BBC: United hold talks with Mourinho

Would you be happy to see Jose Mourinho become next United manager?

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mbb8 said:
Jose also signed a new contract at Chelsea months before he was fired. It's called modern football. Contracts are bullshit.

Perez is crazy, and Zidane isn't realy setting the world on fire.
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Mourinho said something about how he found a lot of the La Liga matches with Madrid too uncompetitve so he preferred the premier league. Why would he want to go to PSG where the league has zero challengers and is over in March?

If he has the choice of us, Madrid and PSG then I would be pretty certain he would pick us. He's clearly a manager who relishes a challenge so I don't know why you think he would be reluctant of taking the job just because it needs some hard work.

Jose on… moving to London

"When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability. They are 19 years old and 16 years old, and with university and their football, they need some stability and the family needs some stability.

"We made a decision three years ago to move back to London. It's an amazing place to be and an amazing place for them to study and search their future and at the same time, for the family to be together so that was the decision. Also because I've experimented with English, Spanish and Italian football - the three top football leagues in the world.

"I always say that I need competition and I need competition every week and in Spain, I was at an amazing club but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona and after that we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1."

Jose on… if it was too easy in Spain

"It was difficult to win because two monsters are together, but it was easy to win matches. Difficult to win the league because you are competing against another team that also win and win and win like you do, so in the end I was champion in Spain with 100 points and I lost a league in Spain with 91 points.

"In England, you can win the leagues with 75 points, maybe less, so I needed competition. We decided to come to London and at the moment, I don't have a job. I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London."

Jose on… his future in football

"As a professional, I'm ready to move, especially because football in London for me in terms of clubs, I need to move."
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Attila said:
Mourinho said something about how he found a lot of the La Liga matches with Madrid too uncompetitve so he preferred the premier league. Why would he want to go to PSG where the league has zero challengers and is over in March?

If he has the choice of us, Madrid and PSG then I would be pretty certain he would pick us. He's clearly a manager who relishes a challenge so I don't know why you think he would be reluctant of taking the job just because it needs some hard work.
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No. You misunderstood me.

I was simply saying Jose has options, to those claiming he needs us.

Im sure he will chose us. Just to feck with Abrahamovic and Chelsea. Jose isn't one to forgive getting sacked twice.
 
Adam-Utd said:
you would choose allegri over mourinho? Absolute BS. You might not like the man but that's ludicrous. Simeone doesn't even speak English either so that isn't going to work.
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I really believe any top manager should be able to to improve Utd
It isn't and shouldn't be an impossible job

What lvg has done is pretty shocking and I can't comprehend it. And Until recently I still kept thinking it could turn for him

I was just pointing out Jose is not nessesarily the only choice although I would be pretty stunned if he doesn't take over
 
AltiUn said:
He did not.
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Attila said:
Nope and neither did our club. Which looks a bit weird because we denied the Guardiola meeting but remain silent on the BBC saying we met Mourinho and an Inter director saying he is coming to Manchester.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-bayern-munich-manager-in-paris-a6826621.html
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/22/manchester-united-pep-guardiola-meeting
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Thanks lads.
I still think it's a done deal. I'm becoming really tired of the Co92 and ex-players championing Giggs.
 
Randall Flagg said:
As has been said Jose has very few options

We could look at simeone, poch or Allegri
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Simeone isn't leaving Atlético. He's made that clear in the past, and in recent months. United have a greater history, and more money than Atlético; but at this moment in time they are a better club on the field, and in the training ground. And not everyone is compelled by money anyway, Simeone could be their Fergie, or Wenger - and he's not going to chuck what he's built to take up a rebuilding job at United (especially when he's a former Atlético player and identifies with the fans).
“Why can’t I be here longer?” Simeone said in El Pais on Monday when asked about leaving Atlético, in an interview conducted before Mourinho’s departure. “Why did I choose a five-year contract? Because I see a club that is ‘virgin’ and Miguel Ángel [Gil Marín, the chief executive] and Enrique [Cerezo, the president] have the ability to open up new sources to strengthen in. It’s not easy to leave Atlético.”

