Pochetino said no to Real but will come to that sewege. Yeah, exactly how it will turn out....
The Mourinho Thread: Should he stay or go? | Sacked
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Well I guess he's also looking for some job security. Madrid are very trigger happy, whilst we tend to be the opposite of that, bar Moyes example of course.
Full self preservation mode.
I'm sensing a change of mood in the media, which might hasten his departure. I can but dream. His revision of targets is now embarrassing. We hired him cos he used to be the special one. If we wanted the inept one or the negative and boring one we could have stuck with Moyes or LVG.
I know he's probably less poisonous behind closed doors and probably speaks more highly of his players, but he sure does make them sound like utter mugs in public.
That is such an awful thing to say as a manager. Literally pissing all over his players any chance he gets.
Ed wouldnt mind some Dick
All he cares about is defending his own reputation, at the expense of everyone and everything else. I'm getting closer to the point of wanting the players to down tools and throw games just to get him sacked.
He doesn't deserve 20 mill. Let us ride it out.
It is tiring everyone out . Wasn't it just last season when he proudly told us " this is my team" and "we're ready to challenge for the title" ?
Fast forward to December and we're already out of the title race the excuse being "Manchester City buy fullbacks for the price of strikers" and some of us may have accepted our position.
Fast forward to the next December and we're already facing an uphill battle to get into ttop 4 the excuse is "we finished ahead of teams with more potential than us" . you see how the expectations are being lowered ? It's frightening and quite frankly dishonest. The man is a liar. only interested in preserving his reputation nothing else
I’d rather we got an interim coach and then got Poch in the summer.
I think we need a new face in the dugout as soon as possible, even if it's only temporary (a caretaker).
Mourinho is poison.
As I said before, give it Zizou 'til the end of the season.
I'm beginning to tilt towards this idea instead of letting Ed drive me crazy with his ineptness. Since he's not gonna fire him for $20m let's get petty and let Jose bury himself, piss off all the players,lose the dressing room, get the fans to boo Fergie, have a full blown meltdown....sick of all the moaning and Woody trolling us
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Same here tbf. So many new managers have come in and revolutionised their teams. Getting a team to start playing beautiful stuff isn't beyond an interim like Mckenna
Can't help but think we're wasting our time chasing Poch. I hope the board has things better planned out this time.
Ideally the board will have already decided on a DoF by now and he's working working on plans for the summer so everything will be ready to go when the new manager arrives.
Can't be wasting time giving the new manager time to come in the summer, take time to asses the squad then decide on the transfer targets. Already made that mistake 3 times.
All I'm asking for is a proper plan and a DoF, really shouldn't be too hard for a club of this size.
Ideally the board will have already decided on a DoF by now and he's working working on plans for the summer so everything will be ready to go when the new manager arrives.
Can't be wasting time giving the new manager time to come in the summer, take time to asses the squad then decide on the transfer targets. Already made that mistake 3 times.
All I'm asking for is a proper plan and a DoF, really shouldn't be too hard for a club of this size.
His agent just released a statement saying he's going nowhere.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...ours-jose-mourinho-leaving-manchester-united/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...ours-jose-mourinho-leaving-manchester-united/
I'd read very very little into a statement like that. We know he's here for a little while longer, sadly.
Great to see there's one man in the club with a bit of fighting spirit. Woodward and the players take note.
Would you take finishing outside the top 4 this season if that's the only way he's leaving?
I think we will have to take that anyway
All I can say is if he thinks coming second last season was a brilliant achievement, then Pochetino should be given a Knighthood for what he has overachieved at Spurs, with the resources he has. Get rid of the deluded idiot,& do all we can to bring Poch in.
Would it kill him to say "we" instead of constant I I I I I I I…
Eh? The United job is in every single way easier than the Real one:
- Based on recent evidence, we are more willing to pay the big fees and wages than they have been
- The requirements are much much lower. For the first season under the new manager, all he will have to do is get back into the top 4 and play some good football. Contrast that with Madrid, where anything less than a close second to Barcelona is probably going to get the manager the sack.
- Real's best players are the aging ones (Kroos, Modric, Ramos..). We're quite the opposite with Pogba, Martial, De Gea, Rashford, Lukaku, Bailly, Lindelof. They have more quality but there is a serious rebuilding job coming up and the money needed will be ridiculous.
- We are the only set of fans of a big club that has a weird affinity with managers and are very patient with them. You think Madrid fans would be quite right now if they were in our position?
- We can at the very least match Madrid in wages offered to the manager.
What's with the random tweets from journos saying we've had no contact with Spurs over Poch?
Why would he leave Spurs for United?
He would probably stick 3 fingers up at you
He'd likely get more freedom and wages to continue on his project. Not to forget Man Utd is a prestigious club go work for on ones CV.
I don't think he will actually leave Spurs though, just playing devil's advocate!
And it will take someone who doesn't care much about his career to take United job, with slime to no chances of competing on big trophies for some years, a squad with so many holes and in a league with 5 other rivals. At least Madrid has 1 rival in Spain, and with a good attacking signing they can very well return to where they were the previous 2 seasons.
Because he’ll get paid more, be able to pay his squad more and have more money to sign new players.
Three compelling reasons right there, even if you ignore the fact it’s a much more prestigious job to have on his CV than managing Spurs (which it is)
Beat me to it, damn you!
Weird, I don't remember the last time I heard something like this.
I'm reading too much into it but I wonder if the club is waiting for Mournhio to quit for Madrid and this is his way saying it won't happen.
It is especially interesting since he says that the club are happy with his work - if that's true, the mind boggles, but if it isn't it puts the club in a tricky position. They can't realistically deny the statement without sacking him off, but their lack of comment could be taken as tacit support for Mourinho. Clever move all in all by Mendes.
All of these things apply to Real Madrid though. So his choice is between continuing his current adventure with a young a talented team or get a new challenge one more comfortable but not easier in the same league and the other in an exigent club but with one of the top 2 clubs.
I could see him pick any of these options and they could all be reasonable.
Mendes and Mourinho have got their balls choking Woodward's mouth. Any United fan that doesn't want Woodward to have to pay the big bucks to the manager to go is just being spiteful. I'd rather it be on Mourinho's pay off than spent on the Tampa Bay Buccaroo's or whatever they're called.
If Poch has a choice between Real or us, he'd be mad not to go to Real. We'll still go for him even if he fails miserably there, but would they be so keen on him if he makes a mess with us? Might be a once in a lifetime chance for him.
Can he stop painting us as some plucky underdogs? We're Manchester United ffs.
Its Mourinho spin, released by his own agent. His sociopathic mind wouldn't allow him to even contemplate the thought that most United fans would throw a party if he left us for Madrid.
I wish we were more plucky.
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