People need to realize that Jose inherited a broken squad with broken spirit. There's no player with winning mentality that he inherited and bringing in Ibra and Pogba helped a lot in that sense.
Jose needs time to get hold of the squad especially with all those overpaid squad players that he has (Young, Fellaini, Basti, Rojo, Jones, etc). Yes the results are not great, even poor by his standards, but the improvement in the overall play is really impressive. Jose loves really short squads and he has a big one to work with at the moment. You have to have improvement on the pitch not only on the table, and in that sense he' doing pretty well. Jose always got criticized that he uses few players and doesn't rotate even in cup games, yet doing that this season he is criticized that he doesn't play some caf favorites every game.
Putting Basti on also shows a lot about his character and man management. LvG would never do that as he's stubborn as it gets. Thing is with Jose - he manages to bounce back after a bad result and he has the balls to change things around and try different approach. I like that.