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Jose Mourinho taking aim at his Roma squad is far from the first time he has publicly savaged players... Paul Pogba, Eden Hazard and Tanguy Ndombele are just some to be thrown under the bus - but what happened next, and does the criticism WORK?

Yes, it's happened again. It feels like just a matter of weeks since Jose Mourinho took charge at Roma, and already he has done a very respectable job in potentially alienating half of his players there. It's hardly a surprise, either.

It's difficult to blame him from cutting a frustrated figure after his side's Europa Conference League defeat at Bodo/Glimt. Already, the pressures of the job are lined on his face, made worse by the biting cold temperatures in Norway.

After all, the loss was bad enough, such was the degree of its shock, but the result also marked the first time a team managed by Mourinho has conceded six or more goals in a single game.