Fair point, after all this is the club that hired Moyes and then persisted with LVG despite seeing the worst football and results of the Premier league era. Its the blind leading the blind in the boardroom.
Anything is possible.
BBC: United hold talks with Mourinho
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Fair point, after all this is the club that hired Moyes and then persisted with LVG despite seeing the worst football and results of the Premier league era. Its the blind leading the blind in the boardroom.
Anything is possible.
I really really hope you're right mate.
With our board. Absolutely.
I just wish we'd confirm him already so I could look forward to next season, the season will be dead for us in the next ten days and we might as well start building some hope for next season.
There used to be so many rumours, and ITK's, about Mou and LvG, now... nothing!
NOTHING!
Absofluckinlutely nothing!
I need something to happen soon, or i will honestly freak out, and probably end up on a mental institution.
NOTHING!
Absofluckinlutely nothing!
I need something to happen soon, or i will honestly freak out, and probably end up on a mental institution.
Everybody is forced to shut up thanks to the women who knew too much.
There have been more than enough reports in recent weeks, to be fair. Why should Di Marzio and others keep repeating themselves?
Yes, maybe so, but what about trying to get that 4th spot?
Get in someone capable of doing that?
Louis doesn't look like he'll make it.
Have they just given up?
I am getting desperate!
Atleast i am eating egg and bacon now, so i'm feeling a bit better
Get in someone capable of doing that?
Louis doesn't look like he'll make it.
Have they just given up?
I am getting desperate!
Atleast i am eating egg and bacon now, so i'm feeling a bit better
I think it's done and even though we'd all want to see us announce it to ease our minds, it's not a good idea to do the same thing City did with Pep/Pellegrini. Van Gaal would actually implode.
Unlucky guys. He is coming to Everton.
If by implode you mean he'll go batshit and play attacking football instead of his dross philosophy, then I'm all for it. Ironically it's a happy and comfortable LVG that puts as at our worst.
That's one of the reasons why you can't go all british with Mourinho, if you don't put someone between him and the paycheck, he is going to make all his groceries with Mendes.
Pretty much like sir Alex did. At one point a substantial part of our team was Mendes clients including that Portuguese kid who wasn't good in football.
I think that strategy is wrong. I criticised it with SAF and I'll do the same with Maureen or any other manager who thinks that way
Pot and kettle spring to mind for anyone criticising Mourinho/Mendes situation. Ferguson had his pet agents for years.
Ferguson also called Mendes "the best agent I have ever worked with". I don't mind it at all.
that doesn't mean I have to agree with it. I am in the pro Mourinho camp btw
I know mate. Just pointing out that the majority on here using the Mendes relationship as a point against Mourinho were on the most part quite happy to turn a blind eye with Ferguson.
I think that its a done deal and he will arrive in Summer.
My understanding is that Mourinho and our CEO are currently looking to bring in a DOF (rubber stamped by Mourinho).
It is also clear that Mourinho has been to plenty of scouting missions in recent weeks, watching many different games/teams.
There was also a rumour recently that one Spanish club had been in contact with Jose and Jose told them that he would be buying one of their players for MUFC next season.
Someone high up at Inter Milan also let slip that Jose is happy that he is joining MUFC next season.
Di Marzio has repeatedly stated that the deal is done.
I can't beleive that each and every single one of these rumours/stories are fabricated.Its a done deal.
My understanding is that Mourinho and our CEO are currently looking to bring in a DOF (rubber stamped by Mourinho).
It is also clear that Mourinho has been to plenty of scouting missions in recent weeks, watching many different games/teams.
There was also a rumour recently that one Spanish club had been in contact with Jose and Jose told them that he would be buying one of their players for MUFC next season.
Someone high up at Inter Milan also let slip that Jose is happy that he is joining MUFC next season.
Di Marzio has repeatedly stated that the deal is done.
I can't beleive that each and every single one of these rumours/stories are fabricated.Its a done deal.
The only things that make me think the José deal is on are:
* No other clubs are being realistically linked with Mourinho.
* No matter what LVG says, the club's utter silence on the JM rumour is surely telling.
* No other clubs are being realistically linked with Mourinho.
