Jose strikes me as a pragmatist, he’ll fit a team around the best players he has or can get; it just so happens our two best players in Son and Kane are attackers and rather well-suited to the counter. Other managers like Pep, Klopp, Bielsa, Conte, that guy at Southampton whose name I can't spell, our own Poch may be more stubborn about having a set philosophy and demanding players fit it.
What is interesting to me though is that he hasn’t chosen to *buy* a little more defensive or “physical” - we bought two v attacking FBs, a wide AM (Stevie), a DM who’s more about movement than a “destroyer”, a striker, Gareth freaking Bale (ok that’s Levy but looks like Mourinho is happy to play him). He’s made an already instinctively attacking squad even more attacking. Skriniar would’ve been our real pure defender (haven’t seen Rodon but I’ve heard he’s more the progressive-passing “cultured” type of CB), but Jose doesn’t seem too hung up on not getting him.
That is, he's had an appetite for risk that's surprised me (in a good way). I'm hoping that means he feels comfortable here as a long-term project - it's not that he's suddenly remaking himself, it's that we're an utterly new type of challenge for him. At his age, having won it all, maybe it's that idea of building a legacy that's truly satisfying?