Jamie Carragher doesn't believe Jose Mourinho will be in charge of Manchester United this time next season if the Red Devils' form doesn't improve drastically.

Mourinho's men kick-started the campaign with a win over Leicester City at Old Trafford before they were beaten 3-2 by Brighton at the Amex, in what was a shocking display.

United have already fallen behind Manchester City and Liverpool in the title race, and this, coupled with Mourinho's on-going spats with big players at the club, has made him favourite with the bookies to be the first managerial casualty of this campaign.

"Not just because of yesterday and not a big knee-jerk reaction as Man United lost a game away from home, but what's happened in the summer, if performances like that continue, I don't think Jose Mourinho will be manager of Man United next season," Carragher said.

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"He may not be manager of them at some point this season. But I think there will be coaches up and down the country looking at Mourinho at what he said in the summer about bringing players in, a centre-back.

"He's spent £30million on two of them, and he had two England internationals in [Phil] Jones and [Chris] Smalling. They might be saying 'coach them, make them better'. But for almost every coach I would say yeah, that would be right. But not Mourinho.

"And I'll tell you why. Mourinho's a manager for today, not tomorrow. Ed Woodward brought him in and he knew that because Manchester United messed up with two appointments before hand.

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"So the Man United traditions have gone out the window. When you get Mourinho, it's all about winning right now. That's why he's bought Zlatan [Ibrahimovic], [Alexis] Sanchez, [Nemanja] Matic. That's why he's gone for centre-halves aged 29, 30.

"Now, you can't just pull the plug on him and go the Man United way again of buying younger players. You've got the wrong manager. If you're going to do that, you might as well get rid of him."

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