Mourinho has deployed many of the aggressive, familiar tactics at his disposal and we are not even out of October yet: going to war with the Football Association; lashing out at the club’s staff, with his treatment of doctor Eva Carneiro and physio Jon Fearn; implying there are forces working against him; leaving out big-name players such as captain John Terry and even subbing the substitute as he did with Nemanja Matic. They are not unusual tactics for Mourinho. What is unusual is that he has run through them so early in the campaign. It suggests he is struggling to find solutions.