A+ mental gymnastics.
Do you think a manager would choose Man utd over Chelsea, Liverpool and Bayern
Chelsea have a billion pound squad, also very young.
Liverpool is machine
Bayern is top two in there league most years
Barca might be skint, are we skint?
Of course some would. Chelsea are a shit show with a billion pound squad that looks like its a £100m squad. Clearly structural issues at the club to spend that much and be where they are. This is their long term position as well. They have a new owner who is running this his way and this is what hes doing.
Liverpool is following one of the best managers ever and basically like following Ferguson. I imagine that a large number of the people around Klopp are leaving as well. The cornerstones of that squad are getting old as well. Salah and VVD will be gone soon.
Bayern job is a bit of a thankless task. Win the league. Well done, thats literally the barest of minimums expected. They have blown through managers recently and I might be wrong but I get the impression there are a lot of politics at Bayern and a lot of egos in that team. Unless you are winning everything domestically and challenging for the CL then you will be at risk. The challenge in the Bayern job is to meet ridiculous expectations. Its not to do anything particularly exciting.
Barca is another political mess, a financial mess and they look like they could be on the cusp of a big fall from grace, they just haven't accepted it yet. While RM have been buying quality young talent for a few years and rebuilding their fantastic but ageing squad, Barca have just been lurching about from one mess to another.
The United job is what it has been for years now. A carrot on the end of a stick. Probably out of reach but the allure of taking United back to the top will always be there and with Ineos at the helm and our recent moves towards running like a modern club this is probably the most interesting time in years to come here. Theres a good chance it will be a hiding to nothing but its always a big lure. There are obviously massive caveats to this like all the clubs above but I still think that the United job is easily one of the most coveted still.
I think people forget that clubs have to generally pick a manager from whos available at the time unless they have really planned for it. City had chased Guardiola for a while but most top clubs either have one of the top managers pinned down ie. that manager isn't on the market or they have to find a new one in 6 months or so from whoever is out of a job.
