Said it many times before and I'll keep saying it. We don't need them to win things.
BBC: United hold talks with Mourinho
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Said it many times before and I'll keep saying it. We don't need them to win things.
Mourinho will get us players we need. I trust that we have got a great manager this time.
Pedro, cuadrado, salah
You could do that with any managerPedro, cuadrado, salah
Pedro, cuadrado, salah
Some players fail in the premier league. Thats life. I am sure we will find our players in the summer. Our current players are not rubbish, but we lack someone special.
Half tongue in cheeck since I want him to manage us too, but got to say his list of signings since rejoining chelsea have some serious ultra flops in there. In fact, apart from Diego Costa and Willian, the others have been terrifying...
Look at how he turned them into champs tho.
Fabregas, Matic, Costa, Willian, 4big signings that he'd need to match the likes of here in the summer!
Any drop off those players had is another story.
Pedro, cuadrado, salah
Plenty of us on here wanted Pedro and Cuadrado too.
looking at the over ten million ones I would say most of the big ones have worked out well. Costa, Willian, Fabregas, Matic all played a massive part in winning the title.
In
Diego Costa £32m
Willian £30m
Fabregas £30m
Cuadrado £27m
Matic £21m
Pedro £21m
Schurrle £18m (sold £22m)
Baba Rahman £17.5
Fillipe Luis £16m (sold £11m)
Zouma £12.5m
Salah £11m
Remy £10m
Out
Luiz £40m
Mata £37.5
Lukaku £28m
Schurrle £22m
De Bruyne £17m
Luis £11m
Cech £10m
Bertrand £10m
Luckily not me. I was vehemently against either and preached it to the muppets. The one we got that they hyped is schneiderlin.... Luckily they are not in charge at United.
Did you not once think Fellaini would be a great signing
I wonder if we got Jose we would also be getting the knack for selling our own players for more than peanuts?
That looks horrendous. Fabregas and Matic have worked well for one season, they look average and especially the pizza throwing cnut looks to have a weak mentality. Cuadrado and Luis barely played -> gone. Salah same. Baba looks to be going the same way but that one is on Roman I guess since there were rumors he forced the signing? Remy, wow. Pedro is a nothing player. Schurrle lol.
From the sold ones he did a pogba lite twice.
He did get good money for most, but we don't need the manager to make profit for us.
It was my summer comedy (to myself only) pet project together with Gareth Barry because I was bored and recently admitted as much when I saw this weirdo I forgot the name of who was still praising LvG last week.
Edit: it was santiago kinderbueno lol
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He did better at Madrid when buying players
(Over £10m)
Modric £30m
Coentrao £27.5m
Angel Di Maria £21m
Mesut Ozil £12.4m
Khedira £10.5m
Yes so I am hoping he gets his touch back. But his stint at Chelsea... Not impressed with the transfers he masterminded. But I feel he will have something to prove and all will probably be fine for a while at the very least.
Well it looks like Ibrahimovic will be one of signings this summer so off to a decent start I guess. It is funny that he has the pull to get Ibrahimovich while Moyes couldn't even get Baines to come
The way I see it, United have 2 options
1) hire Mourinho and become a feared force again
2) don't
I don't for a second expect United to do anything but option 2. It's been idiotic decision after idiotic decision since 2013.
1) hire Mourinho and become a feared force again
2) don't
I don't for a second expect United to do anything but option 2. It's been idiotic decision after idiotic decision since 2013.
Fixed it for you.
Yep.
And yep.
I'm also leaning towards us being fecked at the moment.
Why all the pessimism all of a sudden?
Probably because our beloved club is currently a complete and utter mess on and off the pitch. I can't blame some for being pessimistic.
Because one can never put it past our board of idiots to do the most idiotic thing.
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While i'm confident we are hiring Mourinho, what you say is true (maybe not the retard part) it's still the same bunch of feck wits who thought David Moyes was the right man to replace the greatest manager of all time.
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This is IMO the most likely scenario. There's simply no way I see that Mourinho would be allowed to leave Chelsea and be able to join another PL club in the same season
Yeah, it'd be ridiculous for them to not have negotiated a no-compete clause in his contract/termination.
