red_de_pologne
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The earliest he will be sacked is after failing to qualify from our CL group. Won't be easy seeing as Valencia are even worse than us.
No this isn't enough for me. We need more. Where is the dreaded vote of confidence given to LVG?He is odds on favourites to go with all the bookies, if that is any indication. https://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/next-manager-to-leave-post
He has instead become something else, the embodiment of the drift and decay at this ghost ship of a sporting giant; perhaps the most profound individual expression to date of elite football’s hurricane of waste and inanity.
Advanced B'day wishes. May this wish(at least) come trueAs mentioned in another thread, my Birthday is around the corner. C'mon .. wifey?
Approx 10.7% of fans on here must be from rival clubs, I can't see that 1 in 10 United fans would want him to stay.I wonder how many of the 'Mourinho In' crowd are simply oppo fans stirring the pot, a fairly large percentage I would imagine (at least I hope so)
With the hot summer and drought conditions it might be tricky to get a good cabbage, the match ticket will be easy to get.Quick someone get me a cabbage and a ticket for the Newcastle game...
Why not? It's not like you have a worse team than spurs or arsenal. Or even chelsea or liverpoolWe're not going to finish top 4 this season whatever he stays or not.
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I don't think that we'll set the league on fire. The squad is not good enough and on a director level the lack of football people is hurting us a lot. It takes United too much to get rid of dead wood, we sign too few players and each time we negotiate we are taken to the cleaners both in terms of fees and salaries.Well, he didn't and even if he does your post clearly looks like directed to this thread not to Mourinho himself.
Almost everyone of us want him out. The only difference is some are convincing themselves once he leaves we'll set the league on fire and others are trying to look beyond the manager positions to the other glaring issues at the clubs.
We have been at this before. Big teams don't drop much points these days and Spurs usually pick their form up in the second half. In order to have any chance we have to go on a long run and we don't look like being able to string 3 wins on the row. Neither Mourinho nor any caretaker manager will be able to bring enough stability or consistency for a long run.Why not? It's not like you have a worse team than spurs or arsenal. Or even chelsea or liverpool
There's no guarantee the rebuilding works, even with a new set of staff and a new sets of players.Would you accept writing this season off, missing out on CL next season, then spend the next two years completely rebuilding the team -and thus likely not challenging for big trophies- to keep Mourinho? We're talking about 3 years, probably 5, without winning the league, before you'll be in a position to truly challenge for the league under him
Are you ok with that? Do you think that's the best your club can do?
Whether Mourinho is still a top manager or not doesn't really matter at this point
We'll certainly won't make it with Mou. He lost the dressing room so he's a dead man walking with us.We're not going to finish top 4 this season whatever he stays or not.
Assumed this thread was for fans who have cracked and are preparing to hole up in a bunker with tinned food until they receive word that he's been given the sack.
The problem is that Mourinho lost the dressing room just as he did with Real and at Chelsea. Its that simple. Regarding transfers, sure the squad is not up for grabs but asking for 30 year old somethings on ridiculous fees isn't exactly the right way to rebuild United's fortunesThe quote he spent 400 million is a little unfair when you had two purchases in the 100 mill region, Lukaku will be a good investment, Pogba, if he cuts out the show boating, hugging the ball, and recycle the ball quicker, would be also a good investment.
The problem is the club and Mourinho have different objectives, Mourinho is a winner, and has no interest just competing for the top four.
Unfortunately, Rashford and Martial are not wide forwards or attacking midfielders, so Jose is hamstrung, to keep doing the same thing with fruitless results (playing 4231 or 433), as the board wont' sanction the sale of Jones,Rojo,Darmian to facilitate the purchase of a competent defender or Mourinho has switch to 352 to give the team balance.
Take a look at Liverpool and Man City, Salah,Mane, Sane,Sterling, what do they have in common, natural wide players.
If Mourinho had got Ivan Perišić and Willian, yes, a short term fix, 433 and 4231, would be feasible, at the same time using players from the under 23, to be understudies.
Then you know yourself nothing is going to change much from now, except that we'll regain peace in the dressing room with the new manager and good motivation for the players. Otherwise, the results will still be as it has been the last 5 years, inconsistent with lots of false down and false hope. Then you went on the rest of the post to act like we'll be completely fine once Mourinho is gone ?I don't think that we'll set the league on fire. The squad is not good enough and on a director level the lack of football people is hurting us a lot. It takes United too much to get rid of dead wood, we sign too few players and each time we negotiate we are taken to the cleaners both in terms of fees and salaries.
However we need to start from someone and having a sour tactical dinosaur who is throwing everyone under the bus in a bid to cover his arse is not helping us at all. After all we can have SAF, Napoleon or even Alexander the Great as manager but if the players aren't motivated enough to actually put their heart into the game then we would still lose. They certainly won't do that with someone as toxic as Mourinho
So Id say lets get rid of him now and bring in someone whose decent in tactics and who actually hasn't lost the dressing room three times at a row. Football has changed a lot in the past years. The idea of managers being ruthless generals leading brainless foot soldiers on the battlefield like some sort of chess game is obsolete and counterproductive. Hence why tacticians like LVG, Sacchi and Lippi had all but vanished in football to give way to people who see the need to man managing players as important as actually come out with a sound tactical plan of winning the game.