* No matter what LVG says, the club's utter silence on the JM rumour is surely telling.
I think the clubs utter silence on lvg is even more telling.
I agree. I made the same point in another thread.
That's the problem with some of the posters in this forum. Just because a person may disagree with some of the decisions a person may take or is concerned about some of his weak areas that doesn't mean he hates him. Not everything is as clear cut as that. Actually very things are
I would say its strange that the club haven't come out and publicly backed LVG, but again they did say with confidence that Moyes was going to be given more time when he was shit, and then proceeded to sack him shortly after anyway.
I also think that Ms Moratti spilled the beans. There's no reason why she would have lied
That's only one interpretation of it.
The other is, JM is no closer to the Utd job,LVG stays until Giggs is handed the job.
Anyone else worry that Mourinho has been found out tactically? He plays the same regurgitated 4-2-3-1 like Moyes' 4-1-4-1 no matter what the opponent throws at him, signs the same kind of players at every club and looked even more miserable/clueless once things started going bad for him at Chelsea. Infact they looked incapable of playing football while he was there.
Indeed. Our main players, Benzema, Thiago and Pedro, wouldn't be best pleased about such fabricated rumours not panning out either!
I don't know what you mean by "found out tactically", he won the league last season; Real Madrid, Chelsea and Inter played differently and he had success with all of them. And in the last two seasons he played the CL's quarter and semi finals.
Not sure how much they played differently because the only tactically different team he had was at Inter, where he played Milito and Eto together. Even there he started to push Eto wider to accommodate his single striker system and asking Eto to play predominantly as a winger. There's a certain degree of flexibility and fluidity to most top managers like Pep, Ferguson and Ancelotti who succeed for a long time, I don't see that with Mourinho.
He's the kind of guy who buys a new house, brings down the entire house and rebuilds it just like his old house because knows no other alternative. Mourinho managed to do well for so long because he overwhelmingly bought proven talent and once his motivation skills begin to wane or if a player or two under-performs like they had at Chelsea, everything goes down the drain for him.
I'm a bit confused, you think that because he plays in 4231, it's exactly the same system?
I would definitely subscribe to that scenario even after Moratti's sister being so open about Mou's arrival as a lot family members especially of powerful people do that kind of stunt sometimes to get some appreciative spotlight in the media but when it comes to an absolute shark of exclusives like Di Marzio, the guy doesn't even need attention as he's already on top of his game and pretty much everyone in the trade knows that.
If he's firm about something then it usually means the target is one paper work away from clinching a deal... That being said everything depends on Woodward now as he was the guy who was mainly behind bringing LvG here in the first place. The mystery continues...
No I think he plays the same system because he actually buys the same kind of players and uses them in the same role everywhere he goes.
That's not entirely true. He is trying to change and adapt to modern times.
Since his time at Real Madrid, he's been trying to implement pressing in the opponent's half and make his sides better in open play. He's not a fan of high pressing but last season we often saw Chelsea in defensive transition trying to create man overloads just above that half way line in order to steal the ball with the winger on the opposite side waiting to attack the space.
That's definitely something new. Another amazing statistic and actually one showing that often Mourinho's reputation proceeds him is that Chelsea in their title winning season (2014-15) were 12th (!!!) in shots from counter attacks in the PL. On the other hand, they scored 52 goals from open play which was the second best record behind City who had one goal more (53).
It's true that in big games he prefers to play it safe but for the most part of last season Chelsea looked very comfortable on the ball. Fabregas spent more time on the attacking half than any deep lying play maker in the league and Hazard had a more or less free role in the final third.
Don't know if my mate is taking the piss but currently not watching BT yet - said Mourinho confirmed he's starting his new job in July????? Anybody heard this? I swear I'll cuss my mate out if he's taking the piss
Edit - Didn't confirm it on camera apparently. Saw a tweet with a report on it...... hope he's coming to us....
Edit - Didn't confirm it on camera apparently. Saw a tweet with a report on it...... hope he's coming to us....
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Mendes can mean many things... Gaitan one of them.
Hopefully it's to us.
finally! a morsel of hope! it's been too long since there were any rumours of any kind.
i'm grasping at straws here, i know
i'm grasping at straws here, i know
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