What I think makes me believe that Mourinho is taking over is that neither United or Mourinho are saying a word about the situation. Mourinho, in my opinion would be releasing stories in the press touting himself left right and centre if he hadn't already got something in place. I'm fairly confident there's an understanding that come the end of the season, he will be appointed.
I thought he announced that he had a new club arranged, and would be there next July?
Has he? I've not seen that but fair enough. Sounds promising based on the lack of denial from the United board when it was put to them
Yeah I think he said something to that effect.
The lack of club denial, lack of Mourinho touting himself, and most tellingly - the end of Giggsy's buddies touting him as the successor. All point towards a decision having been made.
When did you know he was the greatest though? When he was hired?
Are you implying that Moyes should have been given more time?
No I was thinking that Mourinho might be the next great thing. Remember there were Fergie out banners.
Mmm... candidate.
Jokes aside I have no idea. Probably Mou out of the available ones.
I know for sure one thing is Mou wanted to stamp his mark on the team so he didn't want to takeover halfway through the season.
"Board of r******"
"tactical cynic"
Holy Moly I don't think I've ever found such an epitome of a redcafe poster as you.
The idea that our board is a bunch of r****** is from what exactly? Because they haven't sacked LVG and replaced him with Mourinho? I mean imagine for one moment the idea that Mourinho has a no-compete clause in his contract. What would you want them to do? What could they do to make LeftyBlaster the tactical cynic happy?
The only reason you are calling them that is because of rumours. We have absolutely NO idea what is going on with the club behind the scenes but instead of letting it play out you have got to go around insulting the club. Things aren't going YOUR way right NOW so obviously everyone at the club is currently suffering mental issues.
What an absolute joke. The decision to not sack LVG could be for a multitude of reasons. Yet simply because it isn't going the way you need it now you're throwing childish derogatory insults around.
Because they should have gotten rid of him long ago. Things are not going well at all on the pitch and that's an understatement and a big part is because they've allowed it to happen. I do realise that we would be risking even more in a caretaker or Giggs if we had done so but getting rid of him back in November/December may have taken the shackles off our players and relieved some of the rot.
Go take your self righteousness somewhere else. You're one to talk about being an epitome of a poster.
Eh what?
Did i know Alex Ferguson was going to go on and become the greatest manager of all time when he took over United when i was 6 years old. No mate i'll hazard a guess and say i didn't make such bold predictions back then in year 3 of primary school.
Like the majority of the Human population i don't claim to have the power to predict the future. So you have to wait until after the fact to judge things like who was the best football manager of all time.
I'm sure you're trying to make some sort of point mate, maybe you can help me out?
This was a really interesting post and apologies for just quoting a single extract but I've read this numerous times on here and am genuinely interested how Pochettino's style is in any way similar to United under Fergie.
At both Southampton and Spurs, Pochettino has played a possession centric style with lots of technical midfield players. The style is closer to United under Van Gaal than Fergie.
When Queiroz was at United they moved to a slightly more possession based game, when they replaced a striker with Veron and moved Scholes to number 10. It wasn't a successful move for numerous reasons.
During the latter years under Fergie, United had very few midfield options and Carrick's partners entered and exited through a revolving door. United's midfield was so weak that in big games they couldn't play their normal system and had to bolster the midfield with Phil Jones or Park which blunted their attacking options. It was certainly not a team that was composed in possession.
United under Fergie was all about forwards and quality attacking players, often ending with 4 strikers on the pitch. Spurs under Pochettino have one striker at the club.
My long winded point here is that Jose Mourinho is the closest manager to Fergie currently in world football. What United has lacked most of all since Fergie left is a winning mentality. Where Spurs throw away a 2-1 lead at home to 10 man Arsenal in a key title decider, Mourinho teams don't do that.
No chance. He has made the squad younger even before the injuries so that Is a ridiculous assumption. You will see mourinho's match winning game plan with flashes of possession football already ingrained in to players heads. Enjoy
Give it a rest. Your original tune was that LVG was laying foundations for a possession based successor (Guardiola). Everybody but your genius self failed to notice this obvious long term plan being hatched. There was no way United would appoint Mourinho because he would ruin all of LVG's possession based foundations.
Now, all of a sudden, playing a completely different style these foundations will benefit Mourinho?
Or could it possibly be that LVG was appointed to win titles and transition an already successful side to his successor and he just did a really bad job at it?
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