Simeone added: “More than a team we are a family, and we are a real family. Obviously we have internal problems, there are players who get angry and who will get angry because they don’t play. I am the father and the grandfather is a role for Miguel Ángel Gil and Enrique Cerezo.

“We have a potential that no one has. Oblak, Giménez, Vietto, Carrasco, Óliver, Koke, Correa, Saúl, Lucas, Thomas … 10 young players and the veterans are at the perfect age.”
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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/21/diego-simeone-distances-atletico-madrid-exit-chelsea

Pochettino isn't joining either. Real Madrid have been monitoring him since 2013 (was on their shortlist before Ancelotti was appointed) - and, now that's he's proven himself at Tottenham, he's an odds on favorite to manage Madrid starting this summer, or the next summer - at max. Zidane isn't going to last that long.

As for Allegri, the man has never managed outside of Serie A (a lot of tactics don't travel well across leagues), and was rather poor towards the end of his time at Milan - before getting fired midway through the season in 2013. His overall record isn't that impressive either - won barely above 35% games at Cagliari, 50% at Milan, and stumbled upon a great team at Juventus where the groundwork was already laid by Conte. Yes, he did better in Europe, but that doesn't really prove that he is a better manager than Conte - and United are far removed from the organisational stability of Juventus too.

Having a blatant agenda against Mourinho is fair enough - not everyone has to like him; but it's not very prudent when he might be the best, most realistic, proven (over the course of his career at that, before you, or others - point out to this season for the umpteenth time), and (perhaps most important of all) available upper tier manager around.
 
Randall Flagg said:
I really believe any top manager should be able to to improve Utd
It isn't and shouldn't be an impossible job

What lvg has done is pretty shocking and I can't comprehend it. And Until recently I still kept thinking it could turn for him

I was just pointing out Jose is not nessesarily the only choice although I would be pretty stunned if he doesn't take over
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I think a good team and individuals could win any match, but certain players need guidance and told how to play. You can see with our squad currently they badly suffer with van gaals randomness. He changes what he wants from the team far too often, and over works the players until they are dead.

I think motivation is the biggest part of a managers job these days. You can see with klopp he's done nothing special in terms of tactics, but he's got them hungry and believing again, something Fergie was the best at.
 
marlowe78 said:
If we improve down the line and someone comes out with shit about how LVG set the groundwork for it, I'm going to physically assault that person.
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I need to find you the address of Santiago KinderBueno.
 
Zoo said:
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Wish this was coming from another source...

If true, Woodward needs to get his finger out and get that contract on the table asap. Sick of all this going back and forth, if the club wants Jose, Just do it
 
Zoo said:
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Dodgy source withstanding - United really should announce something if they have decided. The entire season post-Nov/Dec has been a preventable disaster and yet some will paint it like LVG deserved a chance to turn it around.
 
Minimalist said:
Dodgy source withstanding - United really should announce something if they have decided. The entire season post-Nov/Dec has been a preventable disaster and yet some will paint it like LVG deserved a chance to turn it around.
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Why? We still have stuff to play for, only just but still, I don't think theres any point confirming to the players that LVG is gone. Its hardly helped City.
 
Minimalist said:
Dodgy source withstanding - United really should announce something if they have decided. The entire season post-Nov/Dec has been a preventable disaster and yet some will paint it like LVG deserved a chance to turn it around.
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Announcing it before the season is over will appear to others that the club is undermining LVG, which is just bad PR that is best avoided.

They'll announce it, but not until the end of the season I think.
 
LeftyBlaster said:
:lol: He's done a supremely excellent job of that himself. We're so crap.
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Fair :lol:

And yes, we are pretty crap. Though we'll be more crap if we announce Mourinho now with the end of the season right around the corner. Not a great look, though admittedly, it's hard for us to look much worse at the moment.

Mourinho will come, we just need patience.
 
What a crappy choice: José, who'll burn the club down; or Ryan, who couldn't even find the matches.
 
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