Kudos to SAF who noticed this shift early on. He did lost field general by reinventing himself but the result to that was a long and successful career with very few regrets and a lot of trophies. There again, we all know, that SAF was truly the special one.
We finished high in the table last season because of our great start in the league. This season we had a crap start already and a gap had already been formed between us the first 4 positions. Big teams don't drop many points these days and if you're left behind that early you'll never catch up.We'll certainly won't make it with Mou. He lost the dressing room so he's a dead man walking with us.
However, things might change with a new manager on board. May I remind you that this same squad was able to finish second last year. Sure the squad had regressed and we might have fluked it. However a 3rd-4th place isn't exactly unachievable.
That's why it would be good if we'd that option to see who's voting what.I wonder how many of the 'Mourinho In' crowd are simply oppo fans stirring the pot, a fairly large percentage I would imagine (at least I hope so)
Winning the league is out of the question. Finishing top 4? Why would it be impossible 7 games into the season? You're 5 points off spurs and arsenal, and neither of those sides is City. Why do you think you couldn't go on a good run? You've got more quality and talent than 14 other teams in the league. The big issue right now is not a lack of quality or flaws in the team's structure, it's the relationship between manager and players. A breath of fresh air, a new manager who can get those players happy, hungry and motivated, can quickly fix most of the problemsWe have been at this before. Big teams don't drop much points these days and Spurs usually pick their form up in the second half. In order to have any chance we have to go on a long run and we don't look like being able to string 3 wins on the row. Neither Mourinho nor any caretaker manager will be able to bring enough stability or consistency for a long run.
I want Mourinho gone now but the league is already done for me. I'll be only looking to CL for the rest of the season.
Of course not. But Mourinho already had his chance and failed. The question now is whether you'd rather wait another 3 seasons for another rebuild with him, or give the job to someone else and give him the chance to complete -complete, not rebuild- the team in the next two transfer windowsThere's no guarantee the rebuilding works, even with a new set of staff and a new sets of players.
I don't quite understand how you've determined that that's some fixed scenario where it will take 3 seasons for Mourinho to get a team in the shape he wants, why?Winning the league is out of the question. Finishing top 4? Why would it be impossible 7 games into the season? You're 5 points off spurs and arsenal, and neither of those sides is City. Why do you think you couldn't go on a good run? You've got more quality and talent than 14 other teams in the league. The big issue right now is not a lack of quality or flaws in the team's structure, it's the relationship between manager and players. A breath of fresh air, a new manager who can get those players happy, hungry and motivated, can quickly fix most of the problems
Of course not. But Mourinho already had his chance and failed. The question now is whether you'd rather wait another 3 seasons for another rebuild with him, or give the job to someone else and give him the chance to complete -complete, not rebuild- the team in the next two transfer windows
Isn't your last sentence the best argument to move on now?We have been at this before. Big teams don't drop much points these days and Spurs usually pick their form up in the second half. In order to have any chance we have to go on a long run and we don't look like being able to string 3 wins on the row. Neither Mourinho nor any caretaker manager will be able to bring enough stability or consistency for a long run.
I want Mourinho gone now but the league is already done for me. I'll be only looking to CL for the rest of the season.
The 5-6 points gap isn't a small gap anymore and as I said, Spurs usually start poorly and pick up their form in second half of the season so that's not even their best.Winning the league is out of the question. Finishing top 4? Why would it be impossible 7 games into the season? You're 5 points off spurs and arsenal, and neither of those sides is City. Why do you think you couldn't go on a good run? You've got more quality and talent than 14 other teams in the league. The big issue right now is not a lack of quality or flaws in the team's structure, it's the relationship between manager and players. A breath of fresh air, a new manager who can get those players happy, hungry and motivated, can quickly fix most of the problems
I did in December 2015 in the 'Do you want Mourinho as manager thread'Don't remember anyone saying that.
No and not just because of this season, can't stand the self-righteous twat who blames everyone for his shortcomings except himself and those that would want him for more attractive football would be in for a severe disappointment
So you think there is no guarantee a rebuilding works, but you have no issue continuing with a manager who doesn't work currently and also have no guarantee succeeding going forward?There's no guarantee the rebuilding works, even with a new set of staff and a new sets of players.
For me this is the biggest issue. People assume that changes are always for the better. It can go both ways. Even if we try to go back to our roots and tradition it's not a guarantee it will work.
Promoting more academy players? It still depends on the raw materials, does our batch of youngsters has the potential to become first team squad on merit?
Plyaing attacking football? Will it be guaranteed that we'll play better and have the result to back our performance?
Will the new dof actuallly is the right person? Or will he create and even bigger mess?
Does our problems is due to mourinho only? Who knows that we might actually be worse if not for Mourinho? And dont laugh, there are people that says they miss lvg era.
You won!I did in December 2015 in the 'Do you want Mourinho as manager thread'
Exactly. The kindest words I can say about this thread and it's author is that it's myopic at best.There's nothing noble about following an incompetent manager into the abyss. It's just moronic.