Brwned
Have you ever been in love before?
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No I think they would go to another team in Europe first. And they'd happily sit out for a bit until that opportunity comes up. As both Zidane and Ancelotti did. If we can find a top manager desperate for a job who has no big european or london club looking for them, then yes we can get them. That happens pretty rarely, maybe once a decade.I don't agree with this theory at all because the only manager you'd say turned us down after a proper approach is Guardiola and it turns out he was already on his way to Bayern by then. London for all its famed advantages still has one CL to its name whilst the North has nine.
The way I see it is that United failed to attract top managerial talent because they have a clown in charge, nothing more. Do you really believe an out of work Zidane/Ancelotti would turn down £20m a year at United just because London is better to live in when no club down there pays as much?
The problem at United is that Woodward has learned and forgotten nothing about running a football club, particularly navigating the murky waters of the transfer market and this restricts us in what we can do. Of all the four managers that we have hired don't you find it predictable that all were either out of work or employed at Molde in Ole's case? The Glazers probably think it's an unnecessary expense to pay for a manager and hence make half hearted approaches to look just to tick the name off the list.
Who were we going to get when fergie was going to leave the first time? We would have been sounding out opportunities ever since Sir Alex's first announcement, just in case. The answers didn't change in over a decade.You are using a single/unique moment to define our place as a football club. It's wrong.
The year Fergie retired was unique and screwed us because he himself only decided to leave in December of that season. We were quite simply way too late to make a play for one of the 'top' managers who were moving that summer.
Guardiola had already committed to Bayern
Mourinho was a dead man walking at Real and Chelsea had already sounded him out for a return (Rafa was only ever a caretaker)
Ancelotti himself was on the way to Madrid
We ended up with Moyes because those 3 were off the table, and SAF was caught up in the romantic idea his mate was his 2nd coming and deserved a shot at the top.
It isn't one moment, it's an uncomfortable truth.