5 people who will be dreading Mourinho's return

Along with Roy Keane, Luis Suarez, and John Terry, Jose Mourinho is one of the most divisive personalities to feature in the history of the Premier League - and he's back.

While the Portuguese's impending arrival at Manchester United will be met warmly by much of the Old Trafford faithful, his tenure will inevitably ruffle a few feathers of both familiar foes in the division and favoured folk within the club's hierarchy.

Here are five people dreading the all-but-certain return of the controversial and confrontational manager.

Juan Mata

Upon the conclusion of the 2012-13 campaign, Juan Mata was awarded with his second consecutive player of the year award at Chelsea. The inventive Spaniard's consistency over a period that saw FA Cup, Champions League, and Europa League triumphs was much appreciated by Blues supporters, and pivotal in a turbulent time that saw three different managers come and go. His fourth and final boss at Stamford Bridge was Mourinho.

Mata, however, wasn't deemed fit for Mourinho's second coming, and was promptly benched to leave the places of Eden Hazard, Oscar, and Ramires relatively untroubled in the starting XI. He was sold to David Moyes' United in the winter transfer window, and must now worry about another miserable residency among the substitutes with Mourinho's arrival.

Pep Guardiola

Some 42 years after the release of American synth seducers Sparks' biggest hit, its lyrics have never been more appropriate for a northwest wrangle:

This town ain't big enough for the both of us, and it ain't me who's going to leave.

New Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola's attractive, pressing attacking philosophy is at odds with Mourinho's insistence on stymieing the opposition before concerning himself with attacking. In their 16 touchline meetings, six matches have ended even, but Guardiola boasts a 7-3 advantage in the other ties.

The ex-Barcelona boss has bitten back at Mourinho for his mind games before: Guardiola famously described him as "the f---ing boss of the press conference" before dumping his Real Madrid out of the Champions League in 2011.

They're set to bring the simmering Manchester derby to boiling point.

Nicky Butt

Former United midfielder and youth team graduate Nicky Butt was drafted in to head the club's academy in February. It was no sentimental appointment, tasking Butt with youth sides that had been overwhelmed with startling regularity, including an embarrassing 9-0 loss to archrival Manchester City at the under-14 level.

Unfortunately for Butt, he'll now have to contend with a manager not exactly renowned for giving youth a chance. Mourinho couldn't find a place for Kevin De Bruyne or Romelu Lukaku in his lineups, and seemed unable to guide youngsters from the successful Chelsea academy into the first team. Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Marcus Rashford, and Cameron Borthwick-Jackson made the step up to the United senior squad under Louis van Gaal, but they could be the last graduates for some time.

Bobby Charlton

Sir Bobby Charlton, the United great who has Old Trafford's south stand named in his honour, is widely believed to have been the man to scupper Mourinho's hire in 2013, when Moyes was preferred.

"A United manager wouldn't do that," the club ambassador said in 2012, referring to when Mourinho gouged the eye of then-Barcelona assistant Tito Vilanova in the 2011 Spanish Super Cup. "Mourinho is a really good coach but that's as far as I would go really."

Despite Charlton's sentiments, Mourinho has been called upon. If he continues to displease Charlton, though, he's upsetting the grandfather of United.

Arsene Wenger

Few managerial rivalries are as heated as the one between Mourinho and Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.

Mourinho has described the stubborn Frenchman as a "voyeur" and, most disrespectfully, a "specialist in failure." Wenger hasn't held back in his barbs either, calling his then-Chelsea counterpart "stupid" in 2005 and questioning Mourinho's credentials in 2007 given his spendthrift ways with the Blues.

United and Arsenal's first meeting in the 2016-17 season should be packed with scuffles and choice words - and that's just between the two grey-haired gaffers in the technical area.