Perhaps a Mourinho and Phil Neville double team would be better, has more experience
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
This makes a lot more sense to me then what we were hearing before - one of Mourinho and Mendes' pet hacks writing that nothing is agreed with United, that Jose might well go elsewhere rather than United, etc. - makes more sense to me, that's seems a pretty blatant agent leak designed to aid negotiations, and to put pressure on the other side. That would mean that something is actually happening.
For me this gives more hope to the pro-Mourinho side of the argument at this stage.
For me this gives more hope to the pro-Mourinho side of the argument at this stage.
Why can't we just give him the job today?
I wonder how many of those 551 who voted 'no' still hold that opinion?
A wise man had shown the way forward, back in Feb '16. If only Woody had read it, it would not have led to the episode of LvG blasting club recently.
A lot of them I imagine. I think a lot of them would still vote no even if we were to win a Premier League and Champions League double.
I've changed my mind. Shouldn't be surprising the number of 'no' votes given the timing the thread started. Complete implosion in the final year at Chelsea, the stuff with the doctor and the sad stuff with his dad on his mind.
A couple of years prior to the thread starting, Mourinho was the favourite option by far to succeed Sir Alex. Just my opinion but over half of those who voted 'no' in 2015 would have voted 'yes' in 2013.
I've changed my mind.
Think he's perfect for the job.
First few pages are pretty interesting. 
Yeah I still think the amount of no votes was a little out of proportion when you took his whole career into account at that point. There was a large chunk of knee jerk votes imo but at the same time I can't say that I didn't have slight reservations myself at the time.
Yeah I voted no. Can't remember my reasoning for it back then.
I've been 100% Jose since a few games into last season though.
I've been 100% Jose since a few games into last season though.
By the same token we were playing absolute horseshit football under Van Gaal at that point. My yes vote was as much a 'at least he can't make the football worse to watch' vote as it was a glowing endorsement of Mourinho himself.
I voted 'no' and regularly compared Jose to Hitler, only with fewer attacking instincts. In conclusion, my opinions aren't worth the pixels they're written on.
Got my vote in
I always preferred Carlo Ancelotti, which is probably why I voted no. And, like Damien said, José's star wasn't shining the brightest back then. There's no doubt that he's one of the handful of managers with big enough balls to run the club properly.
As is this thread bump. Let's give it another couple of years no? All well and good at the moment but let's not pretend Jose doesn't have a history of losing the plot in his third/fourth seasons. Hopefully he stays for a good few years and proves us all wrong.
Same. Bearing in mind the landscape and all that I felt it was the reasonable position. I remember those that were adamant that Mourinho should be the guy and I wouldn't argue with them but I couldn't agree with them either. Kudos to those guys...
I didn't vote because I wasn't here back then but i've wanted Jose since Fergie said he would definitely retire.
I voted No because I had concerns over his behaviour and his history of not staying long at clubs. I feel better about him but still not 100%
Can't really say I've been thrilled to have Mourinho, but he certainly has cleaned up the shop and implanted work ethics, which is something I value. So well... yeah, he's convinced me to some degree.
Exactly.
I voted no for all the same reasons everyone else did. I warmed to him when he went out and signed (via woody) Bailly Miki pogba and ibra. Assured and got them in. Bit different this summer though. Lindelof was assured, lukaku and morata were a bit like a kid in a sweet shop not knowing which candy to buy, then he gets matic, and fails with perisic. So far his usual pattern is emerging. Next season is where he needs to break it.
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This.
Voted no apparently.
Would have preferred ancelotti but i am glad we have him. Ges been great so far. Clearing up the mess of moyes and lvg while winning two trophies and giving us what be one of our best first five games of the season for a long time!
Would have preferred ancelotti but i am glad we have him. Ges been great so far. Clearing up the mess of moyes and lvg while winning two trophies and giving us what be one of our best first five games of the season for a long time!
Don't forget, when this poll was done it was off the back of that season at Chavs when he was sacked, that's why I voted no.
In the post SAF poll, this was post the unpleasant behaviour at RM, fighting/eye gouging etc, so I would have voted for Pep at the time, rather than Jose.
In the post SAF poll, this was post the unpleasant behaviour at RM, fighting/eye gouging etc, so I would have voted for Pep at the time, rather than Jose.
It's posters like these who I love to wind up, regarding Jose.
They must feel angry every time we win a game, with Jose in charge.
And to see us joint top must really be irksome.
The funny thing is that Pep is/was worshipped on this forum, despite showing (after last year) that he is a cheque book manager. He can't win unless he has the best player in the World or the most expensive squad in the league.
It's always fun viewing posts we all made, a few years ago, predicting certain things, if only to see who got their predictions wrong/right.
I voted no and said he was poison.
I definitely warmed to the idea as that treacherous LvG season went on, and soon realised it just had to be him.
I'm still not particularly a fan of his character, but can't really fault the job he's done so far. The group looks tight knit and the improvements on the pitch are there to see.
I definitely warmed to the idea as that treacherous LvG season went on, and soon realised it just had to be him.
I'm still not particularly a fan of his character, but can't really fault the job he's done so far. The group looks tight knit and the improvements on the pitch are there to see.
So, you based your decision on one bad season, while forgetting all the other successful seasons he had?
You would've preferred Pep who had no inclination to join us and desperately wanted to manager MCFC? But you didn't want Jose, who desperately wanted to join us?
That some interesting logic.
Judging by the state of some posts across the forum they definitely are. Still there was shite posted when Fergie was manager, they'll always be so no matter how succesful we are
I think the problem is that some people let behaviour get in the way of seeing the success.
You changed your tune?
Not at all, if you read most of my comments on him I said if he changed his style of play and got us playing the way we all wanted then there'd be no arguments. I was going to go looking for one or two of my comments a couple of weeks ago to repost it. I think it was in the "what would Jose have to do to win you over" thread or something similar but I'm not a sad enough cnut to go trawling through posts looking for sarcastic comments from over a year ago. Better things to be doing fortunately. But well done you.
And for the record, "I wouldn't let him manage the lunch run at the minute" was a comment made AFTER he had his meltdown and was sacked from Chelsea... Twat.
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This. Clueless.
Shame.
Pretty much exactly this.