Well, the whole "getting a new manager" thing is still pretty new to us. You can't rule out managers on that basis.
BBC: United hold talks with Mourinho
- Thread starter Damien
- Start date
- Status
Tweet
— Twitter API (@user) date
Bye bye Mata 
Pep quit after Mou beat him to the La Liga title.
People are dumb.
Whoa, shenanigans.
Zouma was a January buy when he was 18, and loaned back to ASSE, wasn't he?
Ferguson was quick to get rid of any player who was starting to stir trouble in the dressing room wasn't he? It always prevented these mutinies happening to him. It's like he could see it coming from a mile away. Chelsea never keep a manager around long enough for them to establish a big enough role at the club so that player power doesn't become an issue.
Becoming fairly normal these days
19. I had him in my SM team at the time (still do). Even at that young age both he and Varane were touted as the next big thing defensively.
Take your own advice mate.
Pep quit because he fed up with Barca's inter-politics and was burned out by working all day long for four years. He didn't quit because of Mourinho, similarly how he didn't get the best of Mourinho almost always.
Well I would be surprised, that's all I'm saying! No chance. None. Zip. Nada.
Anybody check @Cal? if he still alive
Bosingwa, Varane, Morata, Carlton Cole, Salah (kinda) too.
Happy? Not really. I'll be happy when he wins us the league or CL every year or adapts to a more long term, exciting style of football with out imploding and failing in 3 years... then I'll be happy. If Mourinho comes, he's going to have to prove he's capable of doing the Man Utd job in my eyes.
Well, Chelsea also knocked him out of the CL. I bet he wouldn't be tired of Barca's internal politics if he had done the treble that year.
Don't ruin it Greg!
I remember from FM, was annoying as feck afterwards as you'd have to wait years to pinch him off Chelsea whereas in 14, you could nab him instantly and have a key piece of your defence sorted for 15 years.
Sometimes you can sort it up that way and sometimes you have to suck it up. If you take what happened to Maureen in perspective it makes sense why SAF refused to see what many of us saw quite clearly (a non existent CM during his latter years and Keane walking on the pitch in his last 1-2 years of United career). I seriously doubt that SAF or any other manager for all that manager could survive a mutiny from such influential figures
So, Herrera out, Ramires in next January?
@Twigginater will need regular prescriptions of Amlodipine
Sounds cheesy but he was made to manage United. There's just something about Jose managing us that seems like it was meant to be.
If we do get him I personally would find it more exciting than signing a world class player. I can imagine some of our player flourishing under him. Then again we all know some players do not work under his style.
If we do get him I personally would find it more exciting than signing a world class player. I can imagine some of our player flourishing under him. Then again we all know some players do not work under his style.
We'll finally get Mikel.
I think that he was going to leave anyway, and that Rosell and co. were happy to let him leave. His mentor (Cruyff) was exiled from the club, Laporta who gave him unconditional support left, together with Txiki Begiristain who actually gave him the job.
Pep was too popular with the fans to be get rid and Rosell offered him a contract extension, but from all reports, Pep wanted to leave whatever it happens.
Few years late, but better late than never!
But Jose leaving RMadrid for the exact same issues seem to be an issue for some?!
you're the worst kind of human beingI don't know what that is but I'm off pub.
I love the man. Which is why it is hard for me to admit that his spell at RM was the worst in his career.
The state of this thread.
What are your thoughts about Mourinho managing us?
Really didn't want him but I guess he's the best available option.
Don't even bother man, the fact that those academies didn't produce a lot of players of genuine quality should be overlooked. Folk will project one anomalous season at Chelsea over his entire career (apparently he leaves every club in the relegation zone), clubs with at times toxic broadroom and dressing room environs (Chelsea and Real Madrid with Roman and Florentino) will be used against him, but we will selectively erase Internazionale and Porto from our memories, or even Chelsea I where a lot of the players would have fallen on the sword for him; people will dig up, or even invent arguments just to have a go at Mourinho because he doesn't fit the stereotype and is too much of a *censored word*.
eg. Apparently Pep vanquished José in head to head meetings, even though:
At Internazionale, he won the European Cup against Bayern Munich, after defeating Pep's Barcelona in the semi-finals.
In his first season at Madrid, yes they lost 5-0 at the Nou Camp, and lost the league, and lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League; but they did defeat Barcelona in the finals of the Copa del Rey.
In his second season, they won the La Liga, but lost to Barcelona in the Copa del Rey.
So, in broader picture terms, and in terms of winning silverware, it was a rather even match - 1 European Cup each while facing each other in that 3 season window, 1 La Liga apiece, 1 Copa del Rey title for each, and one extra Supercopa for Pep; this despite Barcelona's superiority in terms of personnel. So the disparity in overall W/L ratio doesn't really tell the whole story.
Another one - Pep supposedly destroyed Mourinho in terms of mind-games, even though Guardiola quit immediately after José won the La Liga with Real Madrid; and seemed visibly unnerved at times through the 2011/ 2012 season - it was for a multitude of reasons to be fair, and maybe his heart wasn't in it evidenced by the sabbatical, but still, Pep snapped in the face of Mourinho's war of words:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...Pep-Guardiola-over-the-edge-at-Barcelona.html
Pep says (to quote) - "He has won the battle off the pitch". But nah, Guardiola destroyed Mourinho when it came to mind games.
For the love of everything that is holy in this world, let it be true!!
We need to remember something important here, he's a massive twat.
Not the kind where you say "but he's our twat" no, he's the "i don't wanna be seen with this twat" kind.
Not the kind where you say "but he's our twat" no, he's the "i don't wanna be seen with this twat" kind.
Sure.
The problems were much deeper than they losing a game or getting found from each other.
That's rich.
I'll settle for one league title and him feckin' off. The one massive thing for me is somebody... anybody winning our first post-Fergie title. Once we know we're not doing another 26 year barren spell, we'll be fine.
- Status