager is to get qualified [for the knockout stages] as soon as possible. If you can do that, you can start to rotate your squad, you can bring in your fringe players and start to leave players at home, if you want. I think that's the benefit of getting the games won early on in the league phase.

For players who perhaps don't play many games, this is an opportunity to play more and to get games in the Champions League. So often, especially in England but probably in Germany and Spain as well, those players will just get their games in domestic cup competitions, whereas now they get game time in the Champions League, which is a huge bonus to them.