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AgreedGiggs will never be United manager.
Woodward isn't a hopeless romantic.
His best chance was succeeding Van Gaal. Thank goodness sanity prevailed.
AgreedGiggs will never be United manager.
Woodward isn't a hopeless romantic.
His best chance was succeeding Van Gaal. Thank goodness sanity prevailed.
Agree with the bolded part. I think the club was putting all the pieces in place, but unfortunately LVGs lack of success meant that we couldnt afford to take a gamble and went for the safest possible option in Jose. Had LVG achieved a bit more, I fully expect Giggs would be taking over as manager this summer.Giggs will never be United manager.
Woodward isn't a hopeless romantic.
His best chance was succeeding Van Gaal. Thank goodness sanity prevailed.
There's no comparison at all. Zidane managed the Real Madrid youth and B teams before moving up to the first team. You'd also have to be grossly incompetent not to win anything with that Real Madrid team. If Giggs was so determined to be United Manager he should have taken on the reserve team and maintained that United link for the future. Knowledge of a club counts for nothing....you simply can't replace real experience. Tell that to John Carver!Agree with the bolded part. I think the club was putting all the pieces in place, but unfortunately LVGs lack of success meant that we couldnt afford to take a gamble and went for the safest possible option in Jose. Had LVG achieved a bit more, I fully expect Giggs would be taking over as manager this summer.
Best comparison that comes to mind for me is Zidane. The work Giggs did as coach/assistant manager at United is comparable to Zidane's CV prior to being given the Real job. The success of one doesnt guarantee the success of the other of course, but it just shows that it is perfectly possible for a great player to make that step up within the club they established themselves at. In depth knowledge of a particular club can be just as valuable (I would say far more so) than "earning your stripes" at a League 2 club.
That said, im not sure any PL club would be willing to take the risk on Giggs at this point as he is unproven. With United he at least had those connections and that knowledge of the club - take that away and he doesnt look that appealing a prospect.
He strikes me as a guy who fancied the United manager job, rather than a manager's job per se.Ryan said quite recently that he wasn't in a hurry to manage, so I don't really believe what this article says. The press link him with every available job. It's almost as if they're more desperate for him to manage than he is.
That's the impression I get... just doesn't seem to have a great desire for management itself. I don't blame him one bit - he's got his business interests, maybe the punditry (even if he's not great at that), and his great footballing legacy. Why bother with the precarious world of management with the pressure and ridicule (if you feck up). You really need to have a strong desire (or be a masochist) to go into football management.He strikes me as a guy who fancied the United manager job, rather than a manager's job per se.
Now that's off the cards, I can definitely see him doing a Shearer, and instead taking the far, far easier option of the studio and a bit of analysis and chat.
Can't blame him, it's a stressy old insecure game, and way different to what he was exceptionally gifted at doing.
You see it in workplaces all the time, someone's excellent at their job, and get promoted to managing people, and are rubbish at it.
Should there be much surprise? The two things are completely different.
Why do people always compare him to Zidane and Guardiola? Both have actually managed clubs before for a long time, their B teams. Giggs has managed 4 games.Agree with the bolded part. I think the club was putting all the pieces in place, but unfortunately LVGs lack of success meant that we couldnt afford to take a gamble and went for the safest possible option in Jose. Had LVG achieved a bit more, I fully expect Giggs would be taking over as manager this summer.
Best comparison that comes to mind for me is Zidane. The work Giggs did as coach/assistant manager at United is comparable to Zidane's CV prior to being given the Real job. The success of one doesnt guarantee the success of the other of course, but it just shows that it is perfectly possible for a great player to make that step up within the club they established themselves at. In depth knowledge of a particular club can be just as valuable (I would say far more so) than "earning your stripes" at a League 2 club.
That said, im not sure any PL club would be willing to take the risk on Giggs at this point as he is unproven. With United he at least had those connections and that knowledge of the club - take that away and he doesnt look that appealing a prospect.
Good point however the point doesn't apply here because Ryan is an aspiring manager he is not in the football management field yet. If I was an aspiring football manager I wouldn't be snobbish about my first break into my profession as far as seeing the Championship as beneath me.If there was a job in your professional field, which seemed to have very good prospects for you and an improvement on your current position, would you not show interest?
Nothing wrong with showing an interest in a job, its not like he's claiming publicly that he's the best option available to them.
That's not Utd's problem on its own, that's a problem with English football. We simply don't produce the number of intelligent, tactically aware young managers that other countries do. A little bit harsh on Gary Neville but agree with the others.I cant speak much about La Liga but in Italy there are two clubs who produce/refine most of the managers. These clubs are Milan (Maldini, Trapattoni, Capello, Ancelotti, Donadoni etc) and Juventus (Zoff, Deschamps, Zidane, Conte etc). Young promising managers tend to love going there because they give you structure and they teach you the ropes. People like Allegri, Lippi and Sacchi have a lot to thank Juventus/Milan for and their football is copy and paste Juventus/Milan style.There are clubs who are capable of producing young managers and unfortunately we're not one of them. Throughout our history we weren't able to produce 1 top quality manager and you only have to spend 10 minutes listening to the likes of Gary Neville, Lou Macari, Ryan Giggs, Philip Neville or Robbie Savage to understand why. While other clubs build a hierarchy of roles with football directors supervising every aspect of the game and giving advice/instructs what the manager should do, United expect the manager to handle everything. The only way that a Man United manager can succeed is to be an absolute genius. No wonder why players stand at awed at him and no wonder why no frigging rookie can hope of ever doing it. Moyes had 10 years experience at Everton and even him looked out of depth at United.
The only way United can produce top managers is for us to rethink the whole system up. We need top football directors who are experts in all aspects of the game and who are able to advise and when necessary step in and stop the manager from doing mistakes. That happens all the time at Juventus. Spoiler alert it occasionally pisses off managers enough to leave. Just ask Lippi and Conte. Till then lets be content of being able to produce good foot soldiers with a lot of heart but little managerial brains. People like the Nevilles, Giggs and Savage.
That's true. However Id rather focus on United setup and why we were never able to develop an in house top managerThat's not Utd's problem on its own, that's a problem with English football. We simply don't produce the number of intelligent, tactically aware young managers that other countries do. A little bit harsh on Gary Neville but agree with the others.
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Give it to Giggsy until the end of the season.
I think you should prove yourself in league 2 first.Feck it, i'll put my hat in the ring and say i'm interested too.
Arguably because if they get that first gig wrong, they're done and will never get a PL opportunity.I don't understand why some of these 'big name' rookie managers can't cut their teeth in the lower leagues first.
Because if they f*ck it up, there goes any chance of a PL job. Being an unknown entity beats being a proven failure. And unknown entities do get PL jobs occasionally.I don't understand why some of these 'big name' rookie managers can't cut their teeth in the lower leagues first.
Because he has no confidence, probably because he won’t be good enough.I don't understand why some of these 'big name' rookie managers can't cut their teeth in the lower leagues first.
Fear of failure. Simply.I don't understand why some of these 'big name' rookie managers can't cut their teeth in the lower leagues first.
He wants to be in before Moyes declares his love for Everton and unfinished business and all such nonsenseFair play for putting himself there. Something he's not really done until now.
I think you should prove yourself in league 2